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Suicide Bombers
Thursday, July 1, 2004
In a series of unique, powerful, and revealing interviews from inside Israeli prisons, this film examines the minds of Palestinian suicide bombers. Three failed suicide bombers, one recruiter, and one bomb builder captured by Israeli security forces speak openly of their training, motivation, operational methodology, and profound belief in the idea of entering paradise by becoming a shahid, a martyr killed in the cause of Islam. They talk of their hatred of Jews and Israel, their determination to die and personal motivations that have influenced them -- including a failed love, a sense of personal revenge, the frustration of living under Israeli occupation, and envy for the prosperous Israeli style of life.
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Writer/director Tom Roberts has made more than one hundred films on subjects as diverse as Stalin's purges (DEATH TRAIN), the Arab/Israeli conflict (THE HOLYLANDS), runaway children in the UK (STAYING LOST), and American war crimes in Korea (KILL 'EM ALL). After producing films for the BBC for eight years on the Falklands War, the Contra rebels of Nicaragua, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and other subjects, Roberts founded his own independent production company, October Films, in 1989. The company has won more than 60 international awards including a CINE Golden Eagle and an Emmy.
Producer Israel Goldvicht has created award-winning productions for major networks including NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, and HBO in the US; the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 in the UK; and other leading stations around the world. THE NORWAY CHANNEL, an inside account of the secret negotiations that led to the Oslo agreement, won the Royal Television Society Award for journalism on international current affairs; THE UGLY WAR, two films examining the operational methods, tactics, and moral justification of both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian war, won two London Foreign Press Association Awards; and CHAGALL'S JOURNEY, a portrait of Marc Chagall's career as a Jewish artist, received an Emmy Award.
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