Rebekah Wingert-Jabi

Rebeka Wingert-Jabi is an American documentary film director best known for the documentary My Neighbourhood.[1]

Rebekah Wingert-Jabi
Rebekah Wingert-Jabi at the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards
Born
Rebekah Lee Wingert
Occupationdocumentary film director
Years active2000-present
Known forMy Neighbourhood
Websitetherestonfilm.com/filmmakers

Background

Wingert-Jabi is the child of Vernon Wingert and Victoria Wingert. Her father worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[2] Her mother served on the board of directors for the Reston Association and was later president of the Reston Historic Trust.[3][4][5][6] She grew up in Reston and nearby Oakton, Virginia.

She received a MFA in film and television production from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.[7]

Career

Wingert-Jabi began her film career in 2000. She has produced, directed, and edited film and television. Films on which she has worked have appeared on the Discovery Channel, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Al Arabiya, and Al Jazeera English networks.[7][1]

She lived in the West Bank for eight years and worked with Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers to produce films including Swish, Swish and documentaries including A Good Samaritan. She taught at Al Quds University and Dar Al Kalima College. She managed youth media projects including Palestinian-Israeli video exchange.[1]

With Julia Bacha, she co-directed, co-produced, and edited the film My Neighbourhood, produced by Just Vision. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012[8] and debuted on US television on Al Jazeera English.[7][9][10] It also showed at the Washington West Film Festival,[11] Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (2012), Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival (2012),[12] Sheffield Doc/Fest (2012), DokuFest (2012), Movies That Matter (2013), San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (2012), Chicago Palestine Film Festival (2013), and Camden International Film Festival (2012), Tiburon Film Festival,[13] and Documenta Madrid (2012).[14]

In 2014, she held a sneak peek private screening of Another Way of Living, a documentary on Reston, Virginia , one of America's foremost New Towns for the 50th anniversary of the founding of Reston.[15]

Her film company is Storycatcher Productions, based in Reston.[7]

Awards

Work

Director:

  • 2015 A Bird in the Hand (in production)[19]
  • 2014 Another Way of Living (in post-production)
  • 2012 My Neighbourhood (co-director)

Producer:

  • 2015 A Bird in the Hand (in production)[19]
  • 2014 Another Way of Living (in post-production) (co-producer)
  • 2012 My Neighbourhood (co-producer)
  • 2012 Besa: The Promise (associate)
  • 2009 Budrus (associate)

Writer:

  • 2012 My Neighbourhood

Editor:

  • 2015 A Bird in the Hand (in production)[19]
  • 2014 Another Way of Living (in post-production)
  • 2012 My Neighbourhood
  • 2005 In the Shadows
  • 2003 Unsyncables at Any Age

Cinematographer:

  • 2015 A Bird in the Hand (in production)[19]
  • 2014 Another Way of Living (in post-production)
  • 2012 My Neighbourhood

Set decorator

  • 2004 Playing

Personal

Wingert-Jabi is married, has a daughter, and lives in Reston.

References
  1. "Rebekah Wingert-Jabi". Just Vision.
  2. "Partnerships in Preparedness". FEMA. 1998.
  3. "Clerk's Board Summary: Report of the Actions of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors". Fairfax County Government. 7 August 2000.
  4. "Clerk's Board Summary: Report of the Actions of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors". Fairfax County Government. 26 June 2000.
  5. "Wingert, Aaron Win Seats". Fairfax Connection. 10 April 2002.
  6. Gardner, Amy (6 December 2007). "After Years Capturing Area History, Museum to Upgrade". Washington Post.
  7. "Filmmakers". The Reston Film.
  8. "My Neighbourhood". Tribeca Film Festival. 2012.
  9. Abraham, Josh (13 March 2012). "2012 Tribeca Film Festival announces Short Film Selections". Hollywood News.
  10. Howland, Melissa (13 March 2012). "2012 Tribeca Film Festival announces Short Film Selections". We Are Movie Geeks.
  11. "Filmmakers From Reston Screening Documentaries at The Washington West Film Festival This Weekend". Northern Virginia Magazine. 25 October 2013.
  12. "Rebekah Wingert-Jabi". Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival.
  13. "My Neighbourhood". Tiburon Film Festival. 2012.
  14. "My Neighbourhood". Documenta Madrid. 2012.
  15. "50/100: Reston Celebrates! 50th Anniversary of Reston and 100th Birthday of its Founder, Robert E. Simon, Jr". Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce. February 21, 2014.
  16. "Al Jazeera Documentary Wins Peabody Award". Al Jazeera. 28 March 2013.
  17. Goff, Karen (7 May 2013). "Reston Director Wins Peabody Award". Patch.com.
  18. "Film "My Neighbourhood" Wins a Peabody Award". Palestine Note. 11 April 2013.
  19. "A Bird in the Hand". Initiative for Public Art - Reston (IPAR). April 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.

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