Bisan Owda
Acting
Biography
Bisan Owda (in arabic : بيسان عودة), born in 1997, is a Palestinian journalist, influencer and director. In one of his videos Owda says he comes from a village in the northern Gaza Strip. While visiting her grandparents, she would have witnessed the destruction of their orange plantation by Israeli forces at the age of fifteen. Owda works with the United Nations on gender equality, as a member of the UN Women Agora Forum for Youth Gender Innovation2. Owda also works with the European Union on climate change, and is an EU Goodwill Ambassador. Owda produces a show, Hakawatia, broadcast by Roya TV and works for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Bisan Owda publishes videos, documenting the daily lives of Gazans or recounting his personal experience living through the Palestinian genocide. Owda's videos on the lives of Palestinians during the war since October 7, 2023 have been shared by ABC News, Al Jazeera, BBC1 and Le Monde. As of October 15, 2023, Owda accumulates more than 180,000 followers on Instagram. Owda and his parents fled Beit Hanoun to take refuge in Al-Shifa hospital when the IDF ordered the Gazans to evacuate. His family's home and office in Rimal are both bombed, destroying all of Owda's film equipment. She witnesses the Al-Shifa ambulance airstrike on November 3, 2023. Bisan Owda receives an Emmy Award in 2024 for his documentary 'It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive'.
Known For
Free Fish is a short documentary filmed over the course of a year in Gaza, following two brothers — Abu Nagham and Ahmad — separated by war yet connected by the sea. Displaced from their home, Abu Nagham now lives in a tent in the south, fishing with his young nephew Rami, who lost his twin brother. Ahmad remains in the north, fishing amid ruins and occupation. Once a source of livelihood and freedom, the sea has become a battleground — heavily restricted, constantly watched, and always dangerous.
Free Fish
Students flooded Columbia University’s lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies. The film follows the central organizers of the encampment as they are thrust into the spotlight, face violent police repression and suspension, congressional pressure, and a media firestorm, all while fighting to attain their goal of divestment at any cost.
The Encampments
Bisan Owda, journalist and influencer collaborator of the media AJ+, is at the forefront of reporting by filming with her phone, the daily life of Palestinians to the world since October 7, 2023, the start of the war and devastation from Gaza. Owda's storytelling style and resilience have captured international attention, with his work widely covered by international media. She received an Emmy Award in 2024 for her outstanding coverage of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive
Montage film by Aymeric Caron, broadcast at the French National Assembly on May 29, 2024. “Is it a dream or a reality? » demands a little girl stunned by her injuries. It is a nightmare, without a doubt, and nothing can justify it, neither the crimes of October 7 nor the detention of Israeli hostages by Hamas. Condemning all the crimes of October 7, before and after, condemning anti-Semitism and all forms of racism is common sense. However, it seems that this needs to be clarified. Everyone present normally wishes that the surviving hostages can one day be reunited with their families and that the massacre in Gaza stops immediately. But to follow through with the process is to see things face to face, to see what has been happening in Gaza since October 7, what the Israeli army is doing, what the television channels are not showing.
Gaza, Since October 7
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Gaza, génération génocidée
It is May 8, 2024, and Israel is preparing to launch a destructive military operation in Rafah. Tahani, a Palestinian woman who has been internally displaced multiple times since the beginning of the attacks on Gaza, wonders where she and her children can find refuge once again. The film provides a glimpse into her family’s life before and after October 7, depicting the anguish of a mother who, marked by a painful loss, struggles to find peace.