Things are changing. Three years ago the New York Theatre Workshop hit a roadblock when it wanted to produce the late Rachel Corrie's own words, in My Name Is Rachel Corrie.
Tomorrow night the Tribeca Film Festival shows a movie about her by the European director Simone Bitton, with a hat tip to the International Solidarity Movement, of which brave Rachel Corrie was a member, and no one's going crazy. Co-presented by Human Rights Watch. Apparently the Corries will be there. Of "Rachel":
Director Simone Bitton aligns her filmmaking methodology with the International Solidarity Movement's
guidelines to state only objective and concrete details without placing
judgment. Balancing interviews with the Israeli Defense Force's current
and former personnel and the participants and leaders in the ISM,
Bitton examines the circumstances surrounding the unresolved case of
Corrie's death.
Is this part of Brian Baird's commitment to Gaza? Because he lost a constituent to this madness?
