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Jethro Rothe-Kushel is a 21 year-old Los Angeles native. Growing up in and around Hollywood movie sets, Jethro wanted to make films as a young child. At age nine he made his first documentary and at ten his first music video. At fourteen he created his first award-winning festival film. Since, he has created hundreds of narrative, documentary, experimental, and commercial films. In 2001, Rothe-Kushel was awarded the "Breaking Out Award" for best up-and-coming director by the Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles. A Chicano with mixed Mexican and Jewish heritage, he has a unique visionand a special eye towards the voice of the oppressed. His work (which includes work in 16mm, 35mm, and digital video) explores issues of identity, race, class, culture, and religion. Pharaoh's Streets focuses on the 'Habiru' wandering nomadic homeless through a critical look at the various veils of Los Angeles. Walls, fences, gates, borders, and even the veil of the silver screen compose very fibers of Los Angeles and become as much a subject of the film as the startling homeless informants themselves. Rothe-Kushel's
work has screened both nationally and internationally at venues such
as the Liverpool Biennial, Jurusalem International Film Festival, Big
Bear International Film Festival, KCBS Television News, WebTV, University
of Copenhagen, National Media Convention, Northeast Summit on Hunger
and Homelessness, Ivy Film Festival, etc. He has worked with Mexican
performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a Palestenian video artist,
and an American rock group, The Calling. He is currently completing
his last year as a Religion major as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College,
and he is currently looking for new projects.
"Jethro Rothe-Kushel has created one of the most powerful and moving
documentaries on hunger and homelessness in recent years. Pharaoh's
Streets examines the dire conditions of homelessness in Los Angeles
by presenting the vivid realities of the city's shelter-less victims
and challenges viewers to question the stability of thier own realities.
The Free Press called Pharaoh's Streets "an eminently valuable visual
text" with a "startling and brave vision" of homelessness in America.
This documentary serves as the benchmark for the socially conscious
filmmaker's promising career." |
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