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Hamas funds movie trilogy on Schalit abduction
Hamas funds $95,000 of the $120,000 required to produce the film • Writer-director Majed Jundiyeh: "I'm working to establish a movie industry of resistance in Gaza, to reflect the Palestinian story with Palestinian actors."
Daniel Siryoti, The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff
Mahmoud Karira plays Gilad Schalit in the Hamas-funded film "Losing Schalit"
The Gaza Strip's film industry will soon release the first part of a movie trilogy on the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006.
"Losing Schalit" will be the second feature-length film made in the Gaza Strip since 2009. It is the first of a planned three-part series about the abduction, which was carried out by gunmen allied with the Islamic terrorist group Hamas. The second and third parts will depict Schalit's time in captivity and his 2011 swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Schalit is played by Mahmoud Karira, a 27-year-old resident of Gaza. The budget for the film was $120,000, of which $95,000 was financed by Hamas.
Schalit's abduction and eventual prisoner swap are seen by Hamas as a triumph in its long-running confrontation with Israel, and helped boost the movement's support in Gaza.
Writer-director Majed Jundiyeh, who also made the territory's first full-length feature "Emad Akel" -- a 2009 film about the Hamas military wing commander of the same name -- said his work was intentionally political.
"I'm working to establish a movie industry of resistance in Gaza, to reflect the Palestinian story with Palestinian actors," he said.
Jundiyeh, 47, studied film in Germany in the 1980s and 1990s and said his teachers included director Volker Schloendorff, a prominent member of the New German Cinema. After his return to Gaza in 1996, Jundiyeh made documentaries and acted in a soap opera on Palestine TV
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Hamas funds movie trilogy on Schalit abduction
Hamas funds $95,000 of the $120,000 required to produce the film • Writer-director Majed Jundiyeh: "I'm working to establish a movie industry of resistance in Gaza, to reflect the Palestinian story with Palestinian actors."
Daniel Siryoti, The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff
Mahmoud Karira plays Gilad Schalit in the Hamas-funded film "Losing Schalit"
The Gaza Strip's film industry will soon release the first part of a movie trilogy on the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006.
"Losing Schalit" will be the second feature-length film made in the Gaza Strip since 2009. It is the first of a planned three-part series about the abduction, which was carried out by gunmen allied with the Islamic terrorist group Hamas. The second and third parts will depict Schalit's time in captivity and his 2011 swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Schalit is played by Mahmoud Karira, a 27-year-old resident of Gaza. The budget for the film was $120,000, of which $95,000 was financed by Hamas.
Schalit's abduction and eventual prisoner swap are seen by Hamas as a triumph in its long-running confrontation with Israel, and helped boost the movement's support in Gaza.
Writer-director Majed Jundiyeh, who also made the territory's first full-length feature "Emad Akel" -- a 2009 film about the Hamas military wing commander of the same name -- said his work was intentionally political.
"I'm working to establish a movie industry of resistance in Gaza, to reflect the Palestinian story with Palestinian actors," he said.
Jundiyeh, 47, studied film in Germany in the 1980s and 1990s and said his teachers included director Volker Schloendorff, a prominent member of the New German Cinema. After his return to Gaza in 1996, Jundiyeh made documentaries and acted in a soap opera on Palestine TV
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