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July 17, 2006
'KILLERS' BOWS VIA CITY LIGHTS

By Gregg Goldstein - Hollywood Reporter

NEW YORK -- City Lights Pictures Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to the torn-from-the-headlines terrorism documentary "Suicide Killers."

Pierre Rehov's feature examines the phenomenon of suicide bombers through interviews with their family members, along with prisoners whose bombing attempts have been thwarted. The film's revelations about the bombers' true motivations are both surprising and shocking.

The distributor is giving the English-language film a weeklong Oscar-qualifying run next month in New York, with a release in select U.S. cities tentatively scheduled for later this year. "We feel this will be one of the most important and provocative documentaries of the year," City Lights CEO Danny Fisher said. Lisa Magnas served as the executive in charge of production.

This is the second theatrical release from City Lights Pictures Releasing, which this year distributed Jeremy Haft's supernatural thriller "Tamara."

Its sibling production outfit, City Lights Pictures, is completing postproduction on Talia Lugacy's thriller "Descent," produced and starring Rosario Dawson. The company is about to begin principal photography on David Wain's Ten Commandments spoof "The Ten" starring Jessica Alba, Amanda Peet, Paul Rudd and Adam Brody.

Parent company City Lights Media Group finances, produces and distributes films and TV programs along with operating one the largest postproduction facilities in the U.S.

City Lights principal Michael Almog negotiated the deal with Rehov and Magnas.

Pierre Rehov's films are now available at:

"Palestinian mythology is based on an absurd "martyrdom
philosophy" that every reporter working in the "territories" is forced to buy, in order to work safely.

There is no freedom of press under the Palestinian Authority, and no journalist can report honestly without risking is life.

Palestinians deserve a country and self determination, but that will not happen as long as Israelis are described the way they are by most TV networks.

That leads to a situation where Palestinians are not considered grown-ups, while Jews are demonized in the same way they have been during the worst periods of their tragic history.

If a Palestinian child is found in the streets, throwing stones at a soldier, you have to ask yourself: "Who sent him there? Where are the parents ? Who is hiding with a gun behind him?"

I saw that happen many times, and I am asking you: 

If you want to protect Palestinian children, don't let them be used as human shields by Muslim extremists! Don't keep silent! Do something, now!"

(Pierre Rehov, on French television, 5th channel - March 2004)

Since the uprising of the second intifada
Pierre Rehov directed six major documentaries:

Palestinian television and media - A new programmed holocaust?

Arafat's real project - A Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean sea

Why is Bethlehem no longer a Christian town? How Christians survive under Muslim laws

52 Palestinians dead versus 23 Israelis dead... is that a massacre? Even the Palestinian Authority says no. How does propaganda create myths?

The exodus of a million Jews expelled from Arab countries after 1948. Who knows about them? Why didn't they ever receive the status of refugees that they deserved?

Why are most Palestinians still considered as refugees after 55 years? Why are they still living in camps? Who is responsible for this humanitarian disaster?

The Counterterrorism Blog Interview with Pierre Rehov, documentary filmmaker, on psychology behind suicide bombings.

On July 15, I appeared on MSNBC's "Connected" program to discuss the 7/7 London attacks (you can see video of the segment on the linked page). One of my fellow guests was Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker who has filmed six documentaries on the intifada by going undercover in the Palestinian areas. Pierre's upcoming film, "Suicide Killers," is based on interviews that he conducted with the families of suicide bombers and would-be bombers in an attempt to find out why they do it. Pierre agreed to my request for a Q&A interview here about his work on the new film. Many thanks to Dean Draznin and Arlyn Riskind for helping to arrange this special interview.

What inspired you to produce 'Suicide Killers," your seventh film?
I started working with victims of suicide attacks to make a film on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) when I became fascinated with the personalities of those who had committed those crimes, as they were described again and again by their victims. Especially the fact that suicide bombers are all smiling one second before they blow themselves up.

Why is this film especially important?
People don't understand the devastating culture behind this unbelievable phenomenon. My film is not politically correct because it addresses the real problem—showing the real face of Islam. It points the finger against a culture of hatred in which the uneducated are brainwashed to a level where their only solution in life becomes to kill themselves and kill others in the name of a God whose word, as transmitted by other men, has became their only certitude.

Click here to read more of the Counterterrorism Interview