It is a film about the Hamas attack on 7th October 2024 and the invasion of Gaza told and filmed by the people directly affected on either side of the border.
Made by the team behind the Emmy and Peabody winning Mariupol: The People’s Story, the film features exclusive footage shot by our Israeli interviewees as they find themselves in the middle of the Hamas outrage and footage shot by our Gazan interviewees as they chart the horror of life and loss under a remorseless assault.
The film will be revelatory in detail, balanced and strictly fact checked, but above all it will be a story of normal people who the audience can relate to, people just like them but who are living in the most extraordinary and dramatic of circumstances. It is available to broadcast just before the one-year anniversary of the start of the conflict in October this year.
THE TELEGRAPH
"An extraordinarily, unflinching, fastidiously even-handed piece of filmmaking. One wishes nothing but the best for everybody who had the courage to appear - and director/producer Robin Barnwell deserves all the inevitable plaudits."
THE DAILY MAIL
***** [Five Stars]
THE DAILY MAIL
"Does a fine job of conveying the scale of the horror and terror inflicted on Israel on 7 October 2023"
THE GUARDIAN
"Robin Barnwell, director of Mariupol: The People's Story, has here told an even trickier narrative with profound care."
DAILY TELEGRAPH
**** [Four Stars]
FINANCIAL TIMES
"Essential viewing."
THE TIMES
**** [Four Stars] "This goes behind the headlines, following the harrowing ordeals of individuals caught in the conflict."
DAILY MAIL WEEKEND
"Pick of the day."
TOTAL TV GUIDE
"Pick of the day. We get a sense of the carnage, the waste, the grief and loss - and the deepening hatred on both sides."
RADIO TIMES
"This moving and disturbing documentary takes viewers into the heart of the matter."
THE HERALD
"Powerful film. Don't miss."
INSIDE SOAP
"Pick of the day."
THE SUN
"Pick of the day."
THE TIMES
"Pick of the day."
DAILY MAIL WEEKEND
"Pick of the day."
THE I WEEKEND
"Pick of the day."
THE OBSERVER
"With horrifyingly raw footage from Gaza hospitals, the Nova festival attacked by Hamas and the ruined lives of Palestinians, this documentary does an agonisingly good job of humanising the horror that has unfolded in Israel and Gaza since last October."
THE GUARDIAN
"“Everyone has their view about who is to blame or whether Israel’s response is justified. We can debate broadcasters’ bias. But Barnwell’s focus is on the victims, and here he achieves balance. The terrified Jewish child in the kibbutz and the terrified Palestinian boy in the hospital are both suffering through no fault of their own.”
THE TELEGRAPH
"The week's highlights."
THE OBSERVER
"Powerful film."
THE TELEGRAPH
"Robin Barnwell has gathered accounts from both sides of the conflict and the results hard-wire us to its human tragedy."
RADIO TIMES
"Into the Abyss does go further than almost any other western media portrayal of the devastation."
THE GUARDIAN
**** [Four Stars]
THE TELEGRAPH