Rebekah Wingert-Jabi

Rebekah Wingert-Jabi runs Storycatcher Productions, a film and video company based in the DC area. For 20 years, her focus has been on creating emotionally powerful, visually rich narratives about the people whose ideas and actions have inspired change in their communities. Her work has been screened at festivals around the world, and honored with numerous prizes including the prestigious George Foster Peabody award.

A commitment to international peacebuilding led Wingert-Jabi to live and work in Jerusalem and the West Bank for eight years. Wingert-Jabi worked with the nonprofit, nonpartisan group, Just Vision, to produce documentaries about the region. She co-directed, with award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha, My Neighbourhood, about a nonviolent movement to resist the forced evictions of Palestinians. Next she directed, produced and edited Homefront, a series of five short films about the struggle to stop settlement expansion. Wingert-Jabi also produced and edited the feature length-documentary Naila and the Uprising about the women leaders of the first intifada.

Closer to home, Wingert-Jabi produced, directed and edited Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA, a feature documentary about how this planned community was designed to integrate citizens across racial, economic, and religious divides.

Passionate about giving young people the tools to tell their own stories, Wingert-Jabi mentors young people through the internship program at Storycatcher. She has taught video and film production at Dar Al Kalima College in the West Bank, and in the U.S. at American University and George Mason University.

Wingert-Jabi received her MFA in Film and Television Production from University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Degrees

• MFA, Film and Television Production, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts