Slingshot Hip Hop is a 2008 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 directed by Jackie Reem Salloum which traces the history and development of Palestinian hip hop, in Palestine

Palestine

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 from the time DAM

DAM (band)

DAM is a Palestinian hip-hop group. Based in Lod, Israel, DAM was founded in 1999 by brothers Tamar and Suhell Nafar and their friend Mahmoud Jreri, and their songs are largely about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and poverty...

 pioneered the art form in the late 1990s. DAM, Palestinian Rapperz, Mahmoud Shalabi, and female artists Arapeyat and Sabreena Da Witch (Abeer).

The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

2008 Sundance Film Festival

The 2008 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 17, 2008 to January 27 in Park City, Utah. It was the 24th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. The opening night film was In Bruges and the closing night film was CSNY Déjà Vu.-Films:...

, and screened at the 2008 Chicago Palestine Film Festival

Chicago Palestine Film Festival

The Chicago Palestine Film Festival is an annual film festival begun in 2002 in Chicago and is one of the most important venues in the US for the screening of Palestinian cinema. It accepts works in a variety of genres — documentaries, dramas, comedies — in both long and short formats...

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It was also shown in the 12th Annual 2008 Arab Film Festival, where both the filmmaker Jackie Reem Salloum as well as the Palestinian rap trio DAM were present for the screenings. It was the opening night film at the 2008 Boston Palestine Film Festival

Boston Palestine Film Festival

The Boston Palestine Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Boston, Massachusetts which shows the Palestinian narrative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Started in 2007, the 2008 version highlighted Palestinian expulsion, also known as al-Nakba, while the opening night film was ...

, and also screened at the 2010 Palestine Film Festival Cyprus.

In August of 2008] Slingshot Hip Hop was shown to Palestinian

Palestinian people

The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

 youth in three of the country's Palestinian refugee camps; Shatila, Bourj al-Barajneh, and Bedawi.