"Dispatches: The Killing Zone" by Channel 4 News, U.K. (2003)

Documentary - English & Arabic with English sub-titles

Approx. Length: 52 mins.

Narration by: Sandra Jordan

Description:

With the world’s attention fixed on the war in Iraq, Dispatches reporter Sandra Jordan and producer Rodrigo Vasquez risk their lives to reveal the shocking level of daily violence in the Gaza Strip.  The Killing Zone documents the lives of ordinary Palestinians subsisting under this violence, enduring an occupation that does not discriminate between militants and civilians, and which has also killed Western peace activists like Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall and award-winning British film-maker James Miller.  In true investigative journalism style, Jordan interviews Israeli government and military spokespersons about the killings of Corrie, Hurndall, and Miller, and juxtaposes their statements against eyewitness interviews.  She skillfully demolishes Israeli PR claims that any of these internationals was complicit in their own death, or that they were caught in an ambiguous "crossfire."

This is an important film, and one of the few documentaries to depict the true motivations and actions of indivuduals involved in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

Distributor E-mail: info@journeyman.tv

More about the film & film-maker: www.channel4.com

Film Distribution: Journeyman Pictures

Canadian Screenings: Winnipeg

Rated: 14A (Manitoba Film Classification Board), scenes of violence.