Variety: Tibi is exactly the kind of filmmaker that Israel’s New Fund for Cinema and Television hopes to enable with its Greenhouse Women program. The project, launched in early 2014, brings together female Arab and Jewish filmmakers for a yearlong mentored crash course in pitching and peer-to-peer editing. The Greenhouse program plans to soon provide grants averaging about $2,500 to each filmmaker to help them make a completed trailer and a 15-20 minute sample of their projects. Greenhouse also works with the filmmakers to help them apply for coin from local film funds.
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This article shows a fantastic opportunity for women all over the world to show their stories to a broader, more receptive audience. I just wish I knew where to watch these films, and how I could find them if they were distributed to the American public. The television and film corporations in the U.S. have a hard time importing a lot of foreign films into generally watched cinema. Only if you're in a flagship city like New York or Chicago do you get to go into a small film house and watch indie movies for a bit of money. I'm glad that these women have the new freedom to tell the truths of their lives, especially when they feel they have something to show and share with the larger world, but the second part of their story starts with spreading it to a larger audience. We, as the viewing public, won't care about an issue or a piece of theatre if it isn't sort of shoved in our faces. We're so used to the outburst of media and advertisement that smaller, less corporate films get shoved under the rug--unless they're backed by corporations like the Weinstein Company or they've won at least five film festival awards.
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