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Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours
A feature-length documentary about Jews and Muslims struggling for social justice and confronting the rise of religious extremism in both of their communities. These contemporary people of faith — in part inspired by two medieval “wise men” from Cordoba, Spain, a Muslim and a Jew — are promoting the values of democracy and tolerance on the frontlines of the often-violent clashes that have come to define our new century.
Jacob Bender
In the first decade of our new millennium, “religion”, “intolerance” and “terrorism” seem to have become related terms. Out of Cordoba asks whether this has always been the case, not only in the Middle East, but world-wide? Or, on the contrary, can religion be a positive influence for peace and progress around the globe?
9/11 ground zero
Jerusalem
These meetings on the fault-lines of the “Clash of Civilizations” are combined with commentary by experts on Muslim Spain, as well as Bender’s more personal quest for religious meaning in the post-9/11 world, in an attempt to explore whether religion must always lead to intolerance and hate (as several current best-selling books argue) and the building of both real and symbolic walls of separation, or whether faith can also be a source for inter-communal understanding and a progressive force for convivencia in today’s world.
Director & Writer: Jacob Bender, Cinematography: Leif Karpe, Editor: Martin Kayser-Landwehr, Original Music Score: Marcel Khalifé & Antonio Meliveo, Executive Producer: José Antonio Hergueta
A SPAIN / USA CO-PRODUCTION PRODUCED BY MLK Producciones (Spain) & New York Foundation for the Arts (USA)
Here: José Antonio Hergueta, Producer, Jacob Bender, Director
Jacob Bender, Director
Jacob Bender, the creator of Out of Cordoba, is a video producer, photographer, graphic designer, writer and educator. During a career spanning more than thirty years, Jacob has produced dozens of television, video, audiovisual and radio programs, graphic and print projects, museums exhibitions and educational programs. His clients have included a wide range of major corporations, museums, religious and interfaith organizations, and educational institutions around the world. Jacob was the Audio-Visual Producer for the United States Constitutional Bicentennial Exhibition in 1985. He is the director of the television documentary, “The Voice Still Speaks: Jews and Revelation,” broadcast nationally in 1999 on The Odyssey Channel, and “So Goes a Nation: Lawyers and Communities,” produced for Fordham University Law School and narrated by Sam Waterson and Jimmy Smits. “So Goes a Nation” has been screened at over 200 law schools around the world. Jacob graduated from the University of California Los Angeles with a degree in History of Religions. He has been active in a numerous interfaith groups for many years and has travelled widely in the Middle East.
José Antonio Hergueta, Producer
His background as an independent filmmaker and video-artist (and presence in international festivals, museums and shows in the 1980s), provides José A. Hergueta a personal view and experience in film production, mostly focused on creative documentary, a field in which he has produced and directed several programs and films, being the last one the feature “Operation Ursula”. In 1999 he established back in his hometown and founded MLK, a company both dedicated to film production and to cultural dissemination mostly linked to Historial Heritage and Archaeology. This peculiar brotherhood has provided a special touch in developing docs dealing with the Past from a very contemporary view. MLK is currently producing documentaries for Canal Sur TV and other Spanish broadcasters, as well as in co-production with European partners. Its international vocation has achieved in 2006 the co-production of “Operation Ursula” with German and Italian companies, and its first attempt in fiction feature film with “Andalucia” a co-production with France.
Leif Karpe, Cinematographer
Leif Karpe, born in Germany, has worked for over 10 years as a cameraman and director for documentary films, specializing in intercultural projects. He has been a DP for international films, TV productions, and music videos throughout Europe, the Arab world, India and Sri Lanka. His work has appeared on ZDF, WDR, and ARTE. In 1994 he founded his own production company Planet Pictures that focuses on cultural and environmental programs in developing countries. His most recent film (2005) is “El Americano,” a documentary film he directed about the young Orson Wells in Spain.
Martin Kayser-Landwehr, Editor
Martin Kayser-Landwehr has a large career as an editor of documentary films, television series and publicity spots. He works as a freelancer for production companies as Lichtblick, Spiegel TV, MTV and Endemol etc. Between his most recent documentary films stand out “Unter kaiserlicher Flagge” (J. Strumpfhaus) and “Herencia Flamenca” ( Michael Meert).
Marcel Khalifé, Composer and UNESCO Artist for Peace
Marcel Khalifé is one of the most famous musicians in the Arab world, and a “UNESCO Artist for Peace.” Khalifé has composed soundtracks for many films, documentary and fiction. He has also composed several purely instrumental works like The Symphony of Return, Chants of the East, Concerto Al Andalus- Suite for Oud and Orchestra. Marcel Khalifé’s compositions have been performed by several orchestras, notably the Kiev Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Boulogne Billancourt Orchestra, The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the city of Tunis, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
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