Mostafa Elghalayini built the Friends Club equestrian and sports facility for his community in Gaza City, centered around his love of horse riding and a desire to create a safe haven for children in Gaza.
War ravaged Mostafa’s community after October 7, 2023, and he was forced to evacuate his home, leaving behind his beloved horses.
He found a brief refuge training horses in northern California but yearns to return to his homeland, find the horses that may still be alive and rebuild a space where children can heal and find peace again.
FILMMAKERS
Lauren Capps (Director/Producer) was a producer on the NBC News Studios series, The Sing Sing Chronicles, which premiered at DOC NYC 2024 and aired on MSNBC. It won several awards, including Best Documentary at the 2025 News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Lauren was a story producer for Trilogy Films projects Rise Again: Tulsa and The Red Summer (National Geographic), John Lewis: Good Trouble (CNN Films), Bobby Kennedy for President (Netflix), and Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court (Showtime/Paramount +), which received the 2024 Television Academy Honors. She co-produced Harvest Season, broadcast on PBS Independent Lens and produced several episodes of the documentary series Fault Lines. She has also worked on documentary films and multipart series for PBS FRONTLINE, Univisión, Al Jazeera, HBO, Peacock, Maxine Productions, MediaStorm, Center for Investigative Reporting, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, among others.
Isabeau Doucet (Director/Producer) has been reporting and producing for more than 15 years, from Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, to the European refugee crisis to covering the fallout of ICE raids on undocumented communities in Northern California for the Guardian. She has investigated the impact of the Gaza war on refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S. Isabeau is a two-time Emmy award-winning producer and illustrator, was a founding member of AJ+ and has produced short documentaries for Al Jazeera‘s investigative show, Fault Lines and Bloomberg Originals.
Adrienne Haspel (Editor/Producer) is the editor/story producer of Al Jazeera English's multiple award-winning current affairs documentary series, Fault Lines. She's recently worked on "Kids Under Fire" that won a Peabody Award, an Emmy Award for Outstanding War or Violent Conflict Coverage and the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award in the International Outstanding Video category. A Fault Lines feature film she co-created "The Night Won't End - Biden's War on Gaza" won a Peabody Award, a Royal Television Society Award in the International Current Affairs category as well as the Overseas Press Club of America Award for best documentary on international affairs. She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Editing for Fault Lines episode "The Children of the Darien Gap".