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Would you consider making an early contribution to help our hit Israeli-Palestinian Reality Show project grow?
“Shufu Shufu” is a slang Arabic word (often also used in Hebrew) - شوفو شوفو - שופו שופו - meaning something like “Look here!” Our Shufu Shufu Reality Show is in early planning stages. |
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You can contribute any amount, using a credit card or PayPal account - please click on Donate button:
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"Shufu Shufu" will be a competitive reality show with several mixed four-person teams - each having two Jewish-Israeli and two Arab-Israeli citizens. There will be an all women's team, a men's team, and religious and secular teams. There will also be four coaches.
"Shufu Shufu" will be both entertaining and provocative - shot in many different locations in the often challenging world of Israel/Palestine. It will be in a mix of spoken English, Arabic, and Hebrew, with subtitles - that will make the show very accessible in different markets: in the United States, Israel and Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Europe, and elsewhere. "Shufu Shufu" will be super fun way for viewers around the world to learn about different aspects of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict - and also to see how Palestinians and Jews can learn to work and play together: Can you get down and dirty creative with your frenemy? |
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Contestants will be chosen from throughout Israel: including from the Jerusalem area (including East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv and Central Israel, the Negev and the Galilee.
Rahat is in the house!
Haifa is in the house!
Nazareth is in the house!
Herzliya is in the house!
Rahat is in the house!
Haifa is in the house!
Nazareth is in the house!
Herzliya is in the house!
Your contribution will help us reach our goal of $20,000 to continue planning and shooting our “Shufu Shufu” pilot episode. Then with this pilot, we will approach producers and distributors in Los Angeles, Israel, and elsewhere to come on board to fund and produce the entire eight-episode season.
Everyone who contributes: will get early access to our pilot episode, as well as an invitation to an exclusive Zoom event soon with our director, crew, and contestants.
Everyone who contributes: will get early access to our pilot episode, as well as an invitation to an exclusive Zoom event soon with our director, crew, and contestants.
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"Shufu Shufu" will be a cross between “Survivor”, “Queer Eye” (a reality show “with a heart”) and other hit reality shows.
Teams will face physical, emotional, intellectual and political challenges- can teammates succeed on all these levels? Challenges will include Ticking Time Bomb Jeopardy, Selfie Deluxe, and the Shufu Talent Show: where each team will put themselves on the line to sing (together in Hebrew and Arabic), dance, or perform an unforgettable, original skit. Our goal - a season of eight episodes, where one by one, with voting by judges and viewers around the world (via SMS), teams will gradually be disqualified, leaving one Grand Prize winning team! Teams will go on field trips: Arabs and Jews together - they will have challenges that take place in some of the hot spots in Israel/Palestine:
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The impossible dilemma of Israel/Palestine: we believe that our Israeli/Palestinian conflict is an unequal conflict (and "Shufu Shufu" will not hestitate to show that): Palestinians/Arabs, whether they live in the West Bank or Israel, have a harder life than Jews, in a system that favors Jews. At the same time, we believe that healing can only happen if we learn to experience each other as equals, at least for a few minutes: whatever side we’re on, we need to listen to the stories and the suffering of “the other side”.
And we need to learn to play:
Can you get down and dirty creative with your frenemy?
To find out more about how you or your community can become involved with "Shufu Shufu", or to contact us for any other reason (we are also looking for early "angel investors"), please email us: shufushufuvideo@gmail.com
THANKS - IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO CREATE A HIT TV SHOW!
Some of our team:
Harvey Stein (director, producer)
Harvey's impact media company, Jerusalem New York Productions (http://www.jerusalemny.com) has offices in Jerusalem and New York. 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, has been shown extensively in film festivals, impact screenings, as well as theatrical release.
Ramez Kazmuz (co-producer)
Ramez is an Arab-Israeli producer at Alarz Production Company based in Nazareth, and at Ehna TV. Alarz is the first & largest Arab-owned and operated broadcast production facility in Israel. Ehna TV promotes the establishment of an Arab cultural identity based on universal human values, social justice, and womens' rights. Ehna TV reaches a large and diverse audience throughout the Arab world.
Younes Samman (co-producer)
Younes is the Regional Coordinator for Palestinians at Clincierge. He has also worked with Pathways Institute for Negotiation Education, Sulha, and other changemaking groups in Israel/Palestine.
Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger (Shufu Shufu coach)
Rabbi Schlesinger co-founded and continues to co-direct Roots/Shorashim/Judur, a joint Palestinian-Israeli grassroots peacemaking initiative dedicated to understanding, nonviolence, and transformation.
Challenge
an Israeli NGO dedicated to working on new methods of conflict resolution on social/educational/artistic levels. Mario Schejtman and Dora Bender of Challenge will be on our team.
Harvey Stein (director, producer)
Harvey's impact media company, Jerusalem New York Productions (http://www.jerusalemny.com) has offices in Jerusalem and New York. 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, has been shown extensively in film festivals, impact screenings, as well as theatrical release.
Ramez Kazmuz (co-producer)
Ramez is an Arab-Israeli producer at Alarz Production Company based in Nazareth, and at Ehna TV. Alarz is the first & largest Arab-owned and operated broadcast production facility in Israel. Ehna TV promotes the establishment of an Arab cultural identity based on universal human values, social justice, and womens' rights. Ehna TV reaches a large and diverse audience throughout the Arab world.
Younes Samman (co-producer)
Younes is the Regional Coordinator for Palestinians at Clincierge. He has also worked with Pathways Institute for Negotiation Education, Sulha, and other changemaking groups in Israel/Palestine.
Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger (Shufu Shufu coach)
Rabbi Schlesinger co-founded and continues to co-direct Roots/Shorashim/Judur, a joint Palestinian-Israeli grassroots peacemaking initiative dedicated to understanding, nonviolence, and transformation.
Challenge
an Israeli NGO dedicated to working on new methods of conflict resolution on social/educational/artistic levels. Mario Schejtman and Dora Bender of Challenge will be on our team.