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Nat Geo’s “Genius: MLK/X,” Paramount+’s “We Will Dance Again” and Netflix’s “Will & Harper” are among the programs set to be recognized by the Television Academy for its 18th Television Academy Honors. The event aims to celebrate “programs across numerous platforms and genres that raise awareness about complex issues facing society.”

This year’s six honorees (four non-scripted and two scripted series) also include Netflix’s “Daughters,” PBS’ “Independent Lens: Greener Pastures” and Disney+’s “Out of My Mind.”

According to the org, the honorees tackled subjects including “transgender identity, friendships and allyship; the legacy of the prison-industrial complex on Black communities; mental health issues in farming families and communities; social justice and racism; the Americans with Disabilities Act and ‘special needs’ students; and the Israel/Palestine conflict.”

Singer, radio host and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” judge Michelle Visage will host this year’s TV Academy Honors ceremony,...

The Television Academy has announced its six recipients of its 18th Television Academy Honors, given to television programs and their producers who have leveraged the extraordinary power of television to advance social change.

This year’s honorees include compelling programs that address transgender identity, friendships and allyship; the legacy of the prison-industrial complex on Black communities; mental health issues in farming families and communities; social justice and racism; the Americans with Disabilities Act and “special needs” students; and the Israel/Palestine conflict.

The 2025 Television Academy Honors recipients, which include Emmy contenders “Will and Harper” and “Out of My Mind,” will be celebrated during a recognition ceremony slated for Wednesday, May 28, at the Sls Hotel in Los Angeles, California, hosted by “RuPaul’s Drag Race” judge Michelle Visage.

“Now more than ever, television serves as a powerful platform for information and discourse on important social issues that affect so many of us throughout the world,...

For concertgoers at the Nova Music Festival in Israel, the morning of Oct. 7 began with a beautiful sunrise, as DJs performed their propulsive rave tracks. But what was supposed to be a joyful, peaceful celebration of music and dance quickly turned into tragedy and horror, as Hamas initiated a terrorist attack against Israel — ultimately claiming the lives of hundreds of festivalgoers.

The events of the day are chronicled in the chilling documentary “We Will Dance Again,” which was nominated by the Producers Guild. Filmmaker Yariv Mozer uses cell-phone videos, social media posts, interviews with survivors, and Hamas footage to recreate a painstaking, minute-by-minute account of the day’s events.

SEEProducers Guild announces Feature Documentary nominees for 2025 PGA Awards: ‘Super/Man,’ ‘Gaucho Gaucho,’ ‘Porcelain War’ …

“On the 7th October, being a documentary filmmaker, I asked myself where and how should I contribute and where should I be?” he tells Gold Derby...

The Producers Guild has announced the nominees for its annual documentary award, throwing another curveball into an already unexpected race. None of the PGA’s nominees are in the top ten of expected Oscar doc nominees according to the latest Feinberg Forecast.

The PGA’s six nominees for outstanding producer of documentary motion pictures are:

Gaucho Gaucho

Mediha

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

Porcelain War

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

We Will Dance Again

The PGA does have a history of deviating from the Oscars; last year only one of its nominees, 20 Days in Mariupol, also made the Academy grouping. Still, the highest-ranked of the PGA docs on the projected Oscar list are Ukrainian-artist film Porcelain War at No. 11 and Super/Man at No. 12.

Notably the No. 2 movie on the Forecast, the left-minded Occupied Territories documentary No Other Land, did not make the PGA cut while We Will Dance Again,...

Prominent industry insiders are gathering support for Oscar consideration for the documentary “We Will Dance Again,” which chronicles the horror that unfolded at Israel’s Nova International Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023.

Producer Marc Platt, Sean Penn, music mogul Scooter Braun and former HBO and MTV documentary chief Sheila Nevins are voicing support for the film, produced by Sipur, Bitachon 365 in collaboration with MGM Television, Hscc and Susan Zirinsky’s See It Now Studios with BBC Storyville. “We Will Dance Again” has aired on the BBC Storyville plaform in the U.K. and on Israel’s Hot Channel 8. The 90-minute documentary, written and directed by Yariv Mozer and produced by Hscc’s Michal Weits, is available in the U.S. on Paramount+.

Platt, Braun and others are hosting an invitation-only screening for the documentary on Sunday on the Paramount Pictures lot. A survivor of the terrorist attack by Hamas...

The producers of a documentary about the victims of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas at the Nova Music Festival are accusing the International Documentary Association of anti-Israel bias after they pulled paid awards season ads ahead of voting for the Oscars’ Best Documentary shortlist.

The organization denied the charge on Wednesday in a letter from their lawyer sent to TheWrap, calling the accusation “fictional.”

Ads for “We Will Dance Again,” a documentary streaming on Paramount+ from director Yariv Mozer, began to run Nov. 18 and were suddenly pulled ahead of the first round of Academy Award voting to determine the shortlist for the Best Documentary Feature category.

Producer Michael Schmidt accused Zaferhan Yumru, IDA’s director of marketing and communications, of pulling the ads over their opposition to Israel.

“Zaferhan Yumru’s sudden and arbitrary cancellation of all our ad contracts with the IDA is simply the result of their own personal animosity,...

Gathering with friends to enjoy live music, the last thing on anyone’s mind was danger. Yet in an instant, terror struck the Nova Festival and shattered lives. We Will Dance Again honors those impacted with care, courage, and compassion. Through harrowing yet intimate tales of resilience, it ensures the victims are never forgotten.

Directed by Yariv Mozer, the film collects phone videos and interviews with survivors of the deadly October 2023 attack. Over three thousand people celebrated at the Nova/Universo Parelello festival near Israel’s Gaza border. But at dawn, Hamas militants breached the fence and hurled the camp into chaos. While most initially mistook rockets for fireworks, panic soon set in with the music’s halt and shouts of “code red.”

Attendants found themselves rushing aimlessly against traffic and confusion. Makeshift shelters like portable refrigerators and dumpsters briefly offered cover from grenades. But with Israeli forces delayed over six hours,...

We Will Dance Again, a 90-minute documentary about the victims and survivors of the massacre at the Nova Music Festival, one of the sites in Israel that was attacked by Hamas a year ago, got a special preview screening in London on Tuesday evening courtesy of the BBC, whose Storyville doc strand is debuting the program in the U.K. on Wednesday night.

Using the testimony of survivors, CCTV and mobile phone footage, the film tells the personal stories of some of the people who lived and many who died. It shows partygoers hiding under the stage, in a fridge, toilets and trash containers and plays recordings of some of the emergency calls made to the Israeli army, police and ambulance service. The party, which began as a celebration for around 3,500 Israelis and other nationals, ended with 364 people being killed and 44 being taken hostage.

After Tuesday’s screening at the...

Susan Zirinsky, the former president of CBS News and longtime executive producer of its news magazine 48 Hours, is behind Paramount+’s We Will Dance Again. The documentary, which streamed on Tuesday, takes a minute-by-minute, you-are-there approach to Hamas militants’ murder and abduction of Nova music festival attendees in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The attack, part of a wider armed incursion that killed nearly 1,200 people, led to the ongoing Gaza war.

Director Yariv Mozer explained to The Hollywood Reporter that the film’s narrative, told through interviews with surviving festivalgoers, relies on extensive use of graphically violent video material taken in real time — including footage retrieved from the assailants — “to be able to show how enormous the scale of this attack was and the brutality of these atrocities against people who couldn’t defend themselves.”

Zirinsky, who has also produced documentaries about 9/11 and the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, agreed with Mozer’s rationale.

The Paramount+ documentary “We Will Dance Again” provides viewers with an uncensored, 360-view of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel that left 405 dead, 45 taken hostage and many more injured. The graphic depiction of the day gives a full glimpse into the terror inflicted on innocent Israeli civilians, international visitors (including several Americans), Nova Music Festival-goers and more.

Produced by See It Now Studios, the film debuted on the streamer Tuesday, almost a year after the atrocities that sparked the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Using Hamas’ GoPro film recordings, social media videos and victims’ recovered cell phone footage, the documentarian team behind “We Will Dance Again” attempted to give a total picture of what really happened.

Speaking at a Los Angeles screening at the Sherry Lansing Theatre on Thursday, the film’s director Yariv Mozer (“Golda’s War Diaries”) defended the graphic nature of the documentary as being necessary and impactful.

We Will Dance Again, a Paramount+ documentary about the Hamas militants’ mass killing and hostage-taking of music festival attendees in southern Israel — part of a larger attack that triggered the ongoing Gaza war — debuted Tuesday, just ahead of the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre. Director Yariv Mozer’s immersive approach elides commentary. Instead, he sticks to harrowing testimony from survivors, buttressed by graphically violent video taken in real time, including footage retrieved from the assailants. “It’s events happening in front of your eyes,” explains the film’s producer Susan Zirinsky, who’s the former head of CBS News. “There is no exaggeration, no embellishment.”

Mozer spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about why he doesn’t see the project as political, when real violence is too much for viewers, and how international buyers are taking different approaches to the film.

What’s the genesis of the project?

On the 7th of October,...

For many people, the horrors of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel reside in the imagination. Some of the raw footage of the mass murder and abductions that happened that day, miles from the Gaza border after Hamas militants poured in on motorcycles and hanging from vehicles while waving Ak-47s and firing at anyone in their path, was seen in part, scattered in snatches across news reports and social media. What was shown to the public last year was brief for obvious reasons. The footage was captured via cell phones of festivalgoers of the Nova Music Festival, or through CCTV footage outside roadside fallout shelters or dashcam video before their abrupt endings, at which point over 400 music lovers were murdered or kidnapped.

With We Will Dance Again, out on Paramount+ on Sept. 24, director Yariv Mozer created a narrative of the events as seen by the victims on Oct. 7, as the...

CBS Mornings on Monday, September 23, 2024, welcomes Bill Gates, author Law Roach and film-maker Yariv Mozer Bill Gates will discuss his new TV series, What’s Next: The Future with Bill Gates, which premiered on Netflix just days ago. The series offers a unique insight into Gates’ perspective on various global topics, including artificial intelligence […]

CBS Mornings Monday September 23: Bill Gates, Law Roach, Yariv Mozer...

Paramount+ will premiere We Will Dance Again on Sept. 24. The film documents the Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack at the Nova Music Festival last year.

The premiere date is tied near to the first anniversary of the attack that killed about 1,200 Israelis and took roughly 250 hostages. To retaliate against Hamas after the attacks, Israel launched an offensive military action in Gaza with considerable loss of life in the region.

The project from See It Now Studios features new interviews with more than a dozen survivors who were able to chronicle their harrowing experience to stay alive with exclusive cell phone footage. The doc also includes footage captured by other victims and Hamas ahead of the wider Israel-Gaza conflict.

“The human cost of the Hamas attack in Israel and the war that followed in Gaza has been catastrophic for both Israelis and Palestinians,” Susan Zirinsky, president of See It Now Studios, said in a statement.

Paramount+ will premiere its Oct. 7 documentary “We Will Dance Again” on Sept. 24. The film will feature interviews with survivors of the Hamas attack that took place at the Nova Music Festival.

“This film is a document of history, of one of the attacks that began on October 7th at 6:29 in the morning,” See It Now Studios president Susan Zirinsky said in a Thursday press release. “The human cost of the Hamas attack in Israel and the war that followed in Gaza has been catastrophic for both Israelis and Palestinians … it is a painful story of unfathomable tragedy, but also of bravery, sacrifice and heroism.”

Directed by Yariv Mozer, “We Will Dance Again” will include the experiences and anecdotes of those who attended the Nova Music Festival in 2023, with footage straight from survivors’ cell phones.

The official synopsis reads: “The Nova Music Festival was supposed to be a celebration of life,...

Two very different indies circling a cantor and slasher debut in moderate to wide release along with a handful of limited openings from Close Your Eyes to Paradise Is Burning on this late summer weekend with the fall festival season about to kick off.

Sony Pictures Classics launches Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane-starring Between The Temples on 576 screens. Directed by Nathan Silver, written by Silver and C. Mason Wells with Schwartzman as a cantor losing his voice, and maybe his faith. His world turns upside down when his grade school music teacher (Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. SPC acquired the thoughtful comedy out of Sundance. Also stars Robert Smigel (Leo), Madeline Weinstein (Beach Rats), and Matthew Shear (Mistress America). It played Sundance and Berlin to strong reviews (sits at 87% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes) and made its New York debut at Tribeca.

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Paramount+ announced today that the award-winning film We Will Dance Again, a shocking documentary about the October 7th Hamas terror attack on the international Nova Music Festival, will have a two-day theatrical run nationwide in partnership with Iconic Events Releasing.

The film will first open in Los Angeles at Laemmle Encino for a week-long Oscar-qualifying run beginning on August 23, ahead of the advanced event screenings on Friday, August 29, and Sunday, September 1, in select theaters across the country. The See It Now Studios Original Documentary will launch on Paramount+ exclusively in the U.S. this fall.

We Will Dance Again won two awards at Doc Edge in June, including Best International Editing and the In Truth We Trust category award.

The Nova Music Festival was supposed to be a celebration of life, love, and music for thousands of young people but became one of the first targets when Hamas launched the...

Ahead of its exclusive streaming premiere on Paramount+ planned for this fall, the documentary We Will Dance Again examining Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel has been slated for a two-day theatrical run nationwide in partnership with Iconic Events Releasing.

The film will first open at Laemmle Encino in Los Angeles for a week-long Oscar qualifying run beginning on August 23, ahead of advanced event screenings on Friday, August 29, and Sunday, September 1, in select theaters across the country. Watch a trailer above.

As recounted in the forthcoming documentary from director Yariv Mozer (The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes), the Nova Music Festival was supposed to be a celebration of life, love and music for thousands of young people but became one of the first targets when Hamas launched the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history on October 7th of last year. Told through the eyes of more than a dozen survivors,...

Australia’s Nine Network has become the latest buyer of powerful Israeli doc We Will Dance Again about the Nova Music Festival.

The channel has scheduled the award-winning feature documentary to air October 7, marking the one-year anniversary of the tragedy.

Commissioned soon after October 7 by Bad Boys studio Sipur, We Will Dance Again tells the stories of more than a dozen survivors in their own words. The documentary pieces together their exclusive video footage with that of the perpetrators themselves and CCTV cameras, telling the story of innocent young people forced to fight for their survival in the breathtaking intensity of real time.

We Will Dance Again has already sold to Paramount+ in the U.S., co-producers BBC Storyville in the UK, Hot Channel 8 in Israel and Norway’s Vgtv. Fulwell 73 label Bitachon 365 and MGM Television also boarded the doc in March.

Distributor Osmosis Global struck the deal with Nine.

UK’s Odeon Cinemas Expands Family Offer

In a bid to bolster its draw for families, the UK’s Odeon Cinemas is expanding the scope of its “adults pay kids prices” deal. The scheme will see admits for one adult and one child from as little as £10 for an Odeon Cinema and £15 for an Odeon Luxe throughout 2024. The AMC-owned chain says it’s making the investment into its family offerings as data has shown that affordability and convenience are the biggest concerns for families when considering activities, particularly over the summer holidays. With the opening weekend of Inside Out 2 marking Odeon’s busiest since National Cinema Day last September, turnstiles have been on fire. The UK gross for IO2 through Sunday stands at $40.2M while such titles with family appeal on deck include Despicable Me 4 on July 12 and Harold and the Purple Crayon on August 2. Later in the year,...

Paramount+ has landed We Will Dance Again, a documentary about Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack at the Nova Music Festival.

The project from See It Now Studios features new interviews with more than a dozen survivors, who recorded their experience throughout the attack, and exclusive footage. The doc also includes eyewitness accounts from those survivors, as well as footage captured by other victims and Hamas.

“The human cost of what happened on October 7th in Israel, and the war in Gaza, has been catastrophic. We can’t tell everyone’s story. This film is about innocent young people, forced to fight for their survival,” Susan Zirinsky, president of See It Now Studios, said in a statement. “It is a painful story of unfathomable tragedy, and also of bravery, sacrifice and heroism.”

Yariv Mozer directed We Will Dance Again, which was originally announced the week after the attacks took place. His other...

A documentary on Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack at the Nova Music festival in Israel, titled We Will Dance Again, will be released on Paramount+ this fall. The film will be “told through the eyes of more than a dozen survivors, many of whom videotaped their experiences as the massacre unfolded,” including “footage captured by both the victims and Hamas,” a press release states.

“The human cost of what happened on October 7th in Israel and the war in Gaza has been catastrophic. We can’t tell everyone’s story. This film...

Casting

Cold War thriller “Whispers of Freedom” has set its principal cast, Variety has learned. “Masters of the Air” alum Cameron Ashplant will play the film’s lead, young East German Chris Gueffroy, while Darragh Cowley (who also appeared in “Masters of the Air”) co-stars as his close friend Christian Gaudian.

Set in 1980s East Germany, the film is written and directed by Brandon Ashplant. It follows Chris and Christian as they try to escape the isolated Eastern bloc state. Wendy Makkena (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”) joins as Chris’s mother Karin and Paul Freeman (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”) as East German leader Erich Honecker. Wolf Kahler (“The Great Escaper”) joins in a supporting role as Bruno Kabát.

“Whispers of Freedom” goes into production next month. It is produced by Jonathan Tammuz and Golden Goat Films.

Documentary

BBC Storyville has acquired documentary “We Will Dance Again” (working...

BBC Storyville, Fulwell 73 label Bitachon 365 and MGM Television have boarded Israeli network Hot 8’s upcoming feature doc on the tragedy that befell the Supernova Music Festival on October 7.

Deadline revealed that Bad Boys studio Sipur was producing the doc several months ago and it has since been given the working title We Will Dance Again.

Helmed by The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes‘s Yariv Mozer, the doc offers new interviews and previously unseen exclusive footage of the tragic Supernova Music Festival massacre, which was the catalyst for the ongoing and horrific Israel-Gaza War. On that day, what began as a celebration of life, love and music for thousands of young people turned into the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history by Hamas, and more than 200 people were kidnapped – many of whom have still not been returned.

Storyville has acquired for the UK and Fulwell label Bitachon,...

The Israeli music festival in which hundreds of young people were killed by Hamas, providing the spark to the ongoing conflict, is to be spotlighted in a documentary. Bad Boys studio Sipur has acquired exclusive material from participants and key people at the festival as it seeks to honour the scores of young victims, and the as-yet-untitled feature will air on Israeli broadcaster Hot Channel 8 and Hscc.

The October 7 massacre at the Supernova Music Festival in Re’im kibbutz by Hamas has been called ‘Israel’s 9/11’, kicking off one of the darkest weeks of a generation for the international community and killing an estimated 260 civillians, reports Deadline.

The documentary will present an in-depth look at the festival before, during and after the horrific event.

It will include interviews with investigators, soldiers and journalists shocked by the carnage they have witnessed, as well as unseen footage gathered from the festival-goers.

The Israeli music festival in which hundreds of young people were killed by Hamas, providing the spark to the ongoing conflict, is to be spotlighted in a documentary. Bad Boys studio Sipur has acquired exclusive material from participants and key people at the festival as it seeks to honour the scores of young victims, and the as-yet-untitled feature will air on Israeli broadcaster Hot Channel 8 and Hscc.

The October 7 massacre at the Supernova Music Festival in Re’im kibbutz by Hamas has been called ‘Israel’s 9/11’, kicking off one of the darkest weeks of a generation for the international community and killing an estimated 260 civillians, reports Deadline.

The documentary will present an in-depth look at the festival before, during and after the horrific event.

It will include interviews with investigators, soldiers and journalists shocked by the carnage they have witnessed, as well as unseen footage gathered from the festival-goers.

Israel-based production company Sipur is teaming up with Israeli broadcaster Hot Channel 8 and producer Hscc on a feature documentary about the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas on the Supernova Music Festival in Kibbutz Re’im. The assault was part of Hamas’ incursion over the border into Israel that resulted in the terrorist group killing more than 1,300 people and triggering the current Israeli-Gaza war.

Yariv Mozer, director of The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes and Ben Gurion: Epilogue, will direct the film, using exclusive material from participants and key people at the festival. The filmmakers said they aim to present an in-depth look at the festival before, during and after the horrific event and will include interviews with investigators, soldiers and journalists shocked by the carnage they have witnessed, as well as unseen footage gathered from the festivalgoers.

“I have seen things in my life. I have lived through wars...

Exclusive: The Israeli music festival in which hundreds of young people were killed by Hamas, providing the spark for this week’s bloody conflict, is to be spotlighted in a documentary.

Bad Boys studio Sipur has acquired exclusive material from participants and key people at the festival as it seeks to honor the scores of young victims, and the as-yet-untitled feature will air on Israeli broadcaster Hot Channel 8 and Hscc.

The October 7 massacre at the Supernova Music Festival in Re’im kibbutz by Hamas has been called ‘Israel’s 9/11,’ kicking off one of the darkest weeks of a generation for the international community and killing an estimated 260 civillians.

Sipur’s doc will present an in-depth look at the festival before, during and after the horrific event. It will include interviews with investigators, soldiers and journalists shocked by the carnage they have witnessed, as well as unseen footage gathered from the festival-goers.

BritBox has dropped the trailer for its miniseries “The Confessions of Frannie Langton,” which will premiere all four episodes March 8 in North America, Australia, South Africa, and the Nordic territories.

Starring Karla-Simone Spence in the lead role, “The Confessions of Frannie Langton” depicts a woman who is forcibly employed as a maid in a wealthy London household. When the estate’s owners are suddenly murdered, Frannie is perceived as the culprit and brought to prison, where she attempts to uncover the truth.

“This is my story, and it’s a story of love,” Spence says in a voiceover omnipresent throughout the trailer. “Though everyone expected it to be a story of murder and truth. No one ever expects any kind of story from a woman like me.”

In a particularly heated moment from the one-minute teaser, Spence exchanges a passionate kiss with co-star Sophie Cookson, hinting at the threads of...

Amazon’s Prime Video has acquired the Holocaust-centered docuseries “The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes.” It is now exclusively available to stream in the U.S.

The three-part docuseries presented by MGM Television and Sipur in association with Kan11, Toluca Pictures, and Alice communications, brings to light the audio recordings of Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann, which detail his role as one of the leading perpetrators of the Holocaust’s “Final Solution.”

It features 28 hours of taped interviews with Eichmann, long believed to be lost, recorded in 1957 while he was in hiding in Argentina, as well as interviews from Holocaust survivors, key witnesses at the Eichmann trial, historians and experts on the Holocaust.

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In the interviews, conducted by Nazi journalist William Sassen, Eichmann confesses to his own role in the genocide perpetrated against the...

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...

Festivals

The Cannes Film Market has added to its previously announced Ukraine in Focus program, which will provide Ukrainian filmmakers and producers with networking, pitching and co-financing opportunities over two days during the Cannes Film Festival, on May 21 and 22. A panel discussion titled “Ukrainian Cinema: From Surviving to Thriving Again: How the Global Film Community Can Come Together to Support the Country’s War-Torn Industry” will take place on May 21.

In addition the market has confirmed the full endorsement and patronage of Ukrainian Films Now, an initiative promoted by Eave, First Cut Lab, and When East Meets West, which aims at gathering a pool of European regional and national film funds to support Ukrainian films at a late post-production stage to complete the final financial gap.

“We hope that these initiatives will allow Ukraine’s cinema and audiovisual industry to not only survive in the challenging context, but to thrive...

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...

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...

Exclusive: MGM and Israeli production company Tadmor Entertainment are behind making a documentary series about Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust.

The two companies are producing Eichmann – The Devil Speaks for Israeli public broadcaster Kan. It marks the first project to emerge from the first-look deal between MGM and Tadmor that was signed earlier this year.

As part of Hitler’s Final Solution, Eichmann was responsible for killing over six million Jews. After the war he went into hiding, but was recorded on tapes by Nazi journalist Willem Sassen, bragging about his central role in the genocide. Eichmann was eventually caught in Argentina by Israeli intelligence and put on trial in Jerusalem, but the original Sassen tapes were never recovered. One of the most important interviews ever given was never heard… until now.

The series, which is currently in production, will premiere in December 2021. It was created by director Yariv Mozer. Kobi Sitt is producing for Alice Communications, while Tadmor Entertainment’s Gideon Tadmor, Emilio Schenker and Michael Schmidt are serving as executive producers.

MGM is handing worldwide rights outside of Israel and will soon introduce the series to global buyers. The deal was negotiated by MGM’s President of Television Operations Brian Edwards and Klvb Law’s Jerry Longarzo on behalf of Tadmor Entertainment.

Yariv Mozer said, “We feel obligated to return to the legal drama that took place in 1961 and retell the story of the Holocaust to younger generations so that it will never be forgotten. Above all, it is essential to reiterate the lessons we learned from the Holocaust at a time when more and more people seem to have forgotten them.”

MGM/UA TV President Steve Stark added, “Eichmann – The Devil Speaks features never-before-seen interview footage of one of history’s most notorious war criminals and brings a new lens to the emotionally explosive trial that revealed him to the world. We are honored to kick off our creative partnership with Tadmor Entertainment on this gripping and essential documentary series.”...

Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor will be honored with the 2017 Iff Achievement in Television Award at the 31st Israel Film Festival’s opening night gala, which will be held Nov. 5 at the Steve Tisch Cinema Center at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.

The fest also will present its 2017 Iff Cinematic Achievement Award to Israeli film star Lior Ashkenazi, winner of this year’s Israeli Academy Ophir Award as best actor for his work in Foxtrot.

The fest’s opening night film is Yariv Mozer’s documentary Ben-Gurion, Epilogue, winner of this year’s Ophir Award for best documentary, and will screen following the...

French sales outfit Wide Management has added a slew of titles in recent months.

Tiff contemporary world cinema premiere Ningen, about a Japanese CEO under pressure to save his company, is the second feature from Noor directors Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti.

Portuguese drama Bobo, by Ines Oliveira, plays in the Tiff discovery programme. The feature follows two women who unite over their mutual desire to protect a child.

Vinko Bresan’s Karlovy Vary competition comedy The Priest’s Children has sold to a number of European territories while Jean-Louis Daniel’s Paris-set Shanghai Belle, also in-demand, tells the story of young models discovering a life of drugs, sex and prostitution.

Also on the slate are Snails in the Rain by Yariv Mozer, Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Rene Feret’s The Film to Come, and Us comedy Only in New York, in which a stand-up has a novel take on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Wide has also...

The 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival has just been voted Best Film Festival Ever!……..maybe……if it hasn’t it should because this year’s fest has provided a breathtaking variety of docs, dramas, foreign flix, comedies, shorts, and….you name it!

Sliff.s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University.s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University.s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il

The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.

http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012

Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 16th

Alter Egos

Alter Egos plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre – Read The Wamg Review By Dana Jung Here

In the alternative world of Ârdizes an important mission with he discovers his...