Film and Speaker Series

RE: Film and Speaker Series
When: 6:30pm Tuesday, October 23
Where: Charlevoix Public Library
What: Filmmaker to present film on Middle East.
Filmmaker, Rebecca Glotfelty, will introduce her feature length documentary "Sucha Normal Thing: A Simple Journey into the Israeli-Occupied West Bank,” Tuesday, October 23 at the Charlevoix Public Library at 6:30 p.m.

In an attempt to deconstruct her preconceived visions, filmmaker, Rebecca Glotfelty, traveled beyond the mainstream news headlines into the heart of the Palestinian West Bank to experience first-hand one of the most pressing conflicts of our time. This provocative documentary introduces the viewer to the Palestinians, Israelis and international striving to non-violently end the occupation. “Sucha Normal Thing” captures the uncertainty of a “normal” day for farmers, children, doctors and other Palestinians living in, and six Americans traveling through, occupied Palestine. The documentary, which was released in 2004, has been widely praised and has been shown at Universities throughout the United States, England and Poland.

Glotfelty has a degree in Broadcast Communications-Video Productions and a B.A in Social Science-International Relations from Michigan State University with cognates in French and Arabic. She studied Standard Arabic in Irbid, Jordan and attended the American University in Cairo in 1992 as a graduate student in Sociology

Since 2003, Glotfelty has spent 9 weeks filming Palestinian life throughout the West Bank. In December 2005, Glotfelty exhibited her photography exhibit, “What I’m Thinking: American Thoughts on the Middle East” at An Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine.

Glotfelty will lead a discussion following the film with Palestinian Peace Activist, Raad Amer.
The program is sponsored by the Little Traverse League for Peace and Freedom. For more information visit http://ltlpf.blogspot.com or call 231-547-2333. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments by donation.

What people are saying about Sucha Normal Thing:
““It was amazing”It captured so brilliantly the day-to-day grind under occupation.” Gila Svirsky, Israeli Peace Activist
“Sucha Normal Thing” would be a valuable addition to any course that introduces the Middle East to American students.”