Romeo Burner

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... win the prize for Best Live Action Short Film at the Academy Awards!

West Bank Story, this year's Oscar winner for best live action short film, takes the template of the Romeo and Juliet and applies it to the Israel-Palestine conflict, with two dueling falafel shops as backdrop.

The twist is that in West Bank Story, the star-crossed lovers are an Israeli soldier, David (Ben Newmark), stationed in a fictitious West Bank village and a young Palestinian woman, Fatima (Noureen DeWulf). The village is dominated by two competing humus joints - Kosher King, run by settlers, and The Humus Hut, where Fatima works with her brother.

Tensions mount when the Kosher King's new pastry machine juts onto Hummus Hut property. The Palestinians ruin the machine and the Israelis respond by building a wall between the two eating establishments.

At the end, the characters offer their own solution/hope to the Israeli/Arab conflict when the soldier suggests that if things don't work out for the lovers on the West Bank, they can go to a place where Jews and Muslims live in harmony: Beverly Hills.

See the Trailer

Congratulations to the filmmakers, Ari Sandel [Listen ], Kim Ray, and the their team on their success.

Here’s a shortened list of their awards as listed on the film’s website:

Total Festivals: 112
Festivals Won: 25

Total Number of Countries Screened in 21, including: USA, Canada, China, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, UK, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Croatia, India, Poland, Denmark, Russia.

[Cheba_Mami]

nice to read about

[Bent_Bladi]

cool!! pali hummos is the best

[amalgamate]

Haha! omg the songs are very amusing- They're a wierd mix of english folk songs with an arabic tableh!

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Romeo 2.0 has been released

Many new features have been added and a 30-day evaluation period is available for free @ Romeo Development Group.



Last week, the folks at Romeo Group also released a free version for Win 2000, XP and Vista, called
"Romeo Lite 2.0",
a small handy program that will help you create interesting CDs, containing all sort of data.
Here are some key features:

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Free! small and easy to use (to burn a disk just drag&drop required files and folders to the project pane or select files using "Add files to burn..." and "Add folder to burn..." menu items.) can burn CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs can erase disks support multisession disks (burn CD-R or DVD-R more than once).

Romeo Burner Lite can run unattended or can be integrated into Google Desktop Sidebar.

You can download this version @ homepage of Romeo Burner OR on CNET.





And for your suspicious nature, here is the summary of McAfee analysis for Romeo Burner:

2 green downloads - In our tests, we found downloads on this site were free of adware, spyware, and other potentially unwanted programs. < 1 e-mail/ month - After entering our e-mail address on this site, we received less than 1 e-mail per month. Linked to green sites - When we visited this site, we found that most of its links are to sites which are safe or have only minor safety/annoyance issues.

View detailed analysis here.