{"id":639639,"date":"2013-01-22T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=67864"},"modified":"2013-01-23T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T16:03:02","slug":"jehane-noujaims-the-square-premieres-at-the-sundance-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639639","title":{"rendered":"Jehane Noujaim&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Square&rdquo; premieres at the Sundance Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><form id=\"wpcom-iframe-form-fc99c4e6c03b09a71bb8e47f48ffa76b\"  method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/wpcomwidgets.com\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"frameborder\" value=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"scrolling\" value=\"no\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"resize\" value=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"replace_attributes\" value=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"fallback\" value=\"&lt;p class=&quot;protected-embed-fallback&quot;&gt;This embed is invalid&lt;\/p&gt;\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"width\" value=\"568\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"height\" value=\"426\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_data\" value=\"PGlmcmFtZSBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cua2lja3N0YXJ0ZXIuY29tL3Byb2plY3RzL25vdWphaW1maWxtcy90aGUtc3F1YXJlLWEtZmlsbS1hYm91dC10aGUtZWd5cHRpYW4tcmV2b2x1dGlvbi93aWRnZXQvdmlkZW8uaHRtbCIgaGVpZ2h0PSI0MjYiIHdpZHRoPSI1NjgiIGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyPSIwIj48L2lmcmFtZT4=,4af101587ae10331e8832e02b98c65d1a9674e81\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_tag\" value=\"protected-iframe\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_hash\" value=\"fc99c4e6c03b09a71bb8e47f48ffa76b\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/form>\n<p>\t\t<iframe name=\"wpcom-iframe-fc99c4e6c03b09a71bb8e47f48ffa76b\" width=\"568\" height=\"426\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.getElementById('wpcom-iframe-form-fc99c4e6c03b09a71bb8e47f48ffa76b').submit();<\/script><br \/>\n\t\tOn January 25, 2011, nearly 50,000 Egyptians took to the streets, occupying Tahrir Square. One of their most powerful weapons: cameras, both still and video, to share their story with the rest of the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jehane_noujaim_inspires_a_global_day_of_film.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/216_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Jehane Noujaim wishes for a global day of film\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Jehane Noujaim wishes for a global day of film<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>However, many of these cameras were captured during violent clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim &#8212; who won the TED Prize in 2006 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jehane_noujaim_inspires_a_global_day_of_film.html\">wished for a global day of film<\/a> &#8212; seeks to tell the story of these protestors in her new documentary, <i>The Square<\/i>. The film combines the shocking and powerful footage taken by the protestors themselves, along with Noujaim\u2019s interviews. <i>The Square<\/i> premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday and received a standing ovation. It is in the running for the film festival\u2019s World Cinema Documentary Competition.<\/p>\n<p>But Noujaim does not want <i>The Square <\/i>to be a closed book. She has taken to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/noujaimfilms\/the-square-a-film-about-the-egyptian-revolution?ref=email\">Kickstarter<\/a> to raise funds to finish the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Square<\/em> is a film about a group\u00a0of young Egyptians brought together by a revolution, and who &#8212; together &#8212; find a new sense of hope for their country &#8230;\u00a0[But] two years in, the revolution is far from over,\u201d the Kickstarter page explains. \u201cWe are asking you, the Kickstarter community, to help finish our film. There are so many ways we want to make sure this film really comes to life after it debuts at Sundance &#8230; in Egypt, in the USA, and really around the world \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/bunker_roy.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/cf7e3b6931fc263d3d02c49b5a220799f5222e06_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>At this very moment our team members are on the ground in Egypt, continuing to capture footage of history as it unfolds &#8212; to be included in the <i>final<\/i> final edit of the film. We\u00a0 wrapped up our Sundance edit only <i>days<\/i> ago, but we have more work to do. Your funding will help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Square<\/i> isn\u2019t the only film of Noujaim\u2019s to show at Sundance this year. Her documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2012\/11\/01\/visit-the-barefoot-college-in-a-new-film-from-ted-prize-winner-jehane-noujaim\/\"><i>Rafea: Solar Mama<\/i><\/a> is showing as a part of the festival\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundance.org\/storiesofchange\/\">Stories of Change<\/a>\u201d program this week. This film follows a Jordanian woman who attends\u00a0Bunker Roy\u2019s revolutionary Barefoot College in India, the subject of his 2011 TED Talk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67876\" alt=\"The-Square-still\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/the-square-still.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/67864\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/67864\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=67864&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/qetTQM8qU2Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 25, 2011, nearly 50,000 Egyptians took to the streets, occupying Tahrir Square. One of their most powerful weapons: cameras, both still and video, to share their story with the rest of the world. Jehane Noujaim wishes for a global day of filmHowever, many of these cameras were captured during violent clashes. Filmmaker Jehane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}