"They Were Promised the Sea" with Director Kathy Wazana

Join us at the New Parkway 12:30pm Sunday 9/22 for a screening of Kathy Wazana’s “They Were Promised the Sea” — Kathy will be joining us live in-person for a Q&A after the movie.

More ticketing details to come, as well as a link to register for the Zoom if you’d like to join the screening remotely! For now, here’s more information on Kathy’s film:

“They were Promised the Sea is a myth-shattering documentary that investigates the 1960’s exodus of Morocco’s Jewish population to Israel, exposing the political manipulation that separated Jewish and Muslim communities that had lived together for 2000 years. Visually stunning and musically rich, it links the events inextricably to the tragic dispossession and exile of the Palestinian people.”

Kathy Wazana is a Toronto-based writer, translator, editor-turned documentary filmmaker.

A proponent of international cooperation and learning, a peace activist and an advocate for equity and human rights, Kathy has worked in politics and the labour movement, in educational television, publishing and advertising, in government, public and media relations, and in international development, in France and in Canada.

She has written, translated, adapted, edited, directed and/or produced a wide range of print and video educational materials for publication, public and private screenings, and broadcast, on a variety of issues. She has also curated arts and educational events with multicultural and multinational themes, and planned, produced and publicized several successful cross-cultural events.

In recent years, Kathy has turned her attention to studying and understanding Jewish-Arab-Muslim-Israel-Palestine relations through the history of Jews in North Africa and the Middle East and her own identity as an Arab Jew. The rupture provoked by the Partition of Palestine and the creation of the State of Israel is the subject of Kathy’s first independently produced and directed feature documentary, "They Were Promised the Sea / Pour une Nouvelle Séville."

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, Oakland, United States