STORY
Sajed, a 30 year-old inline skater from Qalqilya, Palestine, hustles as a barber to make ends meet so that he can devote time to his true passion: mentoring a group of young mavericks that skate, do parkour, and perform beatbox and hip-hop.Calling themselves the “X-Games”, they and Sajed feel isolated, caught between the concrete walls of occupation and the cultural barriers of their conservative society that do not understand their activities. And yet Sajed dreams of opening a club where he can train kids to learn how to fly.
Sajed and the X Games take us on an adventure throughout the West Bank and into Israel, where we see them perform in various venues. Their flying, flipping and rhyming become gateways to this new-found freedom, giving them access to places that they would have otherwise never been invited to go.
Their goal, and the goal of the film, is to build the first skatepark in Palestine, in Qalqilya.
MUSIC
We are also very excited to be working with Palestinian composer and multi-instrumentalist Tareq Abboushi. Once we joined forces with Tareq, it became apparent we had the opportunity to do more than just make a soundtrack for the film. Bringing together the music of the underground hip-hop scene in Palestine and the beats and rhymes from the kids in the film – all glued together by Tareq’s multi-dimensional artistry , we plan on making an album that celebrates the energy of youth in Palestine.
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Abel is a New York based artist working with photography, video and film. His work has been exhibited throughout New York and internationally, including shows at Galapagos Art Space, Rush Arts Gallery, 3rd Ward, Photoville, Broadway Gallery and the Aronson Gallery at Parsons, The New School for Design. Abel’s work can be seen at www.adamabelstudio.com
In 2011, Abel began traveling to Palestine to research his latest works. In addition to QALQILYA, Abel created a nine-channel video installation, called PALESTINE INTERRUPTED, that uses narratives from Palestine to disrupt narratives about Palestine. Abel’s curatorial work includes an art and performance space he founded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2001 called Spa_e . In 2003 he helped form a photographic gallery in Sag Harbor, NY called Thinking Images.
Abel taught as an adjunct instructor at Lehman College (CUNY) from 2007-2010. He completed an MFA in Photography and Related Media at Parsons, The New School For Design in 2012.
Mohammad Othman – Producer
Othman is a project manager and campaign organizer in Ramallah, Palestine. Having been with Adam from the very beginning, he has worked as the co-producer, line producer, assistant director, photographer, sound engineer, fixer and translator on QALQILYA. Othman worked for over 10 years as a founder and coordinator for various NGOs around the West Bank. As a tour guide, his client’s have included former American President Jimmy Carter and former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Since leaving his work as a community organizer, Othman has been working as a producer for QALQILYA and a line producer for other independent filmmakers working in the West Bank. His work on How Palestinian Bloggers Cover Protests in Their Own Villages by filmmaker Leeor Kaufman was recently published by Time.
Adam Abel and Mohammed Othman during production of QALQILYA