The Zora Dirnbach Screenwriting Program is conceived as a screenwriting development initiative dedicated to the investigative aspect of scriptwriting, with a special emphasis on its social implications. While it primarily focuses on the development of feature film screenplays, the program’s main goal is to open an interdisciplinary research space. This is a second year edition that is fostering a collaboration between the Screenwriters and Playwrights Guild and Kino Unseen.

This collaboration has led to the organization of a program titled Bridging - A SONG OF ETERNITY ON THE HILL OF SLAUGHTER: Najwa Juma and Davor Sanvincenti to foster a dialogue between authors working across diverse media and contexts, yet with closely aligned interests. The relationship forged here also bridges spaces of erased memories and those resurfacing before us, thus creating room for images and words from the potential imaginaries of third or fourth cinemas.

Najwa Juma is a Palestinian poet, translator, and women’s rights activist from Gaza. She recently completed her first poetry collection titled The Song of Eternity on the Hill of Slaughter (Poems from the Genocide).

Davor Sanvincenti is a multimedia artist from Istria. He is particularly interested in the field of audiovisual phenomenology and the anthropology of visual culture, with a focus on the ways and forms of human perception. His artistic practice is realized through various media—film and video, photography, installations of physical light and sound, and live media performances.