Yael Luttwak graduated from the London Film School, specializing in directing, and recently assisted Oscar nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh on his last project. Two of her short films have been awarded Best Films of the School, nominated for various film festivals and are distributed worldwide by Brit Shorts. A Slim Peace is her first documentary.

Blog Entries by Yael Luttwak

My Road Through Tribeca

Posted May 7, 2007 | 12:25 PM (EST)


My first feature film A Slim Peace premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in the World
Documentary Competition this past week.

The idea is a bit crazy. To bring together a group of Palestinian, Israeli and American settlers together in a weight loss group. After three years my idea...

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Uniting West Bank Women In The Shared Struggle To Lose Weight

Posted April 23, 2007 | 09:45 AM (EST)


In A Slim Peace, 14 women--Israelis, Palestinians, Bedouin Arabs, and American settlers in the West Bank--are brought together with the shared goal of losing weight and find out they have far more in common than they ever would have imagined. A Slim Peace takes a revealing look at the universal struggle for acceptance, understanding and personal transformation in a land of intractable conflict. This is a video diary made by the film's director.


Photo and film description taken from www.tribecafilmfestival.org

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