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Mustafa Abu Ali

Overview

Mustafa Abu Ali ( مصطفى أبو علي) was a Palestinian filmmaker. Abu Ali studied at the University of California-Berkeley in the 1960s before studying cinema in London, graduating in 1967. He is considered one of the founders of Palestinian cinema, and the Palestinian Cinema Association in Beirut in 1973, (re-established in Ramallah in 2004). Along with Sulafa Jadallah and Hani Jowharieh, he established the Palestine Film Unit (PFU)--which saw its primary task as "documenting the revolution and creating an archive of images of historical documents". After the PLO's move to Lebanon after the events of Black September, the PFU was renamed the Palestine Cinema Institute and became one of the seven departments of the PLO's Unified Media. Abu Ali headed the department from 1973 to 1975. Abu Ali wrote four screenplays and directed more than 30 films, for which he won more than 14 awards, the most recent from the 2003 Ismailia Film Festival.

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Acting
1971 Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War Actor 59
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Directing
1977 Tall el Zaatar Directing Director N/A
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1977 Palestine in the Eye Directing Director N/A
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1976 Here and Elsewhere Directing Assistant Director 59
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1974 They Do Not Exist Directing Director 59
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1973 A Zionist Aggression Directing Director N/A
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1973 Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza Directing Director N/A
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1971 With Blood and Soul Directing Director N/A
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1968 No to the Peaceful Solution Directing Director N/A
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