Listen in as film maker Danae talks about her new film P.S. Jerusalem, racism, exploitation, why it’s so difficult to film in Jerusalem and how she has become increasingly uncomfortable pointing the camera at other people.The new P.S. Jerusalem trailer is here and for more info about Danae’s work check out her website.Film SynopsisReturning to her hometown of Jerusalem with her young family after several years abroad, documentarian Danae Elon offers an intimate, ground’s-eye view of one of the most fiercely contested cities in the world.In 2010, filmmaker Danae Elon was living in New York City and pregnant with her third child when she felt a powerful urge to move back to her hometown of Jerusalem. Her husband Philip is a French-Algerian Jew who had never lived in Israel, but was game to try it. In P.S. Jerusalem, Elon chronicles her family’s three-year sojourn, during which time they bore witness to much of what makes the city such a fiercely debated territory.Even though Jerusalem is frequently in the headlines, Elon brings a fresh perspective as she observes the city physically transform as the Israeli government increases the evictions of Arabs and the expansion of Jewish settlements. Meanwhile, she also documents Philip’s struggle to fit in and the experiences of her young sons as they confront the challenges of mixing between Jews and Arabs. As the years pass, we see how the city’s tensions become internalized within the family.A looming presence in the film is Danae’s father, the noted journalist and author Amos Elon. An outspoken critic of Israel, Amos and his wife Beth had raised Danae in Jerusalem in an atmosphere of activism and engagement. Before his death in 2009, Amos had grown so disappointed with his adopted country that he and Beth relocated to Tuscany.In the film, Danae includes conversations with him in which he shares his pessimistic analysis and warns her not to move back.P.S. Jerusalem is a film about navigating the divisions between the individual and the family, the past and the present, and hope and reality. There are no easy answers.BiographyDanae Elon is an award-winning documentary producer, director and cinematographer. She graduated from NYU Tisch school with honors in 1995, where she won the National Kodak Award for Cinematography.In 2009 she was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in film. Twice she has been awarded a grant from the Sundance Institute in Lost Angeles.Her first feature documentary film Never Again Forever, released in 1996, showcased in more than 25 international film festivals and received a Golden Spire award from the San Francisco International film festival as well as an achievement award from the Chicago International Film festival.Soon after she returned to Jerusalem, her hometown to complete two additional films Wild Mint, which she directed and produced, and Cut which she photographed and co-produced with Director/Producer Nizar Hassan. For this film she was awarded a grant from theRothschild foundation. In addition she won an Award from the 2000 Jerusalem festival for Cinematography.In 2001 Danae returned to the US and began work on her film Another Road Home which she received a Sundance grant in 2003 and went on to be praised as one of the most honest and sensitive films ever made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  The film premiered at the 2004 Tribeca film festival and showcased in over 20 international film festivals, including IDFA, LAFF, Jerusalem film festival, Hot Docs, Encounters South Africa, Gotenburg, and many more. Another Road Home was theatrically released it 2005 and was shown in over fifteen US cities. It was broadcast on the Sundance channel, BBC, Finnish, Belgian, New Zealand, Swedish, and on both Al Jazeera and Israeli television. She won two awards for Another Road Home a Bronze Medal from the Warsaw International Film Festival, and best documentary from Tursak Film Festival in Istanbul.Partly Private is her second feature documentary,