George Gittoes is an Australian painter, photographer, and filmmaker committed to creating art in the face of war. He established the Yellow House (an homage to Vincent van Gogh’s unrealized dream of creating a haven for artists at his home in Arles, France) in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in 2008 with partner Hellen Rose as a creative sanctuary and media training center. Encouraged to travel to New York by Clement Greenberg in 1968, Gittoes shot casting reels for Andy Warhol at the latter’s studio, The Factory, and collaborated with African American activist Joseph Delaney in making art in support of the civil rights movement. His paintings have twice won the Blake Prize for Religious Art; his films and documentaries have aired throughout the world; in 1997 he was honored with an Order of Australia for “service to art and international relations”; in 2015 he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. His autobiography, Blood Mystic, was published in 2016; and he is currently shooting White Light, a film in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, and working to expand the Yellow House in Jalalabad.