Sunday Oct 19, 2025, JVP HAC webinar: Severed: film screening and discussion

Speakers:

Jen Marlowe is an author, documentary filmmaker, playwright, journalist and human rights activist. She founded Donkeysaddle Projects, which integrates art/storytelling, political education and activism/advocacy to fight state violence. She’s also a Consulting Producer for Just Vision. Jen’s documentary include Severed, There Is A Field, Remembering the Gaza War and Witness Bahrain. Her books include I Am Troy Davis (Haymarket Books 2013), The Hour of Sunlight (Nation Books, 2011) and Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival (Nation Books, 2006). Her writing can be found in The Nation, the Guardian, +972Magazine, Al Jazeera English,Tomdispatch.com, Seattle Times and Yes!   

Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay is a family doctor who has worked in a wide variety of settings in Montreal, in remote northern communities across Canada as well as abroad. He teaches at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is active in a number of social movements locally and globally, and has written essays and books on the ethics and history of medicine. He was in Gaza in June 2025 with Glia, a health solidarity organisation based in Canada.

Severed is grounded in the story of Mohamad Saleh, a teenager from Gaza who has survived five major Israeli assaults. In those attacks, he lost his home, close family members, his best friends, and—at the age of 12—his leg. Mohamad has lived for years with the physical and emotional impacts of that violence, including surviving genocide with an amputated limb. His story reflects the broader reality of thousands of other Palestinians whose disabilities are the direct result of Israel’s systematic violations of international law.

The film screening will be followed by a conversation with Jen Marlowe, consulting producer, and Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, a family doctor who worked in Gaza and has first hand knowledge of disability and the health care in the devastated region.