2013 Documentary
USA
1h 40min
Original language: English, Arabic, Hebrew
Dancing In Jaffa is a feature length documentary film that follows Pierre Dulaine's journey to Jaffa to fulfill his lifelong dream of teaching dance to Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli children, then pairing them in a competition. Pierre is an Internationally renowned ballroom dancer and dance instructor whose famous program, Dancing Classrooms, introduced ballroom dancing to the NYC public schools immortalized in the film Take The Lead, starring Antonio Banderas. He started with 30 children in the mid- 1990s and since then more than over 300,000 children have participated in his program.
Directed by | Hilla Medalia |
Written by | Philip Shane, Hilla Medalia |
Company | Sundance SelectsSundance SelectsSundance Selects |