Sipur teams up with Hot Channel 8, Hscc to produce Israeli Music Festival massacre documentary

Sipur, in association with Israeli broadcaster HOT Channel 8 and HSCC, has begun production on a new film documentary telling the story of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of hundreds of youths at the international Tribe of Nova’s Supernova Music Festival in Kibbutz Re’im. “We have moved quickly to make this documentary, because we believe it is imperative to do everything in our power to shine a light on the greatest evil committed against our people since the Holocaust," Sipur CEO Emilio Schenker said.

Led by award-winning director Yariv Mozer, whose filmography includes "The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes" and "Ben Gurion: Epilogue," the documentary chronicles an event solely focused on music, love and freedom before devolving into the deadliest day in Israeli history. It will be released in Israel and globally over the coming year. "The Supernova Music Festival must be seen and understood in its entirety to truly understand the larger meaning of the unspeakable crimes against humanity that occurred there," Schenker said. "The world must never forget.”

Sipur has acquired exclusive material from participants and key people at the festival seeking to honor the scores of young victims to present through the production. The filmmakers will present an in-depth look at the Festival before, during and after the horrific event. It will include interviews with investigators, soldiers and journalists shocked by the carnage they have witnessed, as well as unseen footage gathered from the festival-goers. 

"I have seen things in my life. I have lived through wars; I have fought in wars and I have even filmed during a war," Mozer said. "But nothing prepared me to the harsh images I have seen in the remains of the massacre that took place at the Nova music festival. I see it as my duty as a documentary filmmaker to bring to the world the testimonies and horrific stories from the survivors of this slaughter. Young women and men whose only sin was their desire for music, and the passion to celebrate free love, spirit and freedom."