"I feel like the camera protects me, but it's an illusion." -Kino Lorber
Directed by: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
In 2005, Emad Burnat bought his first camera to capture his son, Gibreel's birth. Then, Burnat began to film Bil'in, a village in West Bank, during Israel. Five years later, co-director Guy Davidi, edited the footage into what we know as the documentary, 'Five Broken Cameras.'
The film focuses on the evolution of a West Bank family's conflict as many political and land issues unfold. It also explores themes of innocence verses corruption of children that live in the West Bank. This theme is exaggerated through words Gabreel learns from a young age like 'war' and 'wall.' It is quite alarming that children are exposed to such issues while they are so young.
Because filming conditions were dangerous, five of Emad's cameras were smashed, hence the film's title, Five Broken Cameras.
This film was developed by the Greenhouse Development Project and funded internationally and through Israeli funders.
Friends Marc Hall (Israel Broussard) and Rebecca
Ahn (Katie Chang) befriend each other in Calabasas at an alternative school and
ban together stealing credit cards and cash from unlocked cars. Marc and
Rebecca, them, team together and steal money, first
from acquaintances, then from celebrities. The team easily gathers information
on celebrities locations through social media sites like twitter and
gossip blogs. As their thefts gain in size and so does their group of
friends. They recruit Chloe (Claire Julien), Sam (Taissa Farmiga),
and Nicki (Emma Watson, portraying Alexis Neiers, known from the
reality show Pretty Wild.
The group manages to steal money from celebrities
such as Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge and
Paris Hilton. Guilt does not seem to phase them as they boast about their
accomplishments at parties and share photographs of the stolen items on social
media sites.
