Virtual screening of the documentary film “Golden Harvest,” directed by Alia Yunis.

The Golden Harvest (shorter version) is a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including her own Palestinian father. It is a complicated romance, sometimes funny,sometimes tragic, set in a region that includes some of the poorest and most conflicted areas of Europe and the Middle East and .

About the Filmmaker
Alia Yunis, writer/director, has worked on film and writing projects in several countries.  Alia spent many years in Los Angeles as a screenwriter and script analyst for companies such as Village Roadshow Pictures and Miramax.  Alia is a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, has been a top ten finalist Zoetrope Screenwriting Awards and the recipient of a comedy-writing award from Warner Bros.  Her novel, The Night Counter (Random House 2010), was critically-acclaimed by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications.  Her fiction and nonfiction writings have appeared in numerous books, magazines and anthologies and have been translated into eight languages.  She has produced several short films, as well as the feature documentary, Man Hunt (2004), which played on the Oxygen Channel as a Valentine’s Day special.