Slingshot Hip Hop

Slingshot Hip Hop is a 2008 documentary film directed by Jackie Reem Salloum that traces the history and development of hip hop in the Palestinian territories from the time DAM pioneered the art form in the late 1990s.

It braids together the stories of young Palestinian artists living in Gaza, the West Bank, and inside Israel as they discover hip hop, and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.

Featuring artists; The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival,[1][2] was later shown on the Sundance Channel,[3] and has won over 13 awards.

[5] In August 2008 Slingshot Hip Hop was shown to Palestinian youth in three of Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps: Shatila, Bourj al-Barajneh, and Beddawi.

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