“We expect the soundtrack will be absolutely crucial for a sensitive, character-driven film such as this. Next up for the team is completing the post-production process which includes developing the soundtrack. Vilification, antisemitism, and violence became part of our daily lives over the next two-and-a-half decades.” We weren’t accepted by our neighbours and integration in the community was an impossibility. “And being the only Jewish family in the neighbourhood was difficult. “We were raised in a rough inner-city area of Sydney,” he said.
Scenes are also shot on location in Tel Aviv, with Israeli actress Lital Luzon playing Gil’s long-distance love interest.įor Ben-Moshe, getting into character wasn’t too hard, considering his character is semi-biographical. The scene features both Gil and Oren together, alongside actor and politician Michael Gencher, performer Geoff Sirmai and teacher from Moriah College, Yonatan Barukh. The Jewish themes continue through the film with another scene shot inside Sydney’s Kehillat Kadimah. The irony of the scene is the Morcan co-authored a book in 2016 titled Debunking Holocuast Denial Theories, with the assistance of Holocaust survivors. “And by giving a Holocaust-denying character enough rope, he, of course, eventually hangs himself when he is shown to have zero historical facts as my character systematically debunks his erroneous theories one by one.” “It is obviously an extremely sensitive subject to capture on film, but somehow by laying bare the unyielding hatred individuals like James’ character possess, we will hopefully display to film audiences the everyday challenges Jews face in the wider world,” he said. What’s explosive, according to Ben-Moshe, is that the antisemitic mindset still exists in all Holocaust deniers. Ben-Moshe’s character directly confronts Morcan when he overhears him inform a carer that the Holocaust was all just “a hoax” and that “six million Jews did not die”. One scene in particular is quite explosive, which the filmmakers believe will make an emphatic statement about the alarming and fascistic reasons why certain people still attempt to deny the historically verified genocide.įilmed in Sydney’s South Head Cemetery, a solitary mourner, played by Gil, remonstrates with an antisemitic visitor, played by Morcan. Directed by James Morcan, who also stars in the film, and produced by MoneyShot Productions (Gil and Oren Ben-Moshe), the film looks at the chaos that the world descended into during Anno MMXX – the year 2020 – particularly the ugly phenomenon of Holocaust denial, which the film addresses head on.
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