Agency - English program:.Ontario Centre. Agency:.Produced by Graphic Pictures in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, with the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council's Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Fameline Finishing Fund, Jerome Foundation and Wexner Centre for the Arts.

Director, Elle Flanders ; editor, Cathy Gulkin ; cinematographer, Christopher Romeike ; composer, David Wall ; producer, Elle Flanders, Peter Starr ; executive producer, Silva Basmajian ; location sound, Tully Chen ; sound design, Jane Tattersall, Kathy Choi, Jean Bot ; re-recording, Dino Pigat.

Recorded 2005.

Zero Degrees of Separation breaks with the sensationalistic media coverage of the violence in the Middle East by documenting the everyday lives of two mixed gay Palestinian-Israeli couples. Faced with modern injustices of work visas, checkpoints, harassment and prejudices, these courageous and outspoken individuals resist attempts at oppresssion and take small steps each day to build a sense of peace, mutual respect and hope. Drawing the past into the present, the director interweaves her own rich narrative of growing up with Zionist grandparents who were intimately involved in the founding of the state of Israel. Their archival home movies that evoke an idealized Israel of the 1950s now take on a haunting quality that summons larger questions of humanity, conflict and nationalist aspiration.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Public Award for Best Feature Documentary - with a cash prize of 3,048Euros ($4,300Cdn approx), 2006 Honourable Mention - Best Canadian Feature-Length Narrative or Documentary, 2005 Michael J. Berg Documentary Award for Excellence in Documentary, 2005 Silver Conch Award for Best Documentary Feature Length Film, 2006 Audience Award for Best Documentary, 2005 Honourable Mention, 2005 Honorable Mention - Category: Social Issues, 2006

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).