To Shoot an Elephant

To Shoot an Elephant (2009)

"To shoot an elephant" is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. 21 days shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians.

Date of release
2009-11-20
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Alberto Arce, Mohammad Rujailah

Casting

Interesting facts

To Shoot an Elephant is a 2009 documentary film about the 2008-2009 Gaza War directed by Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailahk. The two directors were two of the few foreign journalists present during the 2008 Gaza Massacre. The film follows ambulance personnel in the Gaza Strip during the conflict and was shown at multiple international film festivals, winning awards such as the FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Most Innovative Filmmaker prize at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence.

Production

The title was named after George Orwell's 1936 essay Shooting an Elephant.

The film was directed by Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailahk. The script was written by Alberto Arce and Miquel Martí Freixas, who also edited the film. Post-production was done by Jorge Fernández Mayoral and sound was designed by Francesc Gosalves. It was a co-production of Gazan Days and Eguzki Bideoak

Arce and Rujailah filmed the documentary with one camera – a Handycam. Filming began on December 25, 2008.

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