Duki Dror Doc On Hamas-Backed Re’im Competition Assault Set For ZDF & Arte – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: A quick turnaround doc from filmmaker Duki Dror profiling the survivors of the shock Hamas-led assault on a music pageant in Israel is ready to launch in Germany and France.

Hamas Competition Assault – The Survivors of the Desert Rave will launch on Arte as an ‘Arte Re:’ particular 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 sometimes works with its French counterpart on doc applications.

An 50-minute worldwide model is being readied underneath the title Supernova: The Music Competition Bloodbath by Leonine-owned producer Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion and Dror’s Zygote Movies.

At the least 365 folks had been killed when Hamas stormed the Supernova Sukkot Gathering close to kibbutz Re’im as a part of a coordinated assault on Israel on October 7. Round 40 extra had been kidnapped and brought to Gaza as hostages. Horrifying movies and pictures from the pageant, which was attended by greater than 3,500 folks from a number of international locations, have develop into synonymous with the continued Israel-Gaza battle, which has as we speak seen a four-day ceasefire come into being.

The doc options interviews with the survivors of the bloodbath and first responders, and real-time footage collated from a number of sources. As a part of a particular program on Arte, interviews shall be aired earlier than and after the movie, with survivors of the assault, director Duki Dror and producer Reinhardt Beetz.

A 50-minute model of the movie titled “Supernova: The Music Competition Bloodbath” is presently being finalized and shall be distributed worldwide inside the subsequent few weeks. As well as, Gebrueder Beetz can be engaged on One Day in October, a 90-minute high-end worldwide documentary masking the bloodbath and its aftermath, which is because of be accomplished in October 2024.

Hamas Competition Assault – The Survivors of the Desert Rave is produced by Beetz and Dror, who was behind Netflix and WDR/Arte’s Contained in the Mossad. The manufacturing group consists of Yossi Bloch (Netflix’s The Satan Subsequent Door), Noam Pinchas (VPRO’s Murky Skies), and government producer Danna Stern (Fauda, The Satan Subsequent Door, The Oslo Diaries).

“Our group on the bottom documented the occasion in actual time. We knew we needed to act quick and seize these unbelievably harrowing tales which is able to resonate for years to come back,” stated Beetz, CEO of Gebrueder Beetz. “The particular program, which shall be broadcast on November 28, is only the start and we’re in growth on longer productions that may inform the story of the horrible assaults by Hamas with journalistic depth.”

“We knew we needed to begin filming the survivors, doc their experiences, and gather all kinds of supplies as rapidly as doable,” added Israeli producer and director Dror. “The story of the bloodbath on the pageant is exclusive not solely because of the staggering variety of victims and the brutal terrors they endured, however the truth that these occasions had been captured in real-time by a number of sources on an enormous scale, together with the Hamas’ personal cameramen and GoPros hooked up to the perpetrators, by the victims on their cell phones, CCTV footage, sprint cams and the primary responders on web site.”

Gebrueder Beetz is behind docs reminiscent of Sundance title Gaza and the current Within the Shadow of Beirut, which has entered the Oscar race and was co-produced with Hillary Clinton’s firm Hidden Gentle Productions. Each titles had been for ZDF/Arte.

The corporate says its movies are “united by a deeply human method, far faraway from politics – and but, they’re extremely political.” We just lately revealed it has employed long-serving ZDF docs chief Martin Pieper in an Worldwide manufacturing push. Germany-based manufacturing group Leonine acquired the enterprise final yr, taking 50% of Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion & Co. KG (Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne) and 100% of Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Lüneburg.