Origin Stories: Yousef Srouji on Three Promises
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hey, folks. This week, NO SUCH THING is hosting Origin Stories, a new podcast from Campside Media. Each week, veteran journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hearts, and this episode is the perfect example. Palestinian filmmaker Yousef Srouji is the creator of the critically-acclaimed documentary "Three Promises," which uses his mother’s old home video footage to tell an intimate story of life during the Second Intifada. Srouji talks to Matthew about coming to documentary film as a newbie and learning the tools of the trade on the job. He also discusses the difficulty of finding distribution for “Three Promises,” despite the project being largely apolitical. Listen to Origin Stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Manny here. No such thing is actually off this week, but don't worry because we still |
| 0:04.9 | have something for you to listen to. This week, we're hosting an episode of Origin Stories, |
| 0:09.6 | a new show from Campside Media. Every week on Origin Stories, veteran journalist Matthew Scher |
| 0:15.5 | talks to a writer or a director about a project close to their heart. On this week's origin |
| 0:20.6 | stories, |
| 0:21.2 | Matthew talks to a Palestinian filmmaker |
| 0:23.5 | who uses his mother's old home video footage |
| 0:26.5 | to tell a story about what it was like |
| 0:28.3 | to live in the West Bank during the second Intifada. |
| 0:31.9 | No such thing will be back next week, |
| 0:33.7 | but in the meantime, enjoy this episode of Origin Stories. |
| 0:39.7 | Campsite Media. |
| 0:45.2 | Suha films everything. |
| 0:48.2 | Birthday, bedtime routines, |
| 0:50.8 | Christmas and holidays. |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah. teens, Christmas and holidays. |
| 1:03.7 | She lives in the West Bank with her husband and two young children. |
| 1:07.7 | She's got a relatively comfortable middle class life. |
| 1:13.3 | But all that changes in the early 2000s during what's known as the second intifada, a mass Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation. When Israel launches a round |
| 1:20.9 | of retaliatory attacks, Suha does what she's always done. She picks up her camera and films it all. |
| 1:31.2 | The barrages of bombs, the late night sheltered in the basement, her children's panic. |
| 1:40.1 | And somehow, even in the middle of it all, Suha captures an intimate and truly remarkable portrait |
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