Billboard From Bethlehem

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This film Rocks! Winner of four festival awards and available for 60 minute screenings in your community's theater, house of worship, campus, home and on your local cable access, our documentary film "The Billboard From Bethlehem" shows how peace making is done, on the ground, in Israel and Palestine.

"Through this billboard we wish to send a message of hope to the Americans and...invite them to be more active in our struggle for peace."......Avner Wishnitzer, Israeli member of the Peace group Combatants for Peace

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On Memorial Day Week End of 2007, I Wage Peace founder and Connecticut native Bruce Barrett, with artist Russell Rainbolt, and Documentary film maker Tom Jackson, joined 100 Israeli and Palestinian children and former Israeli soldiers and former Palestinian armed resisters to hand paint a giant 48-foot long Peace mural in the West Bank of occupied Palestine. The sign was received at religious services in the West Bank and Israel, then shipped to the United States to a Connecticut mosque, a synagogue, and a church, and finally posted on Connecticut Interstate I-95 and RT 84.

Their journey with the handpainted sign is documented in this award winning film

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See What People are Saying about the Film

"A must see...The Billboard From Bethlehem is the story of a real battle, launched by the combatants, who, knowing the price of war, have opted for peace instead." Dr. Anat Biletzki, Chairperson of the Board, B'Tselem, 2001-2006

"By bringing together Palestinians and Israelis, Barrett provides an opportunity to break down stereotypes and to foster human community across borders and across cultures. The story of The Billboard from Bethlehem is worth seeing." Dr. Peter E. Makari Executive, Middle East and Europe, Global Ministries of the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

"I watched this [film] shedding tears both of sadness and of hope... it captures the human spirit to rise above tragedy." Rabbi Herbert Brockman, Ph.D., D.D. Congregation Mishkan Israel, Hamden CT

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