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"As a Palestinian here, I don't exist." Film Movement has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled H2: The Occupation Lab, from filmmakers Idit Avrahami & Noam Sheizaf. It was originally made and finished in 2022 before the current Israel-Palestine war broke out. It premiered in 2022 at the Docaviv Film Festival in Israel, and will be relased in the US sometime this year. H2 is the name given to the eastern part of Hebron - the only Palestinian city with a Jewish settlement in it. Here, along a one-Kilometer road, lies the holy Tomb of the Patriarchs, where both Jews & Muslims believe their common father, Abraham, is buried. This is also where the massacre of 1929, known as "year zero" of the conflict, took place; where the Jewish settlement movement was born, and where the policy of ethnic separation was first implemented by the military. With rare archive footage...
- 4/21/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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Further deals for Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Turkey.
Film Movement has taken US distribution rights to H2: The Occupation Lab, a documentary by Israeli filmmakers Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf.
Acquiring the film from UK-based sales firm MetFilm Sales, Film Movement is planning a theatrical release on the title for an as-yet unscheduled date.
MetFilm Sales has also secured deals for Sweden (Svt), Switzerland (Rts), Finland (Yle) and Turkey (Trt).
H2: The Occupation Lab debuted at Docaviv documentary festival in Tel Aviv, Israel in May last year. It documents the impact that Jewish settlers and military occupation have had...
Film Movement has taken US distribution rights to H2: The Occupation Lab, a documentary by Israeli filmmakers Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf.
Acquiring the film from UK-based sales firm MetFilm Sales, Film Movement is planning a theatrical release on the title for an as-yet unscheduled date.
MetFilm Sales has also secured deals for Sweden (Svt), Switzerland (Rts), Finland (Yle) and Turkey (Trt).
H2: The Occupation Lab debuted at Docaviv documentary festival in Tel Aviv, Israel in May last year. It documents the impact that Jewish settlers and military occupation have had...
- 4/4/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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The Israeli government’s efforts to reserve state funding only for films that uphold the regime’s far-right agenda is causing growing alarm among local filmmakers.
Since taking office in December, culture minister Miki Zohar has pushed for new requirements that would force artists and filmmakers to guarantee their works will not tarnish Israel’s reputation or that of its military. He also examined the possibility of forcing the producers of the documentaries “H2: The Occupation Lab” and “Two Kids A Day” to pay back state funding for the films.
The move comes against the backdrop of planned reforms by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government — which is believed to be the most right-wing regime in Israel’s history — that include the possible gutting of public television in the name of free market competition.
Israel’s communications ministry has since said it will freeze plans to defund public broadcaster Kan,...
Since taking office in December, culture minister Miki Zohar has pushed for new requirements that would force artists and filmmakers to guarantee their works will not tarnish Israel’s reputation or that of its military. He also examined the possibility of forcing the producers of the documentaries “H2: The Occupation Lab” and “Two Kids A Day” to pay back state funding for the films.
The move comes against the backdrop of planned reforms by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government — which is believed to be the most right-wing regime in Israel’s history — that include the possible gutting of public television in the name of free market competition.
Israel’s communications ministry has since said it will freeze plans to defund public broadcaster Kan,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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Exclusive: Alon Schwarz’s hard-hitting documentary Tantura, revisiting the conflicting accounts around an alleged massacre of the residents of a Palestinian village by Israeli fighters in 1948, will open the 16th edition of New York’s Other Israel Film Festival.
The festival run by The Marlene Meyerson Jcc Manhattan (Mmjccm) will showcase more than a dozen works exploring Israeli and Palestinian societies.
Schwarz’s documentary world premiered at Sundance. It explores a contested massacre during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, touching on how the different narratives around that period feed into the Middle East conflict to this day.
Other Israel Film Festival executive director Isaac Zablocki, who is also head of Mmjccm’s film center, acknowledges the film could prove a controversial choice for the opening film but emphasized he hopes it will prompt “proper debate”.
“It raises important questions in such a way that starts a conversation as opposed to a way that is preaching at you.
The festival run by The Marlene Meyerson Jcc Manhattan (Mmjccm) will showcase more than a dozen works exploring Israeli and Palestinian societies.
Schwarz’s documentary world premiered at Sundance. It explores a contested massacre during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, touching on how the different narratives around that period feed into the Middle East conflict to this day.
Other Israel Film Festival executive director Isaac Zablocki, who is also head of Mmjccm’s film center, acknowledges the film could prove a controversial choice for the opening film but emphasized he hopes it will prompt “proper debate”.
“It raises important questions in such a way that starts a conversation as opposed to a way that is preaching at you.
- 10/3/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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“H2: The Occupation Lab,” a documentary by Israeli filmmakers Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf, chronicles the impact Jewish settlers and military occupation have had on the Palestinian city of Hebron and how the repressive methods of control there are being widely adopted in other areas of the occupied territories.
The film screens in the Zurich Film Festival’s Border Lines sidebar, which showcases works that deal with territorial and social conflicts and humanitarian issues.
Avrahami and Sheizaf had long wanted to collaborate on a project about the West Bank. “We both feel that the occupation is the most urgent issue Israeli filmmakers face,” says Sheizaf.
It was ultimately the shocking 2016 killing of a young Palestinian man by an Israeli soldier that led Avrahami and Sheizaf to focus on Hebron. A video of the incident taken by Imad Abu Shamsiya (pictured) showed the soldier, Elor Azaria, executing 21-year-old Abdel Fattah...
The film screens in the Zurich Film Festival’s Border Lines sidebar, which showcases works that deal with territorial and social conflicts and humanitarian issues.
Avrahami and Sheizaf had long wanted to collaborate on a project about the West Bank. “We both feel that the occupation is the most urgent issue Israeli filmmakers face,” says Sheizaf.
It was ultimately the shocking 2016 killing of a young Palestinian man by an Israeli soldier that led Avrahami and Sheizaf to focus on Hebron. A video of the incident taken by Imad Abu Shamsiya (pictured) showed the soldier, Elor Azaria, executing 21-year-old Abdel Fattah...
- 9/23/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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Pride
“Trixie Motel,” starring drag legend and “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” winner Trixie Mattel, “Book of Queer,” “Generation Drag” and “Control” are among the new Discovery+ originals commemorating U.K. Pride Month in June. 2022 marks 50 years of Pride in the U.K. and a dedicated content collection celebrating the Lgbtqia+ community is available via Discovery+ in the U.K. and Ireland from June 1.
Eight-parter “Trixie Motel” follows Mattel and her partner and property co-owner, David Silver, as they tackle the massive overhaul of a mid-century motel in Palm Springs, California and secures “free labour” from friends including Lisa Vanderpump, Zooey Deschanel, Iggy Azalea and Belinda Carlisle. Six-parter “Generation Drag” is a documentary series, executive produced by Tyra Banks, that follows five teen and tween drag performers from across the U.S. A as they prepare for drag ball Dragutante.
Five-parter “The Book of Queer” highlights some of history’s...
“Trixie Motel,” starring drag legend and “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” winner Trixie Mattel, “Book of Queer,” “Generation Drag” and “Control” are among the new Discovery+ originals commemorating U.K. Pride Month in June. 2022 marks 50 years of Pride in the U.K. and a dedicated content collection celebrating the Lgbtqia+ community is available via Discovery+ in the U.K. and Ireland from June 1.
Eight-parter “Trixie Motel” follows Mattel and her partner and property co-owner, David Silver, as they tackle the massive overhaul of a mid-century motel in Palm Springs, California and secures “free labour” from friends including Lisa Vanderpump, Zooey Deschanel, Iggy Azalea and Belinda Carlisle. Six-parter “Generation Drag” is a documentary series, executive produced by Tyra Banks, that follows five teen and tween drag performers from across the U.S. A as they prepare for drag ball Dragutante.
Five-parter “The Book of Queer” highlights some of history’s...
- 6/1/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Exclusive: Tel Aviv’s CoPro 24 — The Israeli Coproduction Market will welcome back the international doc community for the first time in two years later this month. The event, which has over the years unveiled award-winning features such as The Gatekeepers and Advocate, has also unveiled an initial slate of 13 projects.
CoPro 24, organised by CoPro – Israeli Content Marketing Foundation, will run between May 31-June 3 in Israel’s second city, the first time it has been held in person since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. The event aims to expose Israeli projects to the international market at early stage and includes pitches, screenings and meetings.
Decision makers attending including Discovery+ VP of Documentaries Igal Svet, France Télévisions Commissioning Editor Renaud Allilaire and BBC Storyville Commissioning Editor Philippa Kowarsky, along with the likes of Arte G.E.I.E. Commissioning Editor Catherine Le Goff, Deckert Distribution Sales Agent Patrizia Mancini...
CoPro 24, organised by CoPro – Israeli Content Marketing Foundation, will run between May 31-June 3 in Israel’s second city, the first time it has been held in person since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. The event aims to expose Israeli projects to the international market at early stage and includes pitches, screenings and meetings.
Decision makers attending including Discovery+ VP of Documentaries Igal Svet, France Télévisions Commissioning Editor Renaud Allilaire and BBC Storyville Commissioning Editor Philippa Kowarsky, along with the likes of Arte G.E.I.E. Commissioning Editor Catherine Le Goff, Deckert Distribution Sales Agent Patrizia Mancini...
- 5/4/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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MGM Worldwide Television Distribution has boarded “The Devil Speaks – Eichmann’s Lost Confession,” a riveting documentary revealing a long-hidden, bombshell interview conducted by a Nazi journalist with Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
Produced by Israel’s leading outfit Tadmor Entertainment and Steve Stark’s Toluca Pictures, “The Devil Speaks – Eichmann’s Lost Confession” will world premiere on opening night of Docaviv, the Tel Aviv-based documentary film festival, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Eichmann trial.
Yariv Mozer, a well-respected investigative documentary filmmakers whose credits include “Ben-Gurion, Epilogue,” was able to track down the original recording reels which had mysteriously disappeared for several decades. In the interview, Eichmann speaks candidly about his operational role during the holocaust, therefore contradicting the claims he made during his trial that was just a bureaucrat who fulfilled orders. The documentary also sheds light on the hidden motives that acted to conceal these recordings.
“The...
Produced by Israel’s leading outfit Tadmor Entertainment and Steve Stark’s Toluca Pictures, “The Devil Speaks – Eichmann’s Lost Confession” will world premiere on opening night of Docaviv, the Tel Aviv-based documentary film festival, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Eichmann trial.
Yariv Mozer, a well-respected investigative documentary filmmakers whose credits include “Ben-Gurion, Epilogue,” was able to track down the original recording reels which had mysteriously disappeared for several decades. In the interview, Eichmann speaks candidly about his operational role during the holocaust, therefore contradicting the claims he made during his trial that was just a bureaucrat who fulfilled orders. The documentary also sheds light on the hidden motives that acted to conceal these recordings.
“The...
- 4/6/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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