sentences:  Brunner describes a "watershed moment" he experienced in 1988 after reading "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949" by Benny Morris, whereupon he envisioned making the book into a film.This was the impetus for his conception of "", the first documentary film to examine the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians during the birth of the state of Israel.Brunner toured with "Al-Nakba" to discuss the subject with audiences in Israel and San Francisco.