"Slingshot Hip Hop" trailer - in UK Cinemas Sunday 13th March 2011 - Starring: Tamer Nafar, Suhell Nafar, Mahmoud Jreri, Mahmoud Shalabi, Mohammed Al Farra

Uploaded by youboob83 on Mar 31, 2006

Trailer for a documentary about Palestinian hiphop.

Clip from http://slingshothiphop.com/

Palestinian Hip Hop linkage:

Free the P
http://freethep.com/

Ramallah Underground
http://www.ramallahunderground.com/

Iron Sheik
http://www.ironsheik.biz/

The Nomads
http://www.thenomads.biz/

Fredwreck
http://fredwreck.com/

The Philistines
http://www.thephilistines.com/

Slingshot Hiphop
http://www.slingshothiphop.com/

ArabRappers.net
http://www.arabrappers.net/

DAM
http://www.dampalestine.com/
http://www.myspace.com/damrap

Slingshot Hip Hop

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Directed by     Jackie Reem Salloum
Release date(s)     18 January 2008
Running time     80 min
Country     United States U.S.A.

Slingshot Hip Hop is a 2008 documentary film directed by Jackie Reem Salloum which traces the history and development of Palestinian hip hop, in Palestine from the time DAM pioneered the art form in the late 1990s. DAM, Palestinian Rapperz, Mahmoud Shalabi, and female artists Arapeyat and Sabreena Da Witch (Abeer).

The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and screened at the 2008 Chicago Palestine Film Festival.

It was also shown in the 12th Annual 2008 Arab Film Festival, where both the filmmaker Jackie Reem Salloum as well as the Palestinian rap trio DAM were present for the screenings. It was the opening night film at the 2008 Boston Palestine Film Festival, and also screened at the 2010 Palestine Film Festival Cyprus.

In August of 2008] Slingshot Hip Hop was shown to Palestinian youth in three of the country's Palestinian refugee camps; Shatila, Bourj al-Barajneh, and Bedawi