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Jen Marlowe is an award-winning American filmmaker, author, playwright, and human rights activist.

Career
Jen Marlowe has directed and produced five films and co-written three books.

Her documentary, Rebuilding Hope, shown at the Paris International Human Rights Film Festival, focuses on the return of three Lost Boys of the Sudan to their home country twenty years after leaving for the United States. The film went on to win the Most Transformative Film Award (Crossroad Film Festival in Jackson, Mississippi - 2010), the Silver Palm Award (Mexico International Film Festival, Mexico - 2010), and an Honorable Mention (Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, North Dakota - 2010). A grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting supported the project. Her short film, One Family in Gaza, won the 2013 Audience Award at the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival.

Her book, The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey From Prisoner to Peacemaker, co-authored with Sam al Jundi, won the Palestine Book Award from The Middle East Monitor. Her writing has also been featured in The Nation,, TomDispatch and Mother Jones

She serves on the board of The Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre (N.Y.).

Directing/producing

 * Darfur Diaries: Message From Home: (with Adam Shapiro and Aisha Bain)
 * Rebuilding Hope
 * One Family in Gaza

Writing
Marlowe has co-written three non-fiction books, mostly on similar subject matter to her documentaries.


 * Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
 * ''The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker" (with Sam al Jundi)

Filmography

 * Darfur Diaries: Message From Home (2006)- with Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro
 * Rebuilding Hope (2009)
 * One Family in Gaza (2011) - short documentary video
 * A Life in the Balance: Examining the Troy Davis Case (2011) - short documentary video, with Laura Moye

Television appearance

 * Democracy Now! (9 May 2008)

Category:Living people Category:American alternative journalists Category:American anti-war activists Category:American documentary filmmakers Category:American film directors Category:People from Seattle Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni Category:Youth empowerment individuals Category:Youth rights individuals Category:Progressivism in the United States