Crossroads Catalogue 2009

Tashkeel AFC ProductionsCompany ProfileWith a cumulative experience since 1989, Tashkeel was spun off from a successful film collective inwhich Jordan’s leading indie production group claimed the top spot for non-TV dramatic productions.Tashkeel has produced an award-winning list of short films such as “The View”, “Sharar”, “Overdose”,“Growing Up”, “Uncivil Liberties”, “What a Job”, and more. Since its founding, Tashkeel has assisted in themaking of over 40 short fiction, non-fiction, animation, and experimental productions.JORDANProducers’ ProfileHazim Bitar is a Palestinian-Jordanian producer, writer, and director. He founded the Amman FilmmakersCooperative, which serves as the launching pad for some of Jordan’s leading independent filmmakers.Since its founding, the Cooperative has provided cinema education to hundreds of Jordanians andPalestinians, mainly in disadvantaged areas. His credits include numerous award-winning documentariesand films; his cooperative has produced short films that have been selected to various Academy-certifiedshort film festivals. Bitar served on the international jury of the academy-certified Tampere InternationalFilm Festival. Bitar is the founder and director of the Jordan Short Film Festival (JSFF), established in 2005with the main purpose of giving voice to Jordanian and Arab indie filmmakers. He is invited frequentlyto international forums to speak on independent cinema in Jordan. In 2007, L’ Institut Français du Proche-Orient, a prominent French think tank on the Middle East, named Bitar as one of 27 influential Jordanianfigures.Hazim BitarProducerContactAddress: PO Box 2174, Amman 11821 JORDANM: +962.776.400.434Hazim.Bitar@gmail.comhttp://JordanianFilms.comFilmographyWinds of Change (short), 2009Thyme Goes On (short), 2009The View (short), 2008 co-directorSharar (short), 2006 co-directorGrowing Up in Amman Suburbia(short doc), 200631