HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 08.02.2004 "Blues by the Beach" ***WINNER*** CONFLICT & RESOLUTION AWARD http://www.hamptonsfilmfest.org
GOLDEN WAGON FIRE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 08.02.2005 "Blues by the Beach" ***WINNER*** RED WAGON AWARD http://www.goldenwagonfilmfest.com/main.asp?id=Festival-Index
12th Avignon / New York Film Festival 11.19.2006"Blues by the Beach" ***WINNER*** BEST DOCUMENTARY / PIERRE SALINGER AWARD http://www.avignonfilmfest.com/newyork(2006).html
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“This is a very, very important film. It ranks, along with ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER as an actual, undeniable presentation of the unmitigated horror of terrorism. Terrorism is the directed, purposeful taking of innocent life for supposedly political purposes. Innocent life is innocent life, at the World Trade Center or in Tel Aviv its extinction is an act of bestiality. To which fact this film bluntly and incontestably testifies”. – David Mamet
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FILM FESTIVALS
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival
4.2.2006
"Blues by the Beach"
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http://www.vjff.org/films/film-detail.php?filmid=28
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
7.31.2006 & 8.3.2006
"Blues by the Beach"
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http://64.78.31.122/festival_2006/content.php?id=2&child_type=Movies&child_id=22
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival 26
1.15.07
"Blues by the Beach"
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http://www.gershmany.org/Film-Festival2.asp..Blues-by-the-Beach
NEWPORT BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
4.28.2005
"Blues by the Beach"
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http://www.newportbeachfilmfest.com
The Boston Jewish Film Festival
11.9.2006
"Blues by the Beach"
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http://www.bjff.org/festival_indiv_film.php?film_id=6034
2007 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
1.24.2007
"Blues by the Beach"
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http:// www.atlantajewishfilm.org
What is it like living in a state of perpetual war and terror? Israel is a paradise of sun and beach, of splendour and history. Is it crazy to live in a country where any day may bring death? Where 18-year-old boys and girls are required to enlist in the army? Where the mobile phone system collapses weekly under the pressure of worried Israelis checking-up on their loved ones? Israel is a place where daily life is both glory and affliction.
Mike’s Place is a popular live music bar on the Tel Aviv beachfront. It could be any rock and blues bar in any city, anywhere in the world. Three filmmakers chose Mike’s Place to show the bloodshed and fear on news broadcasts is not the whole story concerning Israel. People there still laugh, dance and listen to music despite the seemingly endless warfare and terrorism.
The bartenders and waitresses and their regulars are the film’s subjects and serve as guides to an Israeli Experience. They are young, come from all over the world, and live in this land because they choose to. The ever-present danger does not stop them, if anything, it intensifies their desire to live life to the full.
Tragedy put in its appearance at Mike’s Place after midnight on Wednesday, April 30th, 2003. Death and injury came in the twinkling of an eye, intruding on the idyll the filmmakers had begun to capture: a suicide bomber exploded himself on Jam Nite. Yanai Weiss and Ran Baron, two musicians, and Dominique Hass, a waitress who had emigrated from France, were killed. Among the dozens injured in the powerful blast are: Avi Tabib, the security guard, who heroically saved everyone inside the bar by pushing the bomber out the doorway; and one of the three filmmakers – Jack Baxter, an American documentary producer and freelance journalist, who came to Tel Aviv and found a story to tell about present day Israel at Mike’s Place.
As word of the “piguah” (terrorist bombing) is broadcast everywhere in real time, footage taken from this film hit the television airways and front pages of newspapers worldwide. The footage aired across Europe, America, Israel, and the Arab world.
While Jack lay in hospital recovering from serious wounds, the two other filmmakers, director Joshua Faudem, an American-born Israeli, and his girlfriend, Pavla Fleischer, a writer/director from the Czech Republic, were suddenly brought from behind the camera and into the spotlight. Joshua and Pavla continued to film, showing it all from the eye of the hurricane. They attended the daily Mike’s Place “family” gatherings till the early mornings, visited the injured in hospital, recorded the vibrant original live blues of Mike’s Place, and followed preparations for the memorial service that marked the reopening of the bar.
Blues By The Beach not only has footage of a suicide bombing; the film shows the effects of terror, the aftermath and moving on. Joshua and Pavla see a real-life dramatic script writing itself before their camera and understand that the emotional upheaval in their personal relationship is an integral part of the Israeli Experience and the story of the Mike’s Place bombing.
It takes one shovel to move a mountain. One good heart to help and make change on Itour world .well we make two and their must be a third and forth out their .If the old people in power were the only ones called to war, their would never be one. every mother and dad should tell their children.... JUST SAY NO TO KILLING PEOPLE U NEVER MET.. Peace and love Thank You...Richard Hydell and Wrecked
Hey wuts poppin BluesbytheBeach NEW SONG!!! NEW SONG!!! ON HEBREW!!!! "Egia hazman" in english - "Its time to" You have to hear it!! why ? Cuz its the DIRTY MIDLLE EAST STYLE!!! come and listen to my other tracks they are in english i hope u gonna like it!! PEACE IN the midlle east!!! JU!
It takes one shovel to move a mountain. One good heart to help and make change on our world .well we make two and their must be a third and forth out their .If the old people in power were the only ones called to war, their would never be one. every mother and dad should tell their children.... JUST SAY NO TO KILLING PEOPLE U NEVER MET.. Peace and love Thank You...Richard
