[INTO MUSIC]
MOVIE NARRATOR: Yes, in Lebanon, legends of centuries
spring from the very stones.
Whilst here, the Lebanese version of "Dolce Vita" is in
full swing.
And exactly how dolce can vita be?
Well, just you watch.
[MOVIE MUSIC OVERLAID ON STREET SOUNDS]
SHANE: We're going from where our neighborhood is, in Hamra,
and we're going to Burj El-Barajneh camp to see our
buddies who we left some cameras with.
AHMAD: We can see everything in the camp.
SHANE: Everything that's here.
AHMAD: Actually, it's dangerous for us to be here.
SHANE: Why?
The power.
AHMAD: The power and electricity.
SHANE: Really?
AHMAD: In the winter, every day we
have electric explosion.
SHANE: Really?
When we returned to Beirut, we found that Ahmad had not only
been using the camera, but had actually shot a short film.
It's about a one-armed pool player who
grows up in the camps.
Last time we saw you was last year, just after the war.
And we give you a camera.
So tell us what happened.
[SPEAKING LEBANESE]
SHANE: How did he lose his hand?
Three years old.
And he lost it in the war?
[SPEAKING LEBANESE]
SHANE: Are there are a lot of Palestinian filmmakers that
came out of the camps?
Ahmad also found another use for the camera.
Because it's nearly impossible for him to get a job, he used
the camera to shoot weddings and engagement parties,
birthday parties, and get paid.
But it also turned out to be training, because his next
project is a love story set in the camps.
So just to reiterate, you're living in one of the most
hopeless, depressing, fucked up places on earth, and the
film you're dying to make is a love story.
[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC]