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The Vaccines 'I Wish I Was A Girl' by Yousef Eldin

The Vaccines 'I Wish I Was A Girl' by Yousef Eldin

David Knight - 17th Dec 2013

The song may be something of a throwback to the sexually subversive 1960s, but Yousef Eldin's video for The Vaccines' I Wish I Was A Girl challenges preconceptions in another way.

In an uplifting short doc, Yousef introduces three normal Palestinian young people, with hopes and ambitions that reflect a post-Arab Spring Middle East.   

Yousef Eldin:

"It was filmed in Ramallah and Jericho in Palestine and featured the three main cast members as themselves, Ayham is part of a band called Al Raseef, Nour is part of an all girls racing team called Speed Sisters and Abed is a teenager and budding graphic designer with plans to develop into the arts. 

"I'm based in London but we made contact with some people before traveling and then spent time there before the shoot to get to know them. We were keen to present a view of young people in the middle east that was the opposite of the usual politically charged stories from that region. 

"The short film/ documentary format appealed to the band as it is the end of that album for them and they were keen not to do any more films that they were the feature of, but were happy to the cutaways that appear in a TV screen in the kebab shop."

Watch 'The Vaccines 'I Wish I Was A Girl' by Yousef Eldin' here

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Yousef Eldin
Producer
Dan Dennison
Producer
Alice Wagstaffe
Production Company
Rattling Stick
Executive Producer
Geniveve Stevens, Ellie Fry

Camera

Director of Photography
Piers McGrail

Editorial

Editor
Jack Singer
Editing company

Grading

Colourist
Matt Hare
Grading company
Glassworks

VFX

Post production company
Framestore

Commission

Commissioner
Red Light Management
Label
Columbia Records

Other credits

Local Producer

Mashal Kawasamil

Additional Camera; Yousef Eldin, Jim Harrison

Cast

Noor Daoud Ayham Jalal Abed Al Rahman Murrar Mona Ennab A'el Raseef Band Hussien Abu Alwob Tamer William Nassar Mohammed A

Special Thanks

Mohammad Farouqe, Betty Saa'deh, Amber Fares, Khaled Qaddoura, Mazen Zoabi, Lama Suleiman, Edurne Bargueno, Brixton Windmill, Cerne Canning, Nicola Wright, Nick Chappell, Mohammed Farraj, Abdullah Murrar

David Knight - 17th Dec 2013

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