About Annemarie Jacir
Annemarie Jacir (Arabic: آن ماري جاسر; born 1975 in Bethlehem, Palestine) is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, and film producer. == Career == Jacir was born to a Christian family in Bethlehem, Palestine, in 1975. She spent her childhood and youth in Saudi Arabia and later moved to the United States for her academic education. In 2002, she received her Master of Fine Arts from the Columbia University School of the Arts. === Filmmaking === Jacir has been working in independent cinema since 1998 and has written, directed and produced a number of award-winning films. Two of her films have premiered as Official Selections in Cannes, one in Berlin and in Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Telluride. All three of her feature films were selected as Palestine's Oscar Entry for Foreign Language Film. Her short film, Like Twenty Impossibles was the first Arab short film to ever be an official selection of the Cannes International Film Festival and went on to be a Student Academy Awards Finalist, winning more than 15 awards at International festivals including Best Film at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, Chicago International Film Festival, Institute Du Monde Arabe Biennale, Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, and IFP/New York. like twenty impossibles was named one of the ten best films of 2003 by Gavin Smith of Film Comment Magazine. In 2007, Jacir shot the first feature film by a Palestinian woman director, Salt of this Sea, the story of a working-class American woman whose parents were Palestinian refugees, making her first visit to her family's homeland.
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