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Sulafa Jadallah

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  • Страна местожительства: Syria
  • Пол: Female
  • Born in: 1941
  • key_age: 82
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Sulafa Jadallah (1941-2002), a Palestinian photographer, born in the city of Nablus, grew up in a patriotic family open to life, raising her sons and daughters on initiative and giving, as she received her education at Al-Aishiya School, and her passion for photography was her way of expressing her love for her city, motivating her to take dozens of Pictures from the details of the city to make an integrated picture of Nablus. It is worth mentioning that the late Sulafa was taught by her older brother, Rama Jadallah, who was one of the pioneers of photography in Palestine, as he began his career in the world of photography and drawing in the forties of the last century in the city of Nablus, then he established the most famous studio in the city, known as Rama’a Studio in advance. We have a distinguished model in the art of photography. In the late fifties, Sulafa took the initiative with her brother Rama, who accompanied their love of photography, and some amateurs to form an association for the arts, and from here Sulafa set out in the early sixties, to be among the first girls who aspired to complete their university education in the field of cinematography, and headed towards the Film Institute in Cairo , which was still in its infancy. Cinematography at that time was a rare and difficult profession, and Sulafa had to fight a battle against the male mentality that limited this type of technical and professional specialization to men, but she was able to convince them of her ability and artistic merit.

her life
Jadallah enrolled as a student at the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo, majoring in cinematography. Sulafa succeeded in gaining the trust of her teachers to be chosen to participate in directing and filming the Egyptian film “The Mountain”, with the well-known Egyptian director of photography Wahid Farid, to graduate in 1964 from the Higher Institute of Cinema as the first Arab cinematographer. She was among the first cohort to graduate from this specialization. After her graduation, she worked as a cinematographer at the Jordanian Ministry of Information. She had a major role in establishing the modern Palestinian cinematic work, as she, with the Palestinian cinematographer Hani Jawhariyyah, filmed a large number of events of the Palestinian revolution and struggle. She also worked on the first The films of what is now known as the “Palestinian Revolution Cinema”, and she was one of those who contributed to the establishment of the Department of Photography and Archiving of the events, battles and operations that the revolutionaries fought during that period. Sulafa began filming Palestinian fighters and revolutionaries, and when the June 5, 1967 war occurred, she, along with Palestinian cinematographer Hani Jawhariyya, filmed the events and effects of that war and the tragedy of the Palestinian exodus that occurred during it. In the same year, she established, with Hani Jawhariyyah and film director Mustafa Abu Ali, a photography department that films all the activities of the Palestinian revolution and the events surrounding it, which developed in the year 1968 after the Battle of Karama into a cinematic unit that documents all Palestinian events, especially the activities of the Palestinian political, military, social and cultural revolution. In audio and video, this unit was later known as the “Palestine Film Unit” and in 1969 produced the first Palestinian struggle cinema films “No to a Peaceful Solution.” In the same year, Sulafa was shot in the head while she was filming, which left her paralyzed, which prevented her from walking. Continue to work as a cinematographer.

its business
Filming “The Mountain” with Waheed Farid.

The film “No to a Peaceful Solution”with Mustafa Abu Ali, which is a 20-minute documentary film and is considered the first film of the Palestinian revolution.

Her name was given to the award of the Fifth Women's Film Festival, which is granted by the Palestinian Screens Foundation, as it was won by the international Palestinian director Maryse Gargour and the Lebanese director Nabiha Lutfi.

her death
The creative Sulafa Jadallah passed away in Damascus in 2002, leaving an honorable imprint in the film sector in Palestine that everyone will remember. The same prize for which the award was named, and also for the British director Kim Longinoto, then in 2006 for the Palestinian director from Nazareth “Nada Al Yasir” and in 2007 for the Indian Canadian director “Diba Mahta” and in the fourth session 2008 for the Lebanese director Randa Chahal Sabbagh, and in In the fifth session 2009, the Palestinian-French director Maryse Gargour and the Lebanese Nabiha Lutfi were honored and equally awarded the festival award. In the sixth session 2010, the Lebanese director Henny Srour won the award, and in the seventh session the award was withheld. As for the eighth session, the editor Rabab Haj Yahya won it.

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