Emad Burnat talks about how he progressed from filming his newborn to teaming with an Israeli to create '5 Broken Cameras,' a documentary about his village's fight against Israeli occupation.
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| West Bank farmer turned filmmaker Emad Burnat, 41, near the village of Bilin in the West Bank. His movie "5 Broken Cameras" is nominated for an Oscar in the documentaries category. (Edmund Sanders / Los Angeles Times / February 2, 2013) |
February 2, 2013
BILIN, West Bank — Like many Palestinians, West Bank farmer Emad Burnat punctuates his life story with events from the Israeli occupation of his village.
His first son was born amid the optimism that followed the 1993 Oslo peace accords, and another came just as the 2000 Palestinian uprising erupted.
His youngest, Gibreel, was born the same week that Israel began constructing a separation barrier through his hometown of Bilin. That's when Burnat got his first camera, initially to capture his newborn, but later to document his village's fight against the Israeli military and nearby settlers.
It was the first of five cameras he would use, all destroyed during filming by bullets, tear-gas canisters or angry settlers....READ MORE
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