’5 Broken Cameras’ and ‘The Gatekeepers’ nominated for Best Documentary Oscar

Adam Horowitz on January 10, 2013

Today, two films critical of Israeli occupation policy — ’5 Broken Cameras’ and ‘The Gatekeepers’ — were nominated for the 2013 Best Documentary Feature Oscar award. In his review of ‘The Gatekeepers’ Phil Weiss wrote, “The film’s prominence, following the earlier success of ‘The Law in These Parts’ and ’5 Broken Cameras’, signals a new discourse in the United States: Our prestige media are going to start talking about the vicious cruelty of the occupation.”
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