‘Theft of Fire’ to Take Back Palestine’s Cultural Heritage (EXCLUSIVE)
Ed Meza @edmezavarPalestinian director Amer Shomali is set to explore the allegedly illegal excavation of Palestinian antiquities by Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Dayan — who remains a divisive figure around the world — in a hybrid film project that examines the loss of cultural history by way of an action-packed, partly animated heist thriller.“Theft of Fire” is a co-production between Rashid Abdelhamid of Made in Palestine Project and Ina Fichman of Montreal-based Intuitive Pictures, who produced Shomali’s award-winning 2014 doc “The Wanted 18,” co-directed with Paul Cowan.Shomali and Abdelhamid are presenting the project at the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival’s CPH:Forum financing and co-production event, which runs