Udi Aloni is an artist, writer and filmmaker , Omar Robert Hamilton is an independent filmmaker, producer , Richard Fung, TPFF advisor, film professor at OCADU and filmmaker

Film, video, art and theatre have played an important role in Middle Eastern revolutions and resistance of occupation. Join us as we explore with our esteemed guests the role art plays in societies struggling for change.

Omar Robert Hamilton is an independent filmmaker, producer of the Palestine Festival of Literature and a founding member of the Mosireen Collective in Cairo. Since 2011, Hamilton has made dozens of short documentaries on the Egyptian revolution, helping to make Mosireen the most watched non-profit YouTube channel in Egypt. His third fiction short, Though I Know the River is Dry, will screen at TPFF 2013 on Tuesday October 1 at 9pm with Khaled Jarrar's Infiltrators.

Udi Aloni is an artist, writer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the interrelationships between art, theory and action. His artworks and his films have been shown in various museums and festivals, including the Metropolitan Museum and the Berlin Film Festival. In 2009, he joined the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp. After the assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis in 2011, he staged an Arabic adaptation of Waiting for Godot with Juliano's graduate students. Aloni's book, What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters, was published by Columbia University Press in 2011. His film Art/Violence will screen at TPFF 2013 on Monday September 30 at 9pm.

The panel will be moderated by Richard Fung, TPFF advisor, film professor at OCADU and filmmaker.