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“Wars today,” we hear early in “October 8,” are fought “not only in battlefields but also on different media outlets. It’s very challenging: the war of the narrative, and sometimes even the war over truth.”

It has become increasingly arduous to determine objective truth in the modern era, particularly on subjects as fraught and ideologically riven as the Middle East. But documentarian Wendy Sachs (“Surge”) narrows her focus, and sets her sights closer to home. She aims, in this passionate and timely documentary, to explore how a culture war has unfolded across U.S. universities since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

Under ordinary circumstances, it might feel uncontroversial to make a film about the recent rise of antisemitism on college campuses. There was, we learn, a 140% increase in antisemitic incidents in 2023, the highest on record. Surely this is a trajectory worthy of concern and exploration. But as the movie makes clear,...

Updated with additional film credits. Exclusive: Briarcliff Entertainment has set a March theatrical release date for the Oscar-qualified documentary October 8, a searing examination of antisemitism that erupted after the Hamas terror attack on Israel of October 7, 2023.

Wendy Sachs directed the film (originally titled October H8TE), with Emmy-winning actress and activist Debra Messing serving as executive producer. Messing appears on camera in the documentary, along with actor-comedian Michael Rapaport, author Noa Tishby, Mosab Hassan Yousef (son of Hamas’s founder Mosab Hassan Yousef), former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg, Congressman Ritchie Torres, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, U.S. Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, college students Tessa Veksler, Noa Fay and Talia Khan, and others.

Briarcliff plans a March 14 limited nationwide theatrical debut for the film, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Washington DC and other cities.

“October 8 offers a searing look at the eruption of antisemitism on college campuses,...

The son of one of Hamas’ cofounders, Mosab Hassan Yousef, joined “Fox & Friends” on Thursday and suggested that Israel should “explore using gas” to rid underground tunnels in Gaza of Hamas militants.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade spoke to Yousef, who is seeking asylum in the U.S., after renouncing the terror organization, on Thursday. Kilmeade had no response or follow-up question after Yousef’s mention of gas, which would conceivably break international laws that make the use of chemical weapons a war crime.

Kilmeade, in a segment you can watch at the top of this post, first asked Yousef how Israel should proceed with a ground operation, which is expected in the near future.

Yousef first said that “we need to evacuate civilians,” from Gaza, “as much as we can.”

“This is an ugly war and Israel did not start it. Hamas did,” Yousef continued.

“We need to encourage civilians to go into Egypt,...

★☆☆☆☆ The Green Prince (2014) is the fantastical story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hassan Yousef one of the founders of Hamas; who was an informant for the Israeli internal secret service Shin Bet for more than 10 years until his escape to America and a conversion to Christianity. Here lies an intriguing story that calls to mind John Le Carre at his murky best, yet what we are given is the self justification and propaganda of a trio of ideologues: Mosab Hassan Yousef, his handler Gonen Ben-Itzhak (a man who was fired from the Shin Bet years ago for lying and financial mismanagement, a topic conveniently not alluded to in the film) and lastly the Israeli filmmaker Nadav Schirman.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been raging in its current form since the inception of the state of Israel after the Second World War. Some say there will never be peace between these two nations, while some hold out hope, or are at least cautiously optimistic that one day these opposing sides may stop the violence once and for all or at least tease out a peaceful coexistence.

Of course, like in any conflict, things are never black and white, there are always shades of grey, and just as there are people on both sides who will stop at nothing to destroy each other, there are always those people who make the moral decision to try and effect some small positive change to the status quo. In the documentary The Green Prince, director Nadav Schirman (In the Dark Room) puts the spotlight on two such people: Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son...

The documentary The Green Prince tells the story of a unique connection between two men. Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of one of the founders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Arrested at the age of 17, he was placed under the protection of Shin Bet, the Israeli equivalent of the CIA or MI6. There he meets his handler, Gonen Ben Yitzchak, who eventually turns him into a critical informant for the Israelis. It wouldn't do justice to the film to detail the back-and-forths that take place after this initial encounter, for much of the pleasure from the work delves from the surprise. Suffice it to say, there has rarely been a work, documentary or no, that so thoroughly details both the inner machinations...

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Its documentary form more functional than innovative, The Green Prince recounts a harrowing and consistently surprising real-life tale of sacrifice, trust, and loyalty. Nadav Schirman’s film recounts the amazing saga of Mosab Hassan Yousef, whose father was one of the founding members of Hamas, and whose teenage desire to fight Israel was undone after he was arrested and, over the course of the aughts, became a spy for Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet. Collaborating closely with his handler, Gonen Ben Yitzhak, who would eventually prove to be his greatest ally, Yousef covertly undermined Hamas terrorists’ efforts while maintaining his own safety — both from Palestinians who would kill him if they knew about his work and from Is...

The Green Prince Trailer. Nadav Schirman‘s The Green Prince (2014) movie trailer stars Mosab Hassan Yousef and Gonen Ben Yitzhak. The Green Prince‘s plot synopsis: “A Palestinian in Ramallah, Mosab Hassan Yousef grows up angry and ready to fight Israel. Arrested for smuggling guns at the age of 17, he’s [...]

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Check out the new trailer for timely Sundance world documentary audience award-winner "The Green Prince," based on Mosab Hassan Yousef's bestselling memoir "Son of Hamas," which will open September 12th in New York and in Los Angeles and then slowly expand to select cities nationwide. Set in the chaotic the Middle East, Nadav Schirman’s suspenseful "The Green Prince" details the true story of an unusual partnership between enemies: Yousef, the defiant teenage son of a Palestinian Hamas leader, and Gonen Ben Yitzhak, the Israeli Shin Bet agent who risked his career to protect his prize informant. How did Yousef turn? He started out anti-Israel but when he inevitably landed in prison, he witnessed Hamas’s brutal methods, especially suicide bombing, and started to see Hamas as more problem than solution. Recruited by Israel’s internal security agency as "Green Prince," Yousef spied on Hamas for over a decade,...

Title: The Green Prince Music Box Films Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: B+ Director: Nadav Schirman Screenplay: Nadav Schirman based on Mosab Hassan Yousef’s book, Son of Hamas Cast: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Gonen Ben Yitzhak Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 5/19/14 Opens: August 8, 2014 Of course traitors are despised by their countrymen, since, after all, what crime is worse than selling out your own people? On the other hand, you would think that such turncoats would be welcomed, even loved by the countries to which they give valuable information. You might be wrong there. People have contempt for sell-outs on both sides, considered [ Read More ]

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Electric City Entertainment partners Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell are developing a feature film based on the award-winning Sundance documentary “The Green Prince,” TheWrap has learned. Electric City is partnering with Richard Harding and Sam Feuer, who optioned the rights to Mosab Hassan Yousef's novel ”Son of Hamas,” which served as the underlying material for the documentary. John Battsek and Simon Chinn will executive produce along with Nadav Schirman, who directed the acclaimed Israeli documentary. Also read: Sundance Winning Documentary ‘The Green Prince’ to Be Adapted as Feature Film “The Green Prince” tells the extraordinary true story of an...

After winning an audience award at Sundance, the riveting Israeli documentary “The Green Prince” is being adapted as a feature film titled “The Son of Hamas” by Sixth Sense Productions, the company announced Tuesday. Written and directed by Nadav Schirman, “The Green Prince” takes a raw and honest look at the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, who spent a decade as an Israeli informer and helped take down the terrorist organization that he was once groomed to inherit. Also Read: ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘Fight Club’ Producer Arnon Milchan: I Was an Israeli...

‘Whiplash’: Sundance Film Festival Awards’ rare double winner (photo: Miles Teller in ‘Whiplash’) Directed by Damien Chazelle — and acquired for domestic distribution by Sony Pictures Classics — Whiplash won the 2014 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. The story of a young, ambitious 19-year-old drummer (played by 26-year-old Miles Teller) under the tutelage of a ruthless teacher (J.K. Simmons), Whiplash also features Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser, Austin Stowell, Nate Lang, Chris Mulkey, and Damon Gupton. Whiplash‘s double Sundance Film Festival win is quite rare. Previous such instances in Sundance’s three-decade history include Tony Bui’s Three Seasons in 1999, Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s Quinceañera in 2006, Lee Daniels’ Precious in 2009, and Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station last year. Of these, Precious is — somewhat surprisingly — the only Sundance double winner to have succeeded both at the domestic box office and during awards season,...

Park City -- The incredible story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of the founders of Hamas who was an informant for the Israeli secret service for over ten years, is almost staged like something out of Syriana or Zero Dark Thirty in Israeli writer-director Nadav Schirman’s new documentary, The Green Prince. Thankfully, the talking-head segments provide enough psychological insight to accompany the countless drone shots and menacing score. Story: Sundance: Robert Redford 'Not Upset' About Oscar Snub, Blames Roadside Attractions Schirman’s third feature documentary -- after The Champagne Spy, about a son and his Mossad agent father, and

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Music Box Films has acquired all U.S. rights excluding TV to Nadav Schirman's The Green Prince, a tense tale of seeming adversaries, a spy and a handler. The Sundance documentary feature follows Mosab Hassan Yousef, a Palestinian in Ramallah, who wants to fight Israel. At 17, he was arrested for smuggling guns, interrogated by Israel's security service, the Shin Bet, and sent to prison. Under the direction of his Shin Bet handler, Gonen, Mosab eventually agrees to spy for Israel, after being shocked by Hamas' ruthless tactics in prison and the rising suicide bombings in the outside world. Schirman, whose credits include

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Exclusive: Passion Pictures, executive producer of Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter, board documentary centred on recorded conversations of the boxing champion.

A theatrical documentary based around phone conversations made and received by boxing icon Muhammad Ali is in the works.

I Am Ali is the feature debut of Clare Lewins, who has previously directed episodes of British television series Countrywise, Perspectives andWho Do You Think You Are?.

For production details visit

I Am Ali

The documentary, which will feature interviews, archive and audio archive, is currently being edited for delivery at the end of 2013. Ali is aware of the project.

Financed by Universal Pictures, the film is made by Lewins’ Fisheye Productions and Passion Pictures, which has made hit documentaries such as One Day In September and Restrepo and executive produced award-winners Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter.

Speaking to ScreenDaily, executive producer John Battsek said: “It’s a film built around phone conversations...

Exclusive: Passion Pictures, executive producer of Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter, board documentary centred on recorded conversations of the boxing champion.

A theatrical documentary based around phone conversations made and received by boxing icon Muhammad Ali is in the works.

I Am Ali is the feature debut of Clare Lewins, who has previously directed episodes of British television series Countrywise, Perspectives andWho Do You Think You Are?.

For production details visit

I Am Ali

The documentary, which will feature interviews, archive and audio archive, is currently being edited for delivery at the end of 2013. Ali is aware of the project.

Financed by NBC Universal, the film is made by Lewins’ Fisheye Productions and Passion Pictures, which has made hit documentaries such as One Day In September and Restrepo and executive produced award-winners Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter.

Speaking to ScreenDaily, executive producer John Battsek said: “It’s a film built around phone conversations...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Passion Pictures and Red Box Films are proud to announce their new feature documentary Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story Of 007 directed by Stevan Riley (Fire In Babylon), produced by John Battsek (One Day In September, The Tillman Story) and Simon Chinn (Man On Wire, Project Nim) to coincide with the 50th anniversary of James Bond films on October 5. Country specific release plans to be announced shortly.

Everything Or Nothing focuses on three men with a shared dream . Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman and author Ian Fleming. It’s the thrilling and inspiring narrative behind the longest running film franchise in cinema history which began in 1962. With unprecedented access both to the key players involved and to Eon Productions’ extensive archive, this is the first time the inside story of the franchise has ever been told on screen in this way. Director Stevan Riley...