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Driving to Zigzigland
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Winner of Best Film Award at Amal Film Festival, Spain Winner of Best Actor Award at Amal Film Festival, Spain Winner of Audience Award at Arabian Sights Film Festival A chronicle of a day in the life of a Palestinian cab driver in Los Angeles, Driving to Zigzigland portrays the social struggleof the arab immigrant in post 9/11 America. Shot in Los Angeles and Palestine, based on true stories. Filmmaker Bio: Born and raised in Washington DC, Nicole received a BA in Film from American University in 1997 and underwent a Master of Arts program in Islamic and Social Sciences from the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Virginia in 1999. In 2002, Nicole formed BintFilm as a production company dedicated to filmmaking for the mass conscience. Nicole’s screenwriting and directorial debut launched in 2006 for the political comedy feature film, DRIVING TO ZIGZIGLAND. DRIVING TO ZIGZIGLAND premiered in competition, at Cairo International Film Festival in November 2006. Since a year after its completion, the film has received over thirty festival invitations and received multiple awards. Nicole was selected as a screenwriter fellow for the Sundance Institute - Royal Jordanian Film Commission 2nd Middle East Screenwriter’s Lab in November 2006 for her screenplay, SLEEPING ON STONES. The screenplay was also selected for the 2007 Cannes Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders Programme. Nicole’s carries a 15-year background as a producer and assistant director on narrative films and she currently serves as President of Cinevolve Studios, a film distribution company in Los Angeles.
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Knowledge is the Beginning
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Winner of 2006 International Prime Time Emmy for Arts Programming Chronicles the creation of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a collaboration between world-renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian writer Edward Said. It brings together young musicians from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia and Israel. Said has remarked that the orchestra was “one of the most important things I have done in my life.” For Barenboim, it’s a metaphor for what could be achieved in the Middle East.
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