Singer-songwriter and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has signed on as executive producer on filmmaker Rishi Pelham’s debut feature documentary, “Freedom Theatre.”
Described as “an immersive and sensory character study,” the film follows resistance fighter turned artist Ahmed Tobasi into the creative heart of the Jenin refugee camp in Palestine, where he fights to keep his theater open amidst imminent destruction.
Courtesy of Rishi Pelham/Bathtub Films
“I didn’t intentionally set out to make this film,” Pelham said. “I kept returning to Jenin, to the theater, to the camp, and over time the story insisted on being told. What drew me in was the tension between two worlds: the black-box rehearsal room, sealed and controllable, and the camp outside, alive, volatile, and impossible to contain. Slowly, these spaces began to bleed into one another.”
Pelham also co-composed the documentary’s original score, which features prominent Palestinian artists such as techno DJ and producer Sama’ Abdulhadi.
