Amidst the nonstop documentary shooting in Sakhnin, we took a quick side trip to nearby Kishorit Village, a live/work community for special needs adults. Kishorit recently started a communications program, and ten of the residents – under the guidance of an Israeli producer and his editor wife – have begun learning how to shoot documentaries digitally, how to piece footage together using Final Cut.

One of the residents, Aviv Wolkowicki, spends most of his day cranking out screenplays that become the basis of some of the group’s films. He’s in his mid-forties, and, despite being mildly mentally retarded, speaks and writes English extremely well. When he’s not writing screenplays, he writes letters to Americans, hoping for a letter in response. Over the past three years he’s been doing this, he’s yet to receive back a single letter. So, if you’d like to accrue some very good karma rather easily, write him a short note and send it along. The American post-mark alone should more than make his week.

You can mail him at:

Aviv Wolkowicki
Kishorit Village
M.P. Bik’at Bet Hakerem 25149
Israel

I’m sure he’d very much appreciate it.