Festivals: Haifa International Film Festival Input (1999), Miniput – Barcelona (1999), Toronto Jewish Film Festival (1999), Tampa Jewish Film Festival (1999), Basic Trust Human Rights Festival (2000) Portland Jewish Film Festival (2000) Dallas Video Festival (2000
Awards: First prize in the International Actual Awards, Barcelona (1998). Primetime War was selected as part of the British selection for screening in INPUT '99.
Broadcast: Channel 4 (England), CBC (Canada), TV2 (Denmark), VRT (Belgium), SBS (Australia), MDR (Germany), Phoenix (Germany), ORF (Austria), Channel 2 (Israel), Sphinx TV (Japan), Multicanal (Spain), TV3 (Spain), RTI (Italy), VRT (Belgium), The Documentary Channel NZ,
Original Language: English

Primetime War

Israel / 1998 / Noam Shalev / 50 mins

A 50-minute documentary, dealing with the role of the media in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Primetime War follows the story of two cameramen - Jimmy Michael, a Palestinian cameraman from Bethlehem, working for the BBC, and Alon Bernstein, an Israeli cameraman from Jerusalem, employed by Associated Press. For a period of one year, Primetime War followed the cameramen in their work, as well as during their leisure time.