The International Jury of the 43rd Festival dei Popoli, unanimously agreed:
SPECIAL MENTION to: GAZA STRIP by James Longley (USA)
"An effective document of what happens to children that are constantly exposed to death, chaos and machine-guns."

GAZA STRIP has been shown on television in Italy on TELE+ and in the United States on the DISH Network and Channel 25 in New York City. Material from the film has also been shown worldwide as part of a BBC documentary called Israel's Secret Weapon.

Below is an incomplete list of additional public screenings:

FESTIVALS
Festival Dei Popoli, Florence, Italy
Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
United Nations Association Film Festival, Stanford University, CA
Institut du Monde Arabe Film Festival, Paris, France
KYPRIA 2002, International Festival, Cyprus
Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival
Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada
Cinema Texas International Short Film Festival
Chicago Palestinian Film Festival
San Francisco Arab Film Festival
Seattle Arab and Iranian Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada
Leeds Underground Film Festival, UK
International Film Festival of India
Visualized Film Festival, Denver, CO
Beirut Arab Film Festival, Lebanon
Goteborg Film Festival, Sweden
International Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey
Singapore International Film Festival
Moscow Palestine Film Festival, Russian Federation
Vermont International Film Festival


THEATERS
Seventh Art Theater, Rabat, Morocco
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
Zeitgeist Theater, New Orleans, LA
Portland Art Museum, NW Film Center, OR
Tel Aviv Cinemateque, Israel
Jerusalem Cinemateque, Israel
Haifa Cinemateque, Israel
SPACE, Portland OR (HRW Traveling Festival)
Seattle Art Museum Theater, Seattle, WA
The Little Theater, Seattle, WA
Visions Theater, Washington D.C.
Kriterion Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anthology Film Archives, New York City
911 Media Arts Center, Seattle
The TownHouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Jacob Burns Film Center, Weschester, New York
Beirut Theater, Lebanon
Gandhi Hall, Maison des Associations, Geneva, Switzerland
Facets Cinemateque, Chicago
Immigration Museum, Boston
Cinema Village Theater, New York City
Teatro Estudio Yerbabruja, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Roxie Cinema, San Francisco
Fine Arts Cinema, San Francisco
Towne Theater, San Francisco
Union Theater, Milwaukee, WI
International House, Philadelphia, PA

SCHOOLS, COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Harvard University (undergrad)
Harvard University (Kennedy School)
MIT
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University, NJ
Columbia Univeristy (undergrad)
Columbia University (SIPA)
University of California at Berkeley
University of Connecticut
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Northeastern University, MA
Wesleyan University, CT
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Washington, Friday Harbor Labs, WA
University of Utah
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA
Yale University, CT
Boston University, MA
Rice University, Houston, TX
Loyola University, Chicago, IL
New York University (Cantor Film Center)
New York University (Kevorkian Center)
Evergreen University, WA
University of California, Los Angeles
Mercyhurst College
The Cleveland Institute of Art, OH (Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center)
University of California at Berkeley (Human Rights Watch Film Festival)
Hickman High School, Columbia, MO
Kettering Univeristy, Flint, MI (Human Rights Watch Film Festival)
New School University, NYC
Washington University, D.C.
Georgetown University, D.C.
George Mason University, VA
Hampshire College, MA
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of Texas at Austin
University of Kansas (Liberty Hall)
Trinity University, TX
Ohio State University
Georgia Tech, GA
Carnegie Mellon University, PA
Bloomfield College, NJ
University of Illinois
Loyola University, IL
Wayne State University, MI
American University, Washington D.C.
Univeristy of Michigan
University of Chicago, IL
DePaul University, IL
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Union Theater
Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
Drew University, NJ
Douglass College Center, NJ
City College of New York, NY
The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Johns Hopkins University, MD
Stanford Univeristy, CA
University of Maryland
Stoneybrook University, NY

Do you know of other screenings? Please email them to james_longley@yahoo.com