Hana Elias

Hana is a Palestinian-American documentary filmmaker and journalist. Her work explores the interrelationships between land and identity in the Middle East and the United States. She aims to center the perspectives of people from underrepresented backgrounds as they imagine alternative realities. This ranges from her first film, The Rooftops of Jerusalem, a coming of age story about Palestinian parkour players in Jerusalem’s old city, and Holding Fire, about a grassroots movement of Muslim immigrant women fighting for their rights in the New York City political arena. She has been working on documentaries for the last 8 years, as a video editor, camera person, and associate producer, and is a Video News fellow at Democracy Now.