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Produced by: Anna Baltzer and Chun Pan
Filmmaker's Bio
ANNA BALTZER
Anna Baltzer is a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, former-Fulbright
scholar, the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an award-winning
lecturer, author, and activist for Palestinian human rights. As a
volunteer with the
International Women's Peace Service
in the West Bank, Baltzer documented human rights abuses and supported
Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. Baltzer has
appeared on television more than 100 times (including
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,
where she appeared alongside Palestinian presidential candidate and
nonviolence leader Dr. Mustafa Barghouti) and lectured at more than 500
universities, schools, churches, mosques, synagogues, and policy
institutes around the world. Baltzer has contributed to various other
books on the subject, including
Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation and
Letters from Palestine: Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the Power of NonViolence. She is co-founder of the
St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee.
In 2009, Baltzer received the
Rachel Corrie Peace & Justice Award. She serves on the Middle East committee of the
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom and the Board of Directors of The Research Journalism Initiative, Grassroots Jerusalem, and NewPolicy.org.
