Hana Elias

Hana is a Palestinian-American documentary filmmaker and journalist. Her work explores the interrelationships between land and identity in the Middle East and the United States. She aims to center the perspectives of people from underrepresented backgrounds as they imagine alternative realities. This ranges from her first film, The Rooftops of Jerusalem, a coming of age story about Palestinian parkour players in Jerusalem’s old city, and Holding Fire, about a grassroots movement of Muslim immigrant women fighting for their rights in the New York City political arena. She has been working on documentaries for the last 8 years, as a video editor, camera person, and associate producer, and is a Video News fellow at Democracy Now.

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ABOUT If These Stones Could Talk

Nassib and Maha found each other in diaspora and shared a dream to build a home in Nassib’s Palestinian town. Their daughter Hana documents this intricate love story between the family and the land as they revive an ancestral garden and sow new beginnings.

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