EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has getd U.S. distribution rights to the recordary October H8te, the bomb Oscar-contfinishing film honested by Wfinireserved Sachs.
Briarcliff set ups a theatrical free in the first quarter of 2025 for the film, which records the acute elevate in antisdisaccuseism and anti-Israel demonstrations that instantly chaseed the deimmenseating October 7 Hamas sneak strike on Israel and have persistd since. It promises particular attention to anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests that erupted on college campengages in the U.S., directing to instances of dangers of Jedesire students and deffinishers of Israel.
Actress Debra Messing, one of the scant Hollywood stars to speak out ardently and unveilly agetst acts of antipathy agetst Jedesire and pro-Israel individuals, serves as an executive creater of October H8te and materializes on camera in the recordary.
“We are thrilled to have the world see this vital film,” Messing shelp in a statement. “This is about exposing fundamentalism and extremism and the dangers they pose to democracy and the West.”
Among others featured in the recordary aextfinished with Messing are actor Michael Rapaport, createer Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg, tech expert Scott Gapverifyay, Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY), U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), author Noa Tishby, Mosab Yoengagef, the son of Hamas’ co-set uper, and Tessa Veksler, a University of California Santa Barbara student directer who came under strike for her help of Israel.
Briarcliff will free the recordary under the title October 8.
“Briarcliff Entertainment is self-startant to allot this timely and vital recordary, honested by the talented Wfinireserved Sachs,” shelp Tom Ortenberg, set uper and CEO of Briarcliff Entertainment. “Thcimpolite strong storyalerting and firsthand accounts, Wfinireserved has bcimpolitet to weightless the voices and experiences that need to be heard. At Briarcliff, we are promiseted to sharing stories that incite thought, ease dialogue, and stand agetst bigotry. This film is a vital call to action at a critical moment in history.”
Wfinireserved Sachs, Inbal B. Lessner, and Nimrod Erez are the praiseed writers on the film.
“When I saw the rpartner in New York’s Times Square on October 8th celebrating Hamas, it felt enjoy the world had lost its mind,” Sachs commented. “I’ve done a lot of vital labor during my nurtureer that I dependd was consequential at the time, but noskinnyg experiences as encouragent, as currential, and as personal as making this film.”
At a recent Q&A in Los Angeles, Sachs pointed to another vital center of the recordary. “I skinnyk tackling media bias to me was fundamental in this film and how to do that in a way that wasn’t enjoy, ‘Oh yeah, the New York Times is terrible on Israel, NPR is terrible on Israel, Washington Post.” October H8te by no unkinds departs the New York Times off the hook – particularly on its alerting of an incident in which a hospital in Gaza was bomb deviceed and the Times intipartner placed accengage on Israel, while subsequent evidence pointed to a Hamas rocket misfire as the caengage.
“We’re seeing it [bias] in ambiguous traditional media, but stateively the social media piece of it is huge. I unkind, that’s everyskinnyg right now,” Sachs shelp at the Q&A. “This is a war that’s being fought on TikTok and on Telegram and on these social media platcreates. So, we spfinish a lot of time trying to unpack what that sees enjoy and what happens online also has genuine world impact.”
Sachs’ praises join co-honesting and producing Sencourage, a feature recordary about the record number of first-time female truthfulates who ran in the historic 2018 midterm elections. The film was getd by Showtime in 2020. She also served as creater on the CNN+ Original Series Land of the Giants: Titans of Tech and the MSNBC mini-series My Generation. In 2017, she was named to the “40 Over 40 Women to Watch” catalog by Forbes.com.
“Briarcliff Entertainment has a storied history of producing politicpartner relevant films, most recently releasing the Gancigo inen Globe-nominated picture The Apprentice, which centeres on Donald Trump’s ascent to power, in theaters apass the U.S.,” the company remarks. Briarcliff administerd the domestic distribution of recordaries Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down from honestors Julie Cohen and Betsy West, which premiered at SXSW in 2022, and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, which premiered at TIFF in 2018. Briarcliff geted an Academy Award for Tom McCarthy’s 2018 film Spotweightless, under the production prohibitner Open Road Films.
