Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre

Wednesday, March 13 | 9:30 AM Bagels and Schmoozing |10:30 AM - Movie | 52 Minutes | Hebrew

"Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre" charts the dramatic events that took place during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack at the music festival in Southern Israel through the eyes of survivors.

Currently in post-production, the immersive one-hour film features eyewitness accounts from survivors of the massacre and first responders, as well as real-time footage collected from multiple sources. In addition, the doc provides a timeline of the attack, in which 365 attendees were killed, hundreds wounded and 40 kidnapped. The film portrays several survivors, one of whom hid in a shelter that was hit by a grenade, as well as parents whose children have been taken hostage.

The film’s team includes producers Reinhardt Beetz, Duki Dror (“Inside the Mossad”), and leading Israeli producer/EP Danna Stern (“The Devil Next Door,” “The Oslo Diaries”). The documentary is also a collective effort that has brought together award-winning filmmakers and producers such as Yossi Bloch (“The Devil Next Door”), Noam Pinchas (“Murky Skies”), and executive producer Arthur Essebag, a revered French producer, TV host and founder of Satisfaction Group.

“We started covering the event in real time, but only now are the details of this coordinated terror attack coming together to provide a comprehensive overview,” said Beetz, CEO of Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion, adding that this “story will undoubtedly resonate for years to come.”

Dror, who is co-directing and producing, said “The magnitude and scenes we have documented are almost inconceivable and unprecedentedly they have been filmed by both perpetrators and victims.”

The filmmaker have collected footage from dozens of different sources including Hamas’ own cameramen and GoPros, the victims’ mobile phones, CCTV footage, dash cams and from first responders on site, providing an unprecedented, comprehensive and emotional overview of the massacre.