Jawad Metni is a director and cinematographer with 10 years experience in documentary films. His credits as cinematographer include 'The Plutonium Circus' (1995), which he also co-produced, 'Hell House' (2001), 'The Federation of Black Cowboys' (2003), and 'Obstacle' (2004), a documentary on Israel's controversial security wall in Palestine. He regularly produces and edits for the History Channel and PBS. He directed 'Raging Boil', which premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival in 1995. In 2001, he directed 'Downwind', a documentary on depleted Uranium weapons and Gulf War Syndrome. He recently completed 'Trading with the Enemy', a documentary on Cuban cigar contraband and sex tourism in Cuba. This film played numerous festivals, including the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
Blending broad issues of history and memory with the near ubiquitous control of war imagery by the military, this film raises questions about the true human cost when the desire for total victory outweighs the moral obligations of ‘humanitarian intervention’.
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An extensive documentation of the World Social Forum held in Mumbai, India, in January 2004, that was attended by over 100,000 people, all looking to build solidarity — and a better world.
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