“Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre,” a one-hour documentary chronicling the attack perpetrated by Hamas during a music festival in southern Israel, has been acquired by broadcasters around the world.
The anticipated documentary will premiere on Kan in Israel on Dec. 23. It has now been picked up by BBC World Service, Zdf in Germany, Svt in Sweden, Dr in Denmark, Rai in Italy, Vrt in Belgium, Canal+ Group’s CNews in France and Record TV in Brazil. The doc was also nabbed by a major U.K. broadcaster.
London-based Tvf International will be handling worldwide sales going forward and is closing deals with further broadcast partners. The documentary was produced by Reinhardt Beetz and Duki Dror (“Inside the Mossad” Netflix and Wdr/Arte), who also co-directed with award-winning filmmaker Yossi Bloch and Satisfaction Group’s Arthur Essebag.
In the emotional documentary, survivors of the massacre and first responders share their harrowing stories...
The anticipated documentary will premiere on Kan in Israel on Dec. 23. It has now been picked up by BBC World Service, Zdf in Germany, Svt in Sweden, Dr in Denmark, Rai in Italy, Vrt in Belgium, Canal+ Group’s CNews in France and Record TV in Brazil. The doc was also nabbed by a major U.K. broadcaster.
London-based Tvf International will be handling worldwide sales going forward and is closing deals with further broadcast partners. The documentary was produced by Reinhardt Beetz and Duki Dror (“Inside the Mossad” Netflix and Wdr/Arte), who also co-directed with award-winning filmmaker Yossi Bloch and Satisfaction Group’s Arthur Essebag.
In the emotional documentary, survivors of the massacre and first responders share their harrowing stories...
- 12/20/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmakers of “Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre” have unveiled a first-look trailer of the harrowing documentary film, which charts the dramatic events that took place during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack at a music festival in Southern Israel through the eyes of survivors.
Currently in production, the immersive one-hour film features eyewitness accounts from survivors of the massacre and first responders, as well as real-time footage collected from multiple sources. In addition, the doc provides a timeline of the attack, in which 365 attendees were killed, hundreds wounded and 40 kidnapped. The film portrays several survivors, one of whom hid a shelter that was hit by a grenade, as well as parents whose children have been taken hostage.
“Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre” is being made by a stellar team, including producers Reinhardt Beetz, Duki Dror (“Inside the Mossad”) and leading Israeli producer/EP Danna Stern. The documentary is also a collective effort that...
Currently in production, the immersive one-hour film features eyewitness accounts from survivors of the massacre and first responders, as well as real-time footage collected from multiple sources. In addition, the doc provides a timeline of the attack, in which 365 attendees were killed, hundreds wounded and 40 kidnapped. The film portrays several survivors, one of whom hid a shelter that was hit by a grenade, as well as parents whose children have been taken hostage.
“Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre” is being made by a stellar team, including producers Reinhardt Beetz, Duki Dror (“Inside the Mossad”) and leading Israeli producer/EP Danna Stern. The documentary is also a collective effort that...
- 11/29/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: A fast turnaround doc from filmmaker Duki Dror profiling the survivors of the surprise Hamas-led attack on a music festival in Israel is set to launch in Germany and France.
Hamas Festival Attack – The Survivors of the Desert Rave will launch on Arte as an ‘Arte Re:’ special on Tuesday, November 28 at 10:10 Pm in Germany and 10:50 Pm in France on Arte. Zdf is a shareholder in Arte Deutschland and often works with its French counterpart on doc programs.
An 50-minute international version is being readied under the title Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre by Leonine-owned producer Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion and Dror’s Zygote Films.
At least 365 people were killed when Hamas stormed the Supernova Sukkot Gathering near kibbutz Re’im as part of a coordinated attack on Israel on October 7. Around 40 more were kidnapped and taken to Gaza as hostages. Horrifying videos and images from the festival,...
Hamas Festival Attack – The Survivors of the Desert Rave will launch on Arte as an ‘Arte Re:’ special on Tuesday, November 28 at 10:10 Pm in Germany and 10:50 Pm in France on Arte. Zdf is a shareholder in Arte Deutschland and often works with its French counterpart on doc programs.
An 50-minute international version is being readied under the title Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre by Leonine-owned producer Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion and Dror’s Zygote Films.
At least 365 people were killed when Hamas stormed the Supernova Sukkot Gathering near kibbutz Re’im as part of a coordinated attack on Israel on October 7. Around 40 more were kidnapped and taken to Gaza as hostages. Horrifying videos and images from the festival,...
- 11/24/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Last year, the Academy documentary branch had to grapple with a record 170 documentary feature submissions for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. This year, it’s not so bad: only 166 were entered. The short list of 15 will be announced, along with eight others for the first time on a single date this year: December 17.
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume until last month, when they received a batch of 77, with more to come. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. Give the advantage to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” “Rbg,” and “Three Identical Strangers,” as well as September’s list including critically hailed “Dark Money,...
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume until last month, when they received a batch of 77, with more to come. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. Give the advantage to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” “Rbg,” and “Three Identical Strangers,” as well as September’s list including critically hailed “Dark Money,...
- 11/8/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Last year, the Academy documentary branch had to grapple with a record 170 documentary feature submissions for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. This year, it’s not so bad: only 166 were entered. The short list of 15 will be announced, along with eight others for the first time on a single date this year: December 17.
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume until last month, when they received a batch of 77, with more to come. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. Give the advantage to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” “Rbg,” and “Three Identical Strangers,” as well as September’s list including critically hailed “Dark Money,...
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume until last month, when they received a batch of 77, with more to come. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. Give the advantage to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” “Rbg,” and “Three Identical Strangers,” as well as September’s list including critically hailed “Dark Money,...
- 11/8/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
A whopping 166 documentary features have been submitted to the academy for consideration at the 2019 Oscars. That is down by four from last year’s record 170 submissions. Among these contenders are all of the highest grossing documentaries of the year including “Free Solo,” “Rbg” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
To winnow the entries down to the 15 semi-finalists that will be announced on December 17, the academy is sending monthly packages of the newly eligible documentary feature screeners to all 400 or so members of the documentary branch. While all members are encouraged to watch as many of these as they can, one-fifth of the voters are assigned each title. In late November, each branch member will submit a preferential ballot listing their top 15 choices.
See 2019 Oscars: Foreign-language film entries from A (Afghanistan) to Y (Yemen)
All of these ballots will be collated to determine the 15 semi-finalists. Branch members will then be...
To winnow the entries down to the 15 semi-finalists that will be announced on December 17, the academy is sending monthly packages of the newly eligible documentary feature screeners to all 400 or so members of the documentary branch. While all members are encouraged to watch as many of these as they can, one-fifth of the voters are assigned each title. In late November, each branch member will submit a preferential ballot listing their top 15 choices.
See 2019 Oscars: Foreign-language film entries from A (Afghanistan) to Y (Yemen)
All of these ballots will be collated to determine the 15 semi-finalists. Branch members will then be...
- 11/8/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
In a year that has seen multiple documentaries find mainstream success, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the list of 166 docs that have been submitted for Oscar consideration this year.
Among the films on the list are Michael Moore’s anti-Trump polemic “Fahrenheit 11/9,” as well as CNN Films’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg biography “Rbg” and Focus’ Mister Rogers retrospective “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Other films considered frontrunners include “Three Identical Strangers,” the wild story of triplets who were separated at birth by a bizarre experiment, “Free Solo,” which documents the first ever attempt to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan without any climbing gear, and “Dark Money,” an investigative report into the influence of billionaires on American democracy through the lens of a Montana congressional race.
Also Read: Sorry, Oscar Documentary Voters: Your Workload Just Doubled
The contender field is slightly less than last year’s record field of 170 but does include,...
Among the films on the list are Michael Moore’s anti-Trump polemic “Fahrenheit 11/9,” as well as CNN Films’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg biography “Rbg” and Focus’ Mister Rogers retrospective “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Other films considered frontrunners include “Three Identical Strangers,” the wild story of triplets who were separated at birth by a bizarre experiment, “Free Solo,” which documents the first ever attempt to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan without any climbing gear, and “Dark Money,” an investigative report into the influence of billionaires on American democracy through the lens of a Montana congressional race.
Also Read: Sorry, Oscar Documentary Voters: Your Workload Just Doubled
The contender field is slightly less than last year’s record field of 170 but does include,...
- 11/8/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
HBO has acquired all domestic television rights, including streaming, to Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan’s feature documentary “The Oslo Diaries,” the company announced Sunday. The film follows the secret 1992 negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders based on readings of the participants’ diaries from the time, interwoven with never-before-seen archival footage and exclusive interviews with key players, including the last on-camera conversation with former Israeli president Shimon Peres. The talks spanned a period of 1,100 days, and the film offers a portrait of diplomacy and the delicate nature of peace. HBO plans to debut the film later this year to commemorate...
- 1/28/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
As you made your film during the increasingly chaotic backdrop of the last year, how did you as a filmmaker control, ignore, give in to or, conversely, perhaps creatively exploit the wild and unpredictable? What roles did chaos and order play in your films? To edit The Oslo Diaries in this crazy political period was not easy. In a period during which peace is so out of reach, that only to say the word “peace” makes you sound naive and out of touch with reality, a period in which a new war happens every two years, it felt very subversive […]...
- 1/26/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Covering the secret talks between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in the 1990s, “The Oslo Diaries” should be a gripping documentary that’s depressingly relevant 25 years after the events it covers. When you describe the covert meeting in Norway, it feels like something out of a spy movie, though Hollywood would have given it a far happier ending. Unfortunately, this film from directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan removes much of the suspense, taking a standard nonfiction approach that is often dense and sometimes dull in its execution.
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Continue reading Documentary ‘The Oslo Diaries’ Doesn’t Do Its Subject Matter Justice [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
- 1/26/2018
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
Directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan hired two cinematographers to film The Oslo Diaries, their documentary on Israeli-Palestinian relations in the early 1990s. They did so for a specific reason: One cameraman (Avner Shahaf) would serve as lead Dp on interviews, while the other (Alex Margineau) would shoot the film’s reenactments. The latter footage – shot in the vein of such films as No and Stories We Tell – was shot to blend seamlessly with actual archival footage from the era. Below, both cinematographers discuss their experiences on the project, which screens in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker: How […]...
- 1/25/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Receiving its world premiere at Sundance,The Oslo Diaries is the latest from Israeli filmmakers Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, who last came to Park City with 2015’s Censored Voices, an exploration of Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War through long-buried audiotape interviews with its on-the-ground soldiers. A similar reexamination of history, The Oslo Diaries combines unseen-until-now archival footage with the personal diaries of, and present-day interviews with, the handful of participants in the top secret, backchannel — and ultimately doomed — peacemaking process that took place in Norway in the early ’90s. Filmmaker spoke with the two directors prior to Sundance about […]...
- 1/21/2018
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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