Olympia Film Festival: “The Wanted 18”

The Rachel Corrie Foundation (RCF) is pleased to sponsor the documentary film The Wanted 18 at the Olympia Film Society’s 32nd Annual Film Festival Sunday, November 8, at 12 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the festival website and at the historic Capitol Theater, 206 5th Avenue SE, Olympia. Following the noon screening, RCF will host a Q&A with Palestinian director Amer Shomali via Skype. The film is co-directed by Canadian director Paul Cowan.

About the film:
“It’s 1987 and the Israeli army is in hot pursuit of eighteen dairy cows in the town of Beit Sahour, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The cows are declared a threat to Israel’s national security after a group of Palestinians begin producing milk for the town’s residents…Humorous and thought-provoking, The Wanted 18 shows the power of mass mobilization and nonviolent resistance to the Israeli Occupation during the First Intifada…” Read more at the Just Vision website: http://www.justvision.org/wanted18/story