At this very tough time, when Israel is often misrepresented in schools, communities, and online, “Green Rebels” will help change the way people think about one of the world's most innovative and humanitarian countries. This movie will infuse people with a new sense of pride in the only Jewish country on the planet. - Roz Rothstein, CEO, StandWithUs International |
"Green Rebels" paints a picture that is both humorous and very uplifting, ultimately transforming audiences in their connection to both Israel and Africa." - Rabbi Riqi Kosevske, Beit Ahavah Synagogue |
You can host an exciting
"Green Rebels"
Impact Screening/Discussion Event
in your community
We bring our powerful excerpts of "Green Rebels" (about 40 minutes total) - our story about solar energy visionary Yosef Abramowitz and his partners - to Jewish and other communities in the United States and elsewhere. After each short excerpt, we lead an energetic discussion or workshop activity on all the movie's issues - designed to educate, inspire and motivate to action and change.
"Green Rebels"
Directed byHarvey Stein
Produced by Jerusalem NewYork Productions
To help us finish our movie, you can also contribute any amount here. (All contributors get a gift). Thanks!
Our Impact Events can be scheduled anytime starting August, 2024
"Green Rebels"
Impact Screening/Discussion Event
in your community
We bring our powerful excerpts of "Green Rebels" (about 40 minutes total) - our story about solar energy visionary Yosef Abramowitz and his partners - to Jewish and other communities in the United States and elsewhere. After each short excerpt, we lead an energetic discussion or workshop activity on all the movie's issues - designed to educate, inspire and motivate to action and change.
"Green Rebels"
Directed byHarvey Stein
Produced by Jerusalem NewYork Productions
To help us finish our movie, you can also contribute any amount here. (All contributors get a gift). Thanks!
Our Impact Events can be scheduled anytime starting August, 2024
Update, June, 2024: We are working on a brand new excerpt of “Green Rebels”:
about Yossi Abramowitz’s amazing work with a Gazan woman activist – together they built Gaza’s FIRST solar field, working without much support from either government. They recently co-wrote this Newsweek article on their challenges – that encapsulates Abramowitz’s belief that on-the-ground work bringing solar energy to needy communities, can be a global inspiration to peace and better relations between ALL peoples.
Our excerpt will use exclusive footage shot of the solar field, including after its tragic destruction (unclear by whom) in November, 2023:
about Yossi Abramowitz’s amazing work with a Gazan woman activist – together they built Gaza’s FIRST solar field, working without much support from either government. They recently co-wrote this Newsweek article on their challenges – that encapsulates Abramowitz’s belief that on-the-ground work bringing solar energy to needy communities, can be a global inspiration to peace and better relations between ALL peoples.
Our excerpt will use exclusive footage shot of the solar field, including after its tragic destruction (unclear by whom) in November, 2023:
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Green Rebels
Bringing Solar Energy to Africa Can an ambitious American-Israeli guy living in Jerusalem bring solar generated electricity to millions in neighboring Africa? “Green Rebels”, our feature documentary project, is an Israel/Africa story. We follow the struggles of American-Israeli solar energy visionary and impact businessman, Yosef Abramowitz - AKA “Kaptain Sunshine”, and his African partners, to provide on the ground solutions to both global climate change, and to inequality in Africa. Can they work with the power brokers of their worlds, and try to close successful business deals on solar fields costing upwards of $25 million each - without losing their souls? Our story is shot primarily in Israel, Rwanda, and Burundi. Abramowitz and his family immigrated to Israel from Boston in 2006, and soon after, Arava Power, his first Israeli solar energy company, inked the first deal to sell solar-generated electricity to Israel’s electric grid. His vision? As Abramowitz says, for Israel to be a “sustainable Light unto the Nations.” Kaptain Sunshine had arrived. |
A few years later, his company finished the first commercial scale solar field in sub-Saharan Africa (in Rwanda) – it now supplies 6% of the nation’s energy needs. Touchingly, it is situated in Agahozo Youth Village (which benefits from the sale of electricity), where several hundred orphans of Rwanda’s own genocidal war have studied and lived. Abramowitz’s Jerusalem company is now negotiating with 10 additional African countries for solar fields (everywhere from Burundi to Ethiopia to northern Nigeria).
We have been filming Abramowitz’s adventures for over five years, and have exclusive filming access to all of his activities. Our team shot video throughout Burundi in 2022 - where Abramowitz successfully finished his second African solar field last year. Burundi has tested Abramowitz and his company: can obstacles of government corruption, violence, terrorism, and entrenched energy interests be overcome – Burundi is one of Africa's poorest nations. Can Abramowitz and his African allies bring solar energy to a substantial number of Africa’s 600 million people without electricity - and win the competition against the highly polluting gas and coal electric plants planned by the greedy multinational petro interests? “Green Rebels” also focuses on several African supporting characters, including: Patrick Nzitunga, Abramowitz’s company’s articulate Burundian staff member; Zambian Bishop Scott Mwanza, a major ally of Abramowitz; and a practicing Burundian Jew (many Burundians of the Tutsi tribe consider their ancestors Jewish, who migrated southward from Ethiopia many centuries ago). Abramowitz talks about Golda Meir visiting five African countries, in 1958, and that she later wrote: “Independence had come to us, as it was coming to Africa, not served up on a silver platter, but after years of struggle.” And he regularly quotes Ben Gurion, “The largest source of energy in our world, a source so unused by man – is the sun.” |
“Green Rebels” is a universal story of the power of solar energy to change peoples’ lives in positive ways.
Abramowitz’s vision and longterm commitment make our movie a perfect vehicle for a deep and actionable impact on green, Jewish, and a variety of other communities. As a solar trailblazer, he was named one of CNN’s six Green Pioneers. And in 2021, members of parliaments from 12 African countries, together nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. |
Our "Green Rebels" Impact Screening/Discussion events can include:
Short opening videos made by teens in your community: We can work with you online, to supervise several teens in your community to make short (2-minutes or less) videos on any aspect of sustainability/green issues - both global issues, and how these issues manifest locally where you live. Our event can open with several of these short videos, galvanizing your community and helping bringing them to the event.
Screening of “Green Rebels” excerpts and discussion: Stein will facilitate a discussion (with participation by all there, including your rabbi, pastor, or other community leaders) that includes: How does Abramowitz draw on specific Jewish/religious wisdom in his work? How does his work impact global sustainability and green development issues? What are some of your community’s local issues related to sustainability? What local partners can your community work with, to accomplish some of its significant goals? Your event can also include an action plan: what specific activities or goals might community members commit to in the next months?
A screening/discussion event lasts about 80-90 minutes in total. After we partner to plan an event, we have a zoom a few weeks before the event:
to tailer-make your event to your community and your vision.
Short opening videos made by teens in your community: We can work with you online, to supervise several teens in your community to make short (2-minutes or less) videos on any aspect of sustainability/green issues - both global issues, and how these issues manifest locally where you live. Our event can open with several of these short videos, galvanizing your community and helping bringing them to the event.
Screening of “Green Rebels” excerpts and discussion: Stein will facilitate a discussion (with participation by all there, including your rabbi, pastor, or other community leaders) that includes: How does Abramowitz draw on specific Jewish/religious wisdom in his work? How does his work impact global sustainability and green development issues? What are some of your community’s local issues related to sustainability? What local partners can your community work with, to accomplish some of its significant goals? Your event can also include an action plan: what specific activities or goals might community members commit to in the next months?
A screening/discussion event lasts about 80-90 minutes in total. After we partner to plan an event, we have a zoom a few weeks before the event:
to tailer-make your event to your community and your vision.
Our Menu and Fees:
To contact us for more info or to see more excerpts:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 646-640-7887, WhatsApp: 972-50-212-8132
- We are available to present an impact event for your community in the United States or Canada, anytime starting August 1, 2024.
- Our cost to present an Impact Screening/Discussion Event is $800 (plus transportation to your location from New York City).
To contact us for more info or to see more excerpts:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 646-640-7887, WhatsApp: 972-50-212-8132
BIOGRAPHIES of key members of our team:
Harvey Stein (director, producer) is an Israeli-American filmmaker/teacher from New York City, now living in Jerusalem, where his impact film company, Jerusalem New York Productions (http://www.jerusalemny.com) is based. He presented his last feature documentary, “A Third Way - Settlers and Palestinians as Neighbors”, about Rabbi Menachem Froman (the notorious “settler rabbi for peace”), Ali Abu Awwad, and others - in over 50 impact screenings in both in the United States and Western Europe. It has also been shown in multiple Jewish Film Festivals. Stein is also a licensed high school teacher, experienced in working with teens and others in educational settings.
Vered Post (producer, co-writer) is an Israeli-American producer, writer and educator, co-directing Jerusalem New York Productions (http://www.jerusalemny.com) . She co-produced Jerusalem New York's last documentary, "A Third Way", including supervising the impact campaign. She has co-written several Israeli feature films, was a co-writer for the original Israeli/Palestinian Sesame Street, and has presented a variety of workshops using films and filmmaking, in Israeli schools and other institutions, as well in New York State. Kid-Fleury Ineza (Burundi producer) - lives in Bujumbura, Burundi, where he is a member of both ATSA Creative (a production company) and PNUD Burundi (an NGO dedicated to sustainable development in Burundi). Kid-Fleury considers himself a descendant of the Jews who migrated south from Ethiopia many centuries ago. He is very happy to be working on “Green Rebel”, and helping tell the story of green development in Burundi. Benny Oz (Associate Producer) is a recent graduate from California State Polytechnic University, in Business Administration. He has a passion for entertainment that can also motivate people to social change. He is committed to helping make the world a better, more sustainable place, and believes "Green Rebels" can be a perfect vehicle for that. |
Investor inquiries welcome. Business Plan available.
Investors can subsidize impact events, or also invest in us finishing our feature length version of "Green Rebel" - to premiere in theaters and streaming services in December, 2024. Email us for more info.
CONTACT:
Email: [email protected]
U.S. phone: 646-640-7887
WhatsApp: 972-50-212-8132