Rouane Itani » Documentary films http://blog.aflama.com Documentary film in progress about Lebanese women in politics Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:40:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 after the trip.. http://blog.aflama.com/2009/07/26/after-the-trip/ http://blog.aflama.com/2009/07/26/after-the-trip/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:12:43 +0000 Rouane http://blog.aflama.com/?p=85 What started like a confusion production direction, turned to be quite fruitful.

I interviewed executives from different organizations who had been working on the women’s quota proposal that was submitted to the parliament.

Interviewed a professor expert on the topic who filled in the historical context. Wanting to film Broll of students on campus, I was sent to get a permit. As I walked into his office and explained what I need to film, we realized we knew each other in undergrad many moons ago. It was a fun surprise and made the shoot easy.

]]> http://blog.aflama.com/2009/07/26/after-the-trip/feed/ 1 DC to Philly http://blog.aflama.com/2009/05/26/dc-to-philly/ http://blog.aflama.com/2009/05/26/dc-to-philly/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 09:18:35 +0000 Rouane http://blog.aflama.com/?p=48 Left from National on US Air heading to Paris through Philly.

Stuck my camera bag in the overhead on the plane. As soon as I sat down, the young woman next to me interjected: “You’re a filmmaker!” Very surprised I said yes. She had noticed my porta brace bag. Turns out she herself is a documentary filmmaker. She made a film in Ghana and had returned from the Visions du Reel festival in Switzerland where her film screened. She also won Silverdocs!

The hour from DC to Philly went by so fast, chatting about our films, trips, festivals. Akosua Adoma studied in LA and now lives in VA. I promised to attend her film “Mebroniba”/My White Baby. screening at Silverdocs upon my return.

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