Slingshot Hip Hop
Directed by Jackie Reem Salloum
2008, 80 minutes
Slingshot Hip Hop will have its World Premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Slingshot Hip Hop will be shown in New York City as part of the New Directors/New Films Festival:
Saturday April 5, 9:00 p.m.
Sunday April 5, 4:30 p.m.
Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.
About the Film
A new generation slings rhymes instead of rocks as Palestinian rappers form alternative voices of resistance within the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Interweaving multiple stories of young Palestinians in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, filmmaker Jackie Reem Salloum spotlights a vibrant hip hop scene as emerging artists discover rap and employ it as a means to surmount age-old schisms deepened by occupation and poverty.
Director/Producer/Editor’s Bio
Jackie Reem Salloum is a New York-based artist and filmmaker. Drawing on her Palestinian and Syrian roots, her pop-infused work focuses on challenging the stereotypes of Arabs in the media. She has directed several shorts exploring this issue, including Planet of the Arabs, which received the International Editing Award at the 2005 CinemaTexas Film Festival and was an official selection in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. After receiving her MFA from New York University, Salloum began directing SlingShot Hip Hop. Five years in the making, it is her first feature-length documentary. Salloum’s work is also the basis of a youth education program on Palestine/Israel, and she frequently speaks at universities and conferences internationally.
Click here to read an interview with Jackie Salloum, Director of Slingshot Hip Hop
