The BBC announced this week that it will broadcast the Nova Music Festival documentary Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again.
The 90-minute film, which contains unseen footage and gives insight into Hamas’s attack on 7 October, will air on BBC Two and iPlayer. It was commissioned by BBC Storyville.
This comes amid claims of anti-Israel bias in the BBC since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, including a scandal caused last week by British Lawyer Trevor Asserson’s report that the BBC breached its own editorial guidelines for news coverage more than 1,500 times since the beginning of the war.
Lucie Kon, the Commissioning Editor at BBC Storyville, said: “I am grateful to the young survivors of the Nova Music Festival who have trusted us to share their experiences of that terrible day so that BBC viewers can get a sense of some of what they experienced. This is an important film.”
The documentary, directed by Israeli director Yariv Mozer, starts on October 6 and shows the arrival of thousands of festival goers at the party site in the Negev, near the Gaza border.
It then features the attack at 6:30 am on Saturday, October 7, using testimonies, videos, CCTV, GoPro footage from the Hamas live stream, and phone and dashcam footage to depict the events. The footage covers the six-plus hours that people tried to hide or escape from the terrorists
