Johnny Karlitch

Johnny Karlitch is a scenario writer and journalist Lebanon board.

Biography

Johnny Karlitch was born on January 4th 1958, with Beirut. In 1990, joining a small station of television set of themes, Antenna More, the friend of the children, it ensures it the realization and the production of three programs, before proposing, in 1992, its services with a Lebanese professional chain, NewTV: from 1992 with 1994, he will be originator and realizer of four programs sociocultural, educational and diverting.

In 1995, it decides to turn to the preparation of cinematographic projects, and carries out thirteen documentary, ordered by the Lebanese ministry of the Culture. In 1997, it joined the group of writers freelance journalists of a French-speaking Lebanese monthly magazine, Noun, of which he will become the sub-editor in 1999.

This year, it produces and carries out the documentary one, “Beirut, heart and body”, a vision of the town of Beirut which it describes as documentary fable. Parallel to its activities of journalist, it acquires in 2002 a MiniDV camera, convinced that the numerical one will allow him réapproprier the means of production of the cinema. It then turns its first short film of fiction, “Aquarius”. As a one-man band, Johnny Karlitch cumulates the functions to finalize this film, with the assistance of professionals and of impassioned cinema.

In 2004, it carries out two short films, “the eighth messenger” and “Lost in Lynch”; and a third, in 2006, “One day of July, southern suburbs of Beirut”, all three turned in MiniDV.

Currently (June 2007), it has just finalized documentary its production and realization (which it also filmed and went up), turned in MiniDV, one 52 minutes duration, entitled “In the limbs of arbitrary”, of which here the synopsis: “Of the disabled beings, weakened, have lived, since nearly thirty years for some, for more than seventeen years for the majority, in No man' S existential Land, in waiting of the improbable return of a beloved close relation, removed in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990 by the militia and envoy thereafter in arbitrary detention in Syria. Odette, Fatmé, Mirinda, Sonia, Samia and Mahmoud tell this interminable daily newspaper which is theirs since so many years. Comforted and supported by their gathering within Solid (Support for Lebanese in detention and exile), they carry out together a peaceful combat in a drawn up tent, since April 2005, vis-a-vis the seat of Escwa, in Beirut. This documentary reveals their suffering, their anguishes, but also their hope and their determination not to lower the arms in front of an iniquitous accomplished fact. ”

Censor's certificate refused!

“In the limbs of arbitrary” comes to be prohibited of diffusion by the Lebanese authorities, and this in spite of its strictly human and humanistic approach of an intolerable situation lived by the parents of the arbitrary prisoners in Syria, since many years.

It goes without saying this film should not be reduced to silence outside Lebanon.

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