EXCLUSIVE: Sure Studios‘ highly effective documentary concerning the Supernova Music Competition, the location the place the October 7 bloodbath started, has been offered to its first worldwide territory.
Norway’s VGTV has picked up #NOVA and the one doc will launch within the Nordic nation this week.
#NOVA makes use of self-shot and principally unique footage from pageant attendees to chronicle, minute-by-minute, the tragic occasions of the day when Hamas militants attacked the pageant, killing greater than 300 partygoers and kidnapping an extra 40. The movie portrays real-time reactions and feelings to the horror.
#NOVA aired on sure TV late final 12 months and was one of many first docs introduced after October 7. We hear distributor sure Studios is negotiating with a variety of different patrons because the devastating Israel-Hamas battle passes the six month mark.
“We at the moment are six months on from the Nova pageant and because the battle continues and narratives shift every day, we’re seeing new curiosity on this movie from a spread of broadcasters,” mentioned sure MD Sharon Levi. “#NOVA paperwork the brutal begin of the battle, an necessary second in historical past, and captures completely different viewpoints with out a standard information agenda. Importantly, it additionally serves as a reminder that we nonetheless don’t know the destiny of a few of the younger individuals kidnapped on this present day.”
Levi praised Norway’s VGTV for having a “popularity for buying huge, high-quality documentaries for its viewers.”
#NOVA was produced by Kastina Communications for sure Docu, with Dan Pe-er directing.
A variety of different docs are being made about these tragic days in October together with We Will Dance Once more from Dangerous Boys studio Sipur and a characteristic about sexual atrocities dedicated by Hamas fronted by Sheryl Sandberg.