Born in the village of Daliat el Carmel, Adwan studied film and TV at Tel Hai College in Israel. Over the years he collaborated with some of Israel’s leading filmmakers, including Eitan Harris, and Ali Nasser.
His first feature film, Wana Wahdi, was produced by Al Jazeera in 2009. Since he has created documentaries and shorts for cinema and TV, as well as wrote and directed for theater, including the award winning plays I do not feel, which received Honorable Mention Award at the Acre Festival in 2011.
Arabani is Adwan’s first feature film.

Gina Angelone is an established filmmaker with a history in documentary and television production. Her television work has received both a Cable Ace award and an Emmy nomination.
Gina’s television credits include Producer of Bravo’s“Inside the Actors Studio”; creator and writer Comedy Central’s“Music Shorts” and Writer/Producer/Director of “Connections: Preserving America’s Landscape Legacy” (narrated by Angela Lansbury), for PBS.
In 2005, Gina’s feature documentary René & I,” about twin survivors of human experimentation in Auschwitz, won two Audience Awards, a Human Rights Award and a Special Jury Mention in international festivals and aired on NBC. Currently, Gina is shooting an on-going biography series on master landscape designers, and her film, “Geo Portrait Earth,” is part of a travelling exhibit LandSeaAir, a 400-year sonic history of earth (with Charles Morrow Associates).
Gina created the centerpiece film for the Hall of Planet E

Mohammad Bakri was born in the Arab village of Bi’ina (see Shaghur) in the Galilee in 1953. He went to elementary school in his hometown and received his secondary education in the nearby city of Acre. He studied acting and Arabic literature at Tel Aviv University in 1973 and graduated three years later. Bakri began his professional acting career in plays in several theaters in Israel and the West Bank notably the Habima National Theatre in Tel-Aviv, the Haifa theater and al-Kasaba theater in Ramallah. After a few years of acting in Israeli film, Bakri began to act in international films in nations such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Canada. Bakri also directed two documentary films including the controversial “Jenin, Jenin” and most recently the autobiographical documentaries “Since You Left”, and “Zahara”.

Peter Alexander Beinart is an American political comentator. A former editor of The New Republic, he has written for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books among other periodicals, and is the author of three books. He is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York, senior political writer for The Daily Beast and the editor of its blog “Open Zion”.

Born in Jaffa, Palestine, but his family fled to the United Kingdom in 1948 at the creation of the State of Israel when he was four.Dulaine began to dance at the age of 14, performing in venues ranging from Germany, East Africa and the Caribbean. By 1972, Pierre ended up in New York City, where he still maintains a home.
In 1984 Pierre and his dancing partner Yvonne founded The American Ballroom Theater Company and as the Artistic Directors they performed with the company all over the USA, at Saddlers Wells in London, and numerous countries around the world. The New York Times dubbed Pierre a “Dancer and Teacher Extraordinaire.” In addition to teaching and being on the faculties of George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre and the Juilliard School, Pierre founded Dancing Classrooms in 1994 to build social awareness, confidence, and self- esteem in children through the practice of social dance.
In 2005 Ma

Morad is a New York-based entrepreneur and former athlete. His career began in financial services with Goldman Sachs. He went on to join leading management consulting firm to the financial services industry, First Manhattan Consulting Group Morad’s focus in recent years has been on innovative, progressive real estate. Going one step further than green real estate, Morad co-founded Delos Living. Working alongside world-class institutions and experts, Delos has created Wellness Real Estate™, which is being recognized as a paradigm shift not just within real estate and sustainability, but health and wellness. Morad is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative and the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s Business Council; Morad also serves on the Board of Soccer for Peace.

Tal Harris, from Tel Aviv Israel, is the Executive Director of OneVoice Israel (OVI). Tal is responsible for overseeing all OVI programming, including grassroots campaigns, educational events, and political advocacy. Under Tal’s leadership, OneVoice Israel’s human infrastructure has grown and spread to ten university and college campuses across Israel. Through these chapters, activists committed to ending the conflict are recruited, trained, and mobilized in order to propel their elected representatives to take concrete steps towards peace.
Tal played an instrumental role in establishing the first caucus for the two-state solution in the previous Israeli Knesset, and also coordinated the formation the new caucus for ending the Israeli-Arab conflict in the current Knesset, which is comprised of eight coalition and opposition factions, and promotes legislation, petitions, and public events focused on the two-state solution. In his role as Executive Director, Tal has spoken in num

Daniel Kedem is an award winning cinematographer residing in Israel and working globally. At age 15, after a working in construction, grocery delivery, citrus fruit picking and gardening, he got a job as an electric on a TV show and it’s been a slippery slope ever since.
Over the years, Daniel has managed to combine his love of film with travel and adventure. Film projects have taken him to dozens of countries on five continents. While not filming, he has managed to cover several thousand miles overland across the globe, hitchhiking across Patagonia and Mongolia and hopping on and off the Trans Siberian train.
As a cinematographer, Daniel is pleased to work in both the narrative and documentary worlds, receiving different and complimentary gratification from them. He was twice awarded the best cinematography award at the DocAviv film festival (Long Distance – 2009; Under the Rug – 2011). More recently, the film The Garden of Eden, which he shot, received wide critical praise f

Makram J. Khoury is an Israeli Arab, born 30 May 1945 in Jerusalem.
Khoury trained in Israel and from 1970 to 1973 he studied for three years at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England. He later became involved with the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and the Haifa Municipal Theater, continuing as a member of the latter for twenty years.
Makram has recently returned to Haifa following a year long tour playing Tierno Bokar in Peter Brook’s 11 and 12.
His acting filmography includes a long list of award-winning films by renowned directors of international productions, including The Syrian Bride by Eran Riklis, Free Zone by Amos Gitai, Munich by Steven Spielberg,
Miral by Julian Schnabel and many more.
He was the youngest artist and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest civic honor in Israel. He is one of the most accomplished and well-known Israeli actors.
Most recently, Makram was awarded Best Actor by the Israeli Film A

In addition to feature films, produced documentaries movies, dramas and television programs.

A Peabody Award-winning director and producer. Hilla has received three Emmy nominations, and won the Golden Warsaw Phoenix, as well as the jury awards at FIPA, audience award at Woodstock Film Festival. Hilla’s most recent film “Dancing in Jaffa” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, won the editing award at Docaviv and is expected to have its theatrical release in 2014 in the US, France, Germany and Israel. Past projects include “To Die in Jerusalem” (HBO), “After the Storm” (MTV), “Happy You’re Alive” (ch1 Israel) and “Numbered” (YES) which won the Silver Hugo at Chicago International Film Festival. Hilla’s latest film is “Web Junkie” which she co-directed and produced, the film won the Honorable Mention in the Jerusalem film festival. Hilla is the co-owner of New York based, kNow Productions. She holds an M.A. from Southern Illinois University.

Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan. Moore is the Oscar and Emmy-winning director of the ground-breaking, record-setting films “Roger & Me,” “Bowling for Columbine,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which also won the top prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and went on to become the highest grossing documentary of all time. It became the first documentary ever to premier No. 1 at the box-office in its opening weekend. Film Comment called it “The Film of the Year.”
His 2007 documentary, “Sicko” is self described as, “a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on Earth.” Moore investigated American health care horror stories, focusing on large American pharmaceutical companies, the corruption in the Food and Drug Administration, and even brought injured 9/11 rescue workers to Cuba to receive treatment.
Moore also earned the label of America’s No. 1 selling nonfiction author, with such books as “Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State

In 2000 Diane founded Tiara Blu Films. Since then, she has produced numerous films, including Take The Lead, starring Antonio Banderas and Narc, written and directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Ray Liotta and Jason Patric. She executive-produced The Brass Teapot starring Juno Temple and Michael Angarano and Gray Matters starring Heather Graham, Sissy Spacek and Alan Cumming. Nabatoff has also executive produced many TV and theater successes. In addition, Diane produces the annual LA Human Rights Watch theatrical production, Cries From The Heart.
Prior to founding Tiara Blu Films, Diane was a Producer at Interscope Communications, where she developed and produced films that include: Very Bad Things, written and directed by Pete Berg and starring John Favreau, Cameron Diaz and Jeremy Piven; The Proposition starring Kenneth Branagh, Madeleine Stowe and William Hurt; Operation Dumbo Drop, directed by Simon Wincer and starring Danny Glover, Ray Liotta and Denis Leary; Se

Lee Perlman is the Executive Director of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) in Israel. Manhattan born and bred, Lee has lived in Israel since 1982. Ha’aretz newspaper recently named him as one of “Israeli Culture’s 100 Most Influential Figures”. Lee is a Research Fellow on Israeli Culture at the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University. He received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, writing his dissertation on Israeli theater, “Acting Side by Side on the Israeli Stage: Jewish/Palestinian Theatre Collaboration in Israel from 2000-2010”. Lee has published and lectured extensively on Israeli society and the local cultural scene, including co-writing a chapter with Dr. Aida Nasrallah, ‘Weaving Dialogues and Confronting Harsh Realities: Engendering Social Change in Israel through Performance’ in “Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of the Conflict.” Previously, Lee served as the Managing Director in Israel of the Jewish Federations o

After studying philosophy and literary theory at Tel Aviv University, Ilan Safit completed a Master’s degree in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from SUNY Buffalo and teaches philosophy at Pace University, NYC, where he is also the director of the Center for Ethical Thinking. In addition he is Chief Editor of Yediot America, the Hebrew language, New York based weekly magazine of Israel’s largest newspaper.

Ari Shavit is a leading Israeli columnist and writer. Born in Rehovot, Israel, Shavit served as a paratrooper in the IDF and studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jersualem. In the 1980s he wrote for the progressive weekly Koteret Rashit, in the early 1990s he was chairperson of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and in 1995 he joined Haaretz, where he serves on the editorial board. Shavit is also a leading commentator on Israeli public television. He is married, has a daughter and two sons, and lives in Kfar Shmariahu.

Bob Simon is among a handful of elite journalists who have covered most major overseas conflicts and news stories from the late sixties to the present, earning an unprecedented number of awards in the process. He has been contributing regularly to 60 Minutes since 1996. At the same time, he was a correspondent for all seven seasons of “60 Minutes II,” from January 1999 to June 2005, after which he became a full-time 60 Minutes correspondent. The 2013-14 season is his 18th on the broadcast.
Simon’s foreign coverage has appeared on all CBS News broadcasts and has earned him scores of other major awards. His 24 Emmys may be the most held by a journalist for field reporting.
He won electronic journalism’s highest honor, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, for “Shame of Srebrenica,” a “60 Minutes II” report on heinous acts of genocide during the Bosnian War.
Simon was named CBS News’ chief Middle Eastern correspondent in 1987, where he distinguished himself as the p

Mouna is an artist whose first foray into filmmaking was with “It’s Better To Jump.”
She played a central role in the project. A Palestinian herself, she is fluent in both Arabic and English and served not only as a translator and interviewer, but also as a Producer, gaining access and entrée to people and places that would otherwise be inaccessible.
Her collateral as a native and her insights into the culture created an instant bond of trust with all the interviewees. Mouna is very dedicated to the subject matter as well as a steadfast researcher.

Irit Gal has directed numerous documentary films, dealing with violation of human rights and the impact of political conflicts on individuals. Gal directed films in the occupied Israeli territories, documented areas affected by natural disasters, was the head editor of numerous television programs and was the director of the documentary department of Telad (Israel Channel 2).
Her films have been screened and won prizes in international film festivals.

Journalist &Deputy Director at Merchavim, the Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel.
A Jaffa native, married to Suzy and father of 3 kids, Ali holds a BA degree in Political sciences from the Open University in Tel Aviv, and an MA in History of the Middle East from the Tel Aviv University. For 4 years he served as the Principal of the high school at the College des Freres in Jaffa where he himself was graduated in 1991.
Ali worked for three years as the Municipal Correspondent in Jaffa for Hai’r, Haaretz’ local supplement in Tel Aviv. Between June 2000 and January 2011 Ali was the Arab and Palestinian Affairs Correspondent of Ynet (Yedioth Ahronot news website). He is also the Middle East and Israel Affairs analyst of several international media. Since March 2012 he is the Deputy Director and Head of the Kulanana society – building initiative at Merchavim, the Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel.
In September 2013, Ali won

Rabbi Melissa Weintraub is a social entrepreneur, educator, and thought leader who trains leaders and builds programs at the intersections of Israel, Jewish thought and conflict resolution. Among other projects, Melissa is currently directing the Jewish Council for Public Affair’s new national Civility Initiative, working to transform communal norms around Israel and other charged issues from tension and avoidance to productive deliberation across political divides. Melissa was the founding director of Encounter, an organization dedicated to strengthening the capacity of the Jewish people to be agents of change in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Melissa built Encounter from the ground up to an internationally recognized organization, and was awarded the Grinnell Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize honoring individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in effecting social change. Melissa has lectured and taught in hundreds of Jewish communal institution

Brenda Bodenheimer Zlatin is a Senior Program Officer at the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation in Baltimore, MD. Her portfolio includes numerous grants to promote shared society and equality between Jews and Arabs in Israel, with a particular focus on coexistence in the Negev. Before joining the foundation in 2001, Brenda held progressively responsible positions at the New Israel Fund, an international philanthropy that promotes democracy, human rights and civil society in Israel. Brenda returned to the U.S. in 1999 to attend a mid-career professional development program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In addition to the Master of Public Policy she received from Princeton in 2000, Brenda holds a Master of Arts in Religion (1987) from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion (1980) from Princeton University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Brenda lives in New Jersey with her