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To reach as wide a public as possible, and to encourage reading, discussion and thinking around film in general, and to do so regionally (despite the borders and closures etc) the Palestinian Audio-visual Project (PAV) has come up with the idea of an informal network, whose members would endeavour to show the same film on the same day or within the same week. In return, PAV would provide the following:

  1. A free copy of the film on DVD
  2. Internet and press exposure and publicity
  3. An electronic discussion forum about the film, with information on the programme, titles and filmmakers
  4. Most importantly, we publish on the same day as the screenings or within the same week a serious and well-documented article on the film that is going to be screened, which we would either write ourselves, commission from a writer/critic or translate, with announcements about where it will be screened across the country etc.

This is an entirely voluntary network with no conditions attached except the requirement to set a maximum ticket price (all income would go to the participating club and PAV would not require any payment); to mention PAV and the network on local publicity; and to endeavour to show only films with Arabic subtitles if the member-club requires the network's publicity and support. This means that member-clubs carry on doing their own screenings outside the framework of the network but can benefit from its services whenever they want to. Screenings would take place on Thursday or Saturday (or both) once a month starting at the end of March 2007.

PAV is subtitling a number of classic films into Arabic and publishing them on DVD. We have acquired the non-commercial licenses for these films for Palestine/Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and distribute copies of them to the forty five film clubs which are already in place in schools across Palestine (WB, Gaza and 1948). Titles include work by Lang, Eisenstein, Fellini, Bunuel, Visconti, Rosi and the Taviani Borthers  and others.

We are also supporting the publication of a number of films on Palestinian themes and making copies of these films available to the clubs.