Nurit Kedar

Nurit Kedar is an Israeli producer and director of documentary films.

During the 1980s, she worked in the news department of Israel's Channel 1 in Washington. At the beginning of the 1990s, she returned to Israel, where she worked for CNN and was a senior producer for Keshet television from the time it started broadcasting on Channel 2. She produced the documentary series The Fat Man with the Sony, starring Yaron London. Together with London, she also produced for Keshet the series The Poetics of the Masses, Buddha Pizza Krishna Cola and Mr Prime Minister. Kedar produced the film Istiklal, by the director Nizar Hassan, which won the Wolgin award for best Israeli documentary at the 1994 Jerusalem Film Festival.

Kedar spoke of her film-making philosophy in a 2008 interview with Al-Jazeera: "I like conflicts, anything that has conflict, that's what I like. That's why I do wars … because that's the conflict of our lives here. I don't believe in film you can really change people but here in society we do nothing to stop the conflict, that's why I am me. I personally don't see any light at the end. It is for me that I am critical and not easy to watch and lots of people don't like it."^[1]

Kedar's film Asesino, on the disappearance and presumed murder of thousands of young Jews during the Dirty War following the 1976 coup, won the Noga Award at the 2001 Jerusalem Film Festival. Her film One Shot, which included "unprecedented" interviews with Israeli snipers and footage of them at work,^[2] received the 2004 Cologne Conference Phoenix Award.^[3]

In extracts from Kedar's film Concrete broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 television on 26 January 2011, Israeli soldiers who took part in the 2008–09 attack on Gaza spoke of their orders, and stated that their commanders "psyched them up" and ordered "disproportionate" force.^[4] Following the broadcast, Kedar told Channel 4 News that she had received threatening messages calling her a traitor, calling for her to be expelled from Israel, and death threats.^[5][6] She said she had not received any messages of support from Israelis for making the film.^[6]

References

1. ^ Norman, Greg. "Critical eye on Israel's military". Al Jazeera. doi:29 August 2008. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2008/04/2008615165954710853.html. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 
2. ^ "One Shot (2004) Review Summary". New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/309299/One-Shot/overview. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 
3. ^ "The 2004 Awardees". Cologne Conference. http://www.cologne-conference.de/en/meta/archive/2004/awardees/. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 
4. ^ "Revealed: story of Israeli troops told to 'cleanse' Gaza". Channel 4 News. 26 January 2011. http://www.channel4.com/news/filmmaker-tells-story-of-israelis-told-to-cleanse-gaza. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 
5. ^ Rosen, Robyn (27 January 2011). "Death threats over Israeli's Gaza film". Jewish Chronicle. http://www.thejc.com/gaza/44365/death-threats-over-israelis-gaza-film. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "Israeli filmmaker receives death threats over Gaza". Channel 4. 2011-01-27. http://www.channel4.com/news/israeli-filmmaker-receives-death-threats-over-gaza-report. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 

External links

• Merav Yudilovitch, Return to the cursed mountain, Ynetnews, 22 February 2007
• Svetvilas, Chuleenan (2007-11). "Interview: Nurit Kedar: Looking for the Hard Way". DOX - European Documentary Magazine. http://www.dokumentar.no/?artg=59805&s=art. Retrieved 1 February 2011. 
• Nurit Kedar at the Internet Movie Database

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