EXCLUSIVE: The filmmakers behind Israel‘s 2024 Worldwide Function Oscar submission are actually engaged on a film about an all-female Israeli Defence Pressure (IDF) tank unit which defended in opposition to the Hamas terror assaults on October 7.
Ayelet Menahemi, whose characteristic Seven Blessings received this 12 months’s Ophir Prize in Israel, is slated to direct the movie and shall be teaming up once more with writer-actress Eleanor Sela who’s writing the script and likewise wrote and starred Seven Blessings.
The movie is impressed by the true occasions concerning the first-of-its-kind all-female tank unit who engaged in fierce battles in opposition to Hamas attackers on the day of the October 7 massacres. The battle was the primary occasion in historical past of an all-female armored unit collaborating in fight.
Along with the battle, the filmmakers inform us the movie will even discover the founding of the unit and the struggles the younger girls combatants confronted with a view to show themselves and be taken critically amid skepticism and at instances discrimination from male counterparts. Combined gender combating models in Israel have beforehand been the topic of controversy amongst some politicians and army.
Jewish-Israeli feminine filmmakers Ayelet Menahemi and Eleanor Sela said: “Amidst the inconceivable tales of bravery since October 7, this is without doubt one of the distinctive and heroic ones. It reveals what occurs when girls take issues into their very own arms after males solid doubt on their proper and skill to battle. These younger girls made historical past, twice.”
The movie shall be produced by Ehud Bleiberg’s LA-based Bleiberg Leisure, recognized for motion pictures together with Within the Land of Saints and Sinners, The Iceman and The Band’s Go to, together with Ronen Ben Tal (Seven Blessings).
The characteristic shall be an Israeli-international co-production, with filming aiming to start in fall 2024.
Because the Hamas assaults of October 7, claims have emerged that some senior IDF commanders refused to heed the warnings of younger feminine surveillance troopers tasked with watching the Gaza border within the weeks earlier than the assaults, with sexism cited as an element of their reviews being ignored.
A number of documentaries with reference to the October 7 assaults have emerged in current months however that is the primary narrative characteristic to be introduced.
The October 7 terror assault by Hamas left greater than 1,200 Israelis lifeless (reviews have additionally emerged of a number of sexual assaults in opposition to girls). The Israeli authorities’s subsequent and ongoing army motion in Gaza has resulted in additional than 17,000 Palestinian deaths, in accordance with Gaza Well being Ministry.
Feminine Israel troopers are seen driving an armoured personnel service (APC) in southern Israeli.
