After the October 7th Hamas massacre, Israeli and Palestinian students formed Middle Meets - a forum where Palestinians, Jews and international students can speak openly about the roots of the conflict.

ABOUT

"Shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel I learned about Middle Meets from my friend, Professor Elitzure Bar-Asher Siegal at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Moved by the courage, sacrifice and on-going efforts of the university students. I began helping support the fledgling group in any way I could. When Palestinian, Jewish and American Middle Meets students were invited to Rome to continue their dialogues, I joined them to film and interview the participants. The result of that trip is In the Middle.

Since then, Middle Meets has continued to grow, with new groups of Jewish, Palestinian, and internation students meeting in Spain, Germany, the USA, and again in Rome - engaging in difficult conversations guided by Middle Meets alumni."

- David Ullendorff

FILM MAKERS

David Ullendorff, Co-Director / Producer

David grew up in Munich, studied biology at SUNY at Stony Brook, and filmmaking at the American Film Institute and UCLA. He worked for many years in film as a production manager, with his own award-winning directing and writing projects airing on TNT, A&E, and Showtime. In 1993, as personal computers were becoming widely available, he left the entertainment industry to help found Futurekids—a company dedicated to teaching children how to code and use computers. In 2002, David co-founded Mathnasium, which has since grown into an international network of more than 1,200 math learning centers worldwide.

Felix Chamberlain, Co-Director / Producer

Felix was born and raised in Northern California. He studied filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute which was followed by a ten-year stint as a talent scout and Director of A&R at Warner Bros Records. He then continued his film studies at the American Film Institute, getting his master’s degree in Editing. Over the next 25 years he edited a variety of Reality TV shows while he and his wife raised their family. He now lives back in NorCal editing, producing and directing unique, intelligent, entertaining films in the hopes of helping course-correct the trajectory of our current society.