The Learning Project presents Peace by Peace, a film

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The Learning Project & Comforty Media Concepts present:
Peace by Piece – Excerpts from a documentary work-in-progress
by Jacky Comforty

Monroe Public Library
Auditorium
October 24, 2018 7:00 PM

Peace by Piece is a long-term documentary project that highlights activists who are involved in the process of reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. The screening will include excerpts from interviews with German, Israeli and Arab peace educators. The interviews were conducted in 2002, shortly after the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and the outbreak of the Second Intifada.

Following the screening of the clips, Patrick O’Meara, (IU Vice President Emeritus for International Affairs) will lead a discussion of the current prospects for peace.

Annette Klasing: the daughter of Nazi sympathizers in Germany engaged in peace education with people in countries affected by the German aggression.
San’a Abu Asbua: An Arab peace educator from Israel, who talks about her identity in Hebrew.
Abdel Salam Najar: The mayor of a Neve Shalom (Wahat al-Salam), a Jewish-Arab village, that the created a peace school.
Nava Sonnenschein: Director of the Peace School in Neve Shalom talks about its pedagogy.
Jamal Zahalka: Arab Israeli Member of Knesset about his aspirations for an Arab autonomous education system, and the prospects of peace.

Jacky Comforty is an award winning International documentarian residing in Bloomington, who specializes in oral-history-based documentaries about social, educational and human issues.

For more information visit our website, or email Jacky at this address.

More information about Jacky Comforty

Jacky Comforty is an award-winning Multidisciplinary, multicultural, and multilingual filmmaker, oral historian and media creator. Specializing in non-intrusive non-scripted documentation of education and socialization. Created his film independently in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Bulgaria. His groundbreaking work is on Inclusive Education and Holocaust Studies.

The Optimists: the survival of the Bulgarian Jews during WWII www.theoptimists.com. Winner of Berlin Festival Peace Prize, Jewish Experience award in Jerusalem Film Festival, winner of the prestigious CINE award given for In the Shadow of Memory, about intergenerational trauma, and to Through A Glass, Lightly about outsider artists and environment, also winner of The AAM MUSE award.
The Inclusion Series that helped implement inclusive practices in U.S. school districts. One of the videos in the series Step by Step: Heather’s Story was winner of the Chicago International Gold Hugo Award. www.inclusionseries.com

Jacky Comforty is completing these days transfer of hundreds of hours of film and video with oral histories to the Us Holocaust Museum in Washington DC this month.

Over the last 34 years Comforty has collected over 200 interviews with holocaust survivors and was the largest collection of oral histories about the holocaust done by one person. The materials were used for a dozen film and video projects perhaps the most known is “The Optimists: about the Bulgarian Jews and their survival during the Holocaust.

The United States Holocaust Museum will preserve the collection. A great relief for the filmmaker who traveled, back and forth across the ocean, a few times with this collection.

Comforty a resident of Bloomington since 2013, specializes in creating unscripted documentaries based on oral history and documented research process. Over his career Comforty developed interviewing technique that empowers storytelling, and a non-intrusive approach to documentation that is inclusive, insightful and sensitive. Each project deserves it’s own sensitivities gets and a adapted film language, ethics and aesthetics to serve the subject matter, in a critical and captivating manner.

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