Several documentaries in production are leaving Sunny Side of the Doc – the world’s biggest nonfiction film marketplace – with renewed momentum and exposure.
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EXCLUSIVE: A new documentary will tell the harrowing story of 10 youngsters who fled the Nova Music Festival on October 7. They were subsequently attacked as they took cover in a bunker and had to hide under the bodies of those who had been killed to survive.
The Hamas attack on the Nova Festival marked the beginning of the October 7 assault on Israel and sparked the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, which has so far claimed an estimated 37,000 lives.
The group in the film managed to exit the festival quickly and hoped they had found safety by sheltering in one of the many bunkers on the edge of Gaza. In the subsequent eight hours, however, they were subject to machine gun and grenade attacks. Icon Docs has secured footage from the festivalgoers and interviews with them as they process what happened.
Icon Docs, which is the documentary unit of German studio Bavaria Fiction, hopes to have the film ready for broadcast in time for the first anniversary of October 7.
Emanuel Rotstein, the label’s Head of Documentaries and Executive Producer, told Deadline he was approached by a colleague whose friend had a son who was in the shelter.
“He survived the terror attack in a bomb shelter. Not only him, but a group of friends. My colleague said: ‘Whatever happens we are going to record it or for the future as an historical document.’”
The filmmakers have the interview footage as well as video and photos shot during the festival and from inside the bunker in which the youngsters sought shelter. The doc also captures the story of a father trying to reach his daughter in the shelter when he hears about what is happening.
The interview footage with the youngsters was captured soon after they survived the attack on the bunker. “They sat
Several documentaries in production are leaving Sunny Side of the Doc – the world’s biggest nonfiction film marketplace – with renewed momentum and exposure.
Naman Ramachandran The international documentary market Sunny Side of the Doc concluded its 35th edition in La Rochelle, France on June 27, drawing 2,100 participants from 68 countries. The four-day event, themed “Mapping the Future,” showcased 90 exhibitors and hosted 250 international decision-makers.
Sunny Side of the Doc, the world’s biggest documentary-focused marketplace in the world, wrapped its 35th edition Thursday, after gathering 2,100 participants over four days in La Rochelle, France.
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