Boston Palestine Film Festival 2008

Larry Towell is the only Canadian member of the legendary Magnum Photos agency, known for its humanist and universal approach. His curiosity may guide him to the areas of conflict, but his works express a particular sense of intimacy. This documentary reveals the artist and the man through his photographic work and his open meditations on life and the creative process. The film was shot in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, at the border between Mexico and the United States, in New York, and in Southern Ontario, Canada. Towell's breathtaking images are bound together thematically by multiple notions of territory—forbidden territories and territories of refuge, occupied territories and territories of creative release. London Palestine Film Festival 2008, Amnesty Film Festival Vancouver 2007, Docudays Beirut, Lebanon 2008, Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, Mexico 2008, AsoloArtFilmFestival, Asolo Italy, 2008.

Mary Ellen Davis was born in Montreal and has been living in Québec since 1974. Mary Ellen teaches at the Concordia University Mel Hoppenheim Film School. She also helps organize the film and video section at the Présence Autochtone Festival. For more information: Mary Ellen Davis

Photos by Larry Towell, Magnum Photos

Co-presented with the Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF)