With an insider’s perspective rarely glimpsed amid the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict, directors Mohammed Abugeth and Daniel Carsenty reveal the daily struggles of the daring drivers attempting to earn a hard-won living by illegally transporting West Bank laborers across the border while under constant military surveillance.
This gritty vérité doc, assembled over eight years of intermittent shooting, attests to the determination and resilience of local residents enduring endemic harassment and violence, and determined to provide for their families and preserve their way of life. Internationally inclined festivals will welcome The Devil’s Drivers, while an intrepid streamer seems likely to find a slot for the ...
This gritty vérité doc, assembled over eight years of intermittent shooting, attests to the determination and resilience of local residents enduring endemic harassment and violence, and determined to provide for their families and preserve their way of life. Internationally inclined festivals will welcome The Devil’s Drivers, while an intrepid streamer seems likely to find a slot for the ...
- 9/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
With an insider’s perspective rarely glimpsed amid the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict, directors Mohammed Abugeth and Daniel Carsenty reveal the daily struggles of the daring drivers attempting to earn a hard-won living by illegally transporting West Bank laborers across the border while under constant military surveillance.
This gritty vérité doc, assembled over eight years of intermittent shooting, attests to the determination and resilience of local residents enduring endemic harassment and violence, and determined to provide for their families and preserve their way of life. Internationally inclined festivals will welcome The Devil’s Drivers, while an intrepid streamer seems likely to find a slot for the ...
This gritty vérité doc, assembled over eight years of intermittent shooting, attests to the determination and resilience of local residents enduring endemic harassment and violence, and determined to provide for their families and preserve their way of life. Internationally inclined festivals will welcome The Devil’s Drivers, while an intrepid streamer seems likely to find a slot for the ...
- 9/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filmed over the course of nearly a decade The Devil’s Drivers is a modern-day “1970s car chase thriller” shot mainly from inside the weathered vehicles of human traffickers. But in Mohammed Abugeth and Daniel Carsenty’s edge-of-your-seat feature these daredevil smugglers prove a far cry from any Hollywood baddie. Zooming through the West Bank desert on their lawbreaking quest to transport desperate Palestinian workers across the border into Israel, the Bedouin drivers bravely dodge occupying forces day in and day out, risking serious jail time for a pittance. Bonded with their cargo in economic need, in the desire just to feed […]
The post “We had no bulletproof vests, no armored jeep, just our smiles and good nature”: Mohammed Abugeth and Daniel Carsenty on their TIFF-Debuting Doc The Devil’s Drivers first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “We had no bulletproof vests, no armored jeep, just our smiles and good nature”: Mohammed Abugeth and Daniel Carsenty on their TIFF-Debuting Doc The Devil’s Drivers first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 9/12/2021
- by Lauren Wissot
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