Neon Joins Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor’s Explosive Gaza-Israel Doc ‘NAZA’ — SkimNews
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- Neon joined the Guardian, MK2 and filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor to expand NAZA’s footprint and reach larger audiences and communities.
- NAZA was released independently in the U.S. on September 30 in 85 theaters across 30 cities, while overseas theatrical distribution was secured in more than 50 countries.
- MK2 Films boarded NAZA for sales before the Venice Film Festival and, together with Neon, negotiated the later distribution deal.
- NAZA charts secret nighttime conversations on Tel Aviv rooftops that “reveal the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza by the people who designed and operated them.”
- NAZA debuted in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, won its Special Jury Prize and received a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation.
- NAZA won the San Sebastián International Film Festival audience award and this week’s Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Critics Prize, screened at New York Film Festival and was included on DOC NYC’s Short List.
- NAZA received three Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations: Best Documentary, Best Director(s) and Best Political Documentary.
Why it matters: For Neon, the agreement brings it into a distribution relationship with an award-winning documentary that drew a record 25-minute Venice ovation; for Abraham and Szor, it adds a partner after a release already spanning 85 U.S. theaters and more than 50 countries. The change is expanded distribution, not a launch from scratch.
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