Hisham Zreiq | |
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Born | Nazareth, Israel | 9 February 1968
Other names | Hisham Zrake |
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, film director, producer, animator, screenwriter, software architect and poet |
Years active | 1994–present |
Awards | Al-Awda Award for Best Documentary Film 2008 The sons of Eilaboun |
Website | http://www.hishamzreiq.com |
Hisham Zreiq (Arabic: هشام زريق, Hebrew: הישאם זרייק; born 9 February 1968), also spelled Zrake, is a Palestinian-Israeli Independent filmmaker, poet, animator and visual artist. He began working in computer art in 1994, and in 1996 started exhibiting his work in galleries and museums.[1] In 2007 he filmed his first documentary, The Sons of Eilaboun, and in 2008 he created the short film Just Another Day, dealing with the life of Arabs living in western world after the September 11 terror attacks.[2] He uses his poetry and visual art in his films, as in Just Another Day,[3] and was a member of the Culture Unplugged film festival panel.[4] In 2018 Zreiq contributed to the book An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba by writing a chapter based on the interviews from his documentary The Sons of Eilaboun.[5] In 2023 he started a music project called 'Goddess Asherah' [6]