On the spot – Gaza

Running time: 30'

An Israeli airstrike kills Ahmed Jabari, the leader of the Al Qassam Brigade. Amidst the chaos a young combatant gathers up flesh and an eye of Jabari in a cloth and takes them to the place where the body is being mourned. God willing, he will one day blow himself up in Israel so they will look like this too. At the same time Bissan, the daughter of the Palestinian journalist who is supervising the filming in Gaza, has three fingers blown off by shrapnel, and he fights for her to have surgery in Israel. The operation there is a success. The concept of OTS, a TV documentary series that has been a world-wide success is: Let the locals tell their stories.

Authors:

  • Eszter Cseke

    Eszter Cseke and Andras Takacs are digital journalists and documentary filmmakers, creators, presenters and producers of On The Spot. On The Spot is an award-winning documentary series that covers the hot spots of the planet, digging for human stories behind the news with two cameras, without a crew, giving the films extraordinary intimacy and honesty from ghettos of Johannesburg to the revolution of Egypt, from earth quakes in Japan to the opposition movement in Iran. The motto of the series is from the Hungarian war photographer, Robert Capa: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." The filmmakers have received the Press Freedom Award in Strasbourg and the Prix Jury in Karlovy Vary, and the Golden Nymph Award for the Best News Documentary at Monte-Carlo TV Festival in 2013.

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  • Andras S. Takacs

    Eszter Cseke and Andras Takacs are digital journalists and documentary filmmakers, creators, presenters and producers of On The Spot. On The Spot is an award-winning documentary series that covers the hot spots of the planet, digging for human stories behind the news with two cameras, without a crew, giving the films extraordinary intimacy and honesty from ghettos of Johannesburg to the revolution of Egypt, from earth quakes in Japan to the opposition movement in Iran. The motto of the series is from the Hungarian war photographer, Robert Capa: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." The filmmakers have received the Press Freedom Award in Strasbourg and the Prix Jury in Karlovy Vary, and the Golden Nymph Award for the Best News Documentary at Monte-Carlo TV Festival in 2013.

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