Muayad Mousa Alayan is a Jerusalem-based Palestinian filmmaker and cultural activist. His first documentary, Exiles in Jerusalem, won a Kodak award in San Francisco in 2005 and has been screened at a number of international film festivals including the City Shorts Film Festival in San Francisco, the Cinema Arabe Film Festival in Amsterdam, the Toronto Alucine Latino Film Festival and the Boston Palestine Film Festival. His experimental short, I am You Are (2004), has been screened at the 2008
Jerusalem International Film Festival, celebrating the Jerusalem Cinemateque’s “I Am You Are” cinema workshop for Arab and Jewish teenagers of which Alayan was a early participant prior to attending film school at the City College of San Francisco in 2003.
Alayan is the initiator and designer of a series of filmmaking workshops for youth in Jerusalem and the West Bank. He is also directing a TV debate show at the Bethlehem Media Center – a show titled “Echoes of Life” which is broadcast on all local TV channels. Alayan also teaches cinematography and lighting at Dar Al Kalima College. He is currently in the script development phase for his next film and first feature.
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