Impact

Just Vision creates high quality films and multi-media tools to equip journalists, community leaders and educators with information, access and content so they can report on, learn from, support or join Palestinian and Israeli civilians working for peace without arms. The following are some of our recent accomplishments. 

  • Just Vision produced an award-winning feature documentary, Encounter Point, that created a global platform for its subjects. Encounter Point premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, received numerous awards, including Best First Documentary, the Audience Award for Best Documentary and Best Musical Score, screened in Dubai, Jerusalem, Gaza, Haifa, Sderot, Tel Aviv, Jenin, New York and in more than 55 festivals and 200 cities around the world.
  • Just Vision’s films have opened countless doors for their protagonists, bringing them to the attention of policymakers in Jordan, Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the United States, Canada, Spain and beyond.
  • Thanks to Just Vision, Palestinian and Israeli civic peacebuilders and nonviolence leaders have been featured on CNN, Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, Channel 10 (Israel), in the New York Times, NPR, TimeOut, the Christian Science Monitor and more. They have also received awards – from Search for Common Ground, and Synergos.
  • Just Vision has brokered relationships among NGOs and activists, including bringing Palestinian journalist Nasser Laham and Palestinian Legislative Council member Jihad Abu Znaid to speak with the Encounter group of rabbincal students; introducing local peacebuilders Tzvika and Ayelet Shahak to Gadi Kenny, which resulted in the ongoing project Minds of Peace; an introduction between prominent Palestinian journalist Nayef Hashlamoun and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in Washington, DC which resulted in an ongoing partnership. We have served as a resource to funders, activists, press and more.
  • Our media and outreach has led to the unlikeliest of meetings. A former militant from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in Jenin saw our film, Encounter Point, on Al Arabiya and was so moved by the message of nonviolence that he approached one of our film subjects to express support. A friendship ensued that received front-page magazine coverage in Yediot Ahronot, the most widely read daily newspaper in Israel. Excerpts of the film were also screened on Al Jazeera and on Israeli TV.
  • Just Vision has generated media coverage about the issue of nonviolent civic peace builders in outlets ranging from National Public Radio and The Oprah Winfrey Show to the Jerusalem Post and the newspaper, Al Quds.
  • Just Vision is raising awareness about the successful nonviolence campaign waged in the West Bank village of Budrus through the release of our new feature documentary film of the same name. Prior to our involvement, Budrus garnered very little print, digital and broadcast coverage in English. Since outreach began for the film, coverage of Budrus has increased exponentially on blogs and in news outlets ranging from Al Arabiya to the Nation.
  • Just Vision is responsible for introducing peacebuilders to persons and organizations of influence including Bishop Desmond Tutu, members of the Canadian Parliament, the Spanish Parliament, the Jordanian Royal Family, the Israeli Education Ministry, the Alliance of Civilizations, the Skoll Forum on Entrepreneurship, the United Nations, the State Department, the German Foreign Ministry and members of the U.S. Congress.
  • Just Vision brought together Arab, Muslim, Christian and Jewish organizations in North America that had never before cooperated to co-sponsor Encounter Point screenings.
  • Just Vision catalyzed a discussion among Fatah movement leaders about strategic nonviolence and media coverage of nonviolent initiatives to end the Occupation, following a screening of Encounter Point.  
  • Just Vision presented our resources to educators and community leaders in the U.S., Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Jordan, including the United States Institute of Peace, American Friends Service Committee, Al Tariq, the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information, the Institute for Democratic Education in America,  and the United Religions Initiative.
  • Just Vision screened Encounter Point on university campuses and with community organizations in the U.S. in order to spark a new conversation that bridges, rather than exacerbates, Arab-Jewish divides.
  • Just Vision received an endorsement for educational use of Encounter Point by the Israeli Ministry of Education and piloted a facilitation workshop and training with Minhal Hevrah V Noar (a division of the Ministry) reaching approximately 11,000 children.
  •  We hosted US-based “Best Practices” facilitation trainings bringing together Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Arab leaders to address the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in North America and co-convened two strategic nonviolence workshops in Palestinian society for local community organizers in partnership with the International Center for Non-Violent Conflict.
  • We screened Encounter Point to hundreds of Israeli youth leaders from the Bnei Hamoshavim youth movement, followed by lively discussions about ways for teenagers to become involved in civic peace building.
  • Just Vision has won awards and industry acclaim for both of our feature documentary films. Budrus recently won the Berlinale's Panorama Audience Award Second Prize and premiered as a red carpet gala screening at the Dubai International Film Festival followed by a keynote speech by Her Majesty Queen Noor.