Outstanding business insiders are gathering assist for Oscar consideration for the documentary “We Will Dance Once more,” which chronicles the horror that unfolded at Israel’s Nova Worldwide Music Pageant on Oct. 7, 2023.
Producer Marc Platt, Sean Penn, music mogul Scooter Braun and former HBO and MTV documentary chief Sheila Nevins are voicing assist for the movie, produced by Sipur, Bitachon 365 in collaboration with MGM Tv, HSCC and Susan Zirinsky’s See It Now Studios with BBC Storyville. “We Will Dance Once more” has aired on the BBC Storyville plaform within the U.Ok. and on Israel’s Scorching Channel 8. The 90-minute documentary, written and directed by Yariv Mozer and produced by HSCC’s Michal Weits, is offered within the U.S. on Paramount+.
Platt, Braun and others are internet hosting an invitation-only screening for the documentary on Sunday on the Paramount Footage lot. Survivors of the terrorist assault by Hamas that ignited the battle in Gaza will participate in a panel session after the screening. Greater than 360 folks had been killed and lots of extra wounded when terrorists opened fireplace on the out of doors competition held in Re’im in southern Israel.
Penn, who produced the 2023 documentary “Superpower” concerning the battle in Ukraine, is talking out for “We Will Dance Once more.”
“We bandy concerning the time period ‘must-see movie,’ and but not often do movies stay as much as that in any literal sense. As heartbreaking as it’s revelatory, ‘We Will Dance Once more’ is really a must-see movie in our time,” Penn mentioned.
Nevins emphasised {that a} documentary resembling “We Will Dance Once more” is the best car to seize world-shaking occasions and in addition assist with processing the trauma.
“The digital camera catches all of it. This sensible documentary rises above all of the vulgarity of Hamas’ inhumanity to shout ‘We’ll dance once more,’” Nevins mentioned.
The movie items collectively the savage assault with video footage from a spread of sources, together with some extremely disturbing materials launched on-line by Hamas terrorists. The following battle in Gaza has created a world humanitarian disaster that has left greater than 44,000 Palestinians lifeless. Almost 1,200 Israelis died within the Oct. 7 assault and 63 folks stay captive from the 251 hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Zirinsky, the longtime CBS Information producer and former CBS Information president, pressured that the movie’s focus is on the younger adults whose lives had been shattered that day.
“This movie is apolitical – and the authenticity of the 12 survivors – immersing you in occasions as they unfolded proper earlier than your eyes – and that’s the reason so a lot of Hollywood’s best storytellers have voiced their appreciations for having unraveled this tragedy as we honor the reminiscences of the numerous lives misplaced,” Zirinsky mentioned.
Further govt producers on “We Will Dance Once more” are Emilio Schenker, Michael Peter Schmidt, Ariel Weisbrod, Orly Arbell and Gideon Tadmor for Sipur; Sheldon Lazarus, Ben Winston, Leo Pearlman, Ben Turner and Gabe Turner for Bitachon 365; Dari Shay, Rinat Klein, Haim Slutsky and Dorit Hessel for HSCC; Lucie Kon for BBC Storyville; Arturo Interian and Terence Improper for See It Now Studios.
