Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

Back Door Channels The Price of Peace, directed by Harry Hunkele, and produced by Arick Wierson, Donald Tanselle, Matthew Tollin and Vered Kollek is an American documentary film about the interplay between the official government channels and the men who acted largely behind the scenes during the course of peace process between Israel and Egypt. It was prereleased in June 2009, and later official bowed in October, 2010. Its mainstream theatrical release in the United States is scheduled for Sept., 2011.

The film begins with a sequence that combines historical footage with computergenerated imagery CGI to set the historical stage for the story. The segment was coproduced by Hunkele, executive producer Arick Wierson and the films artistic director, Rolan LeBreton. Critic Michael ORegan hails the animated sequence as an exceptionally accomplished opening sequence which inventively surmises millennia of enmity between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East in a meremin Jay Weissberg, writing for Variety, dismisses the sequence as a ridiculous potted history of Israel from Genesis to the states foundation in 1948 all inmin. Vanessa McMahton, filing for Fest21, thought the effects were one of the films strong suits The film is both poetic and informative interlacing art and CGI effects which add to the story aesthetically and descriptively. The sequence can be viewed online.After announcing that the film would officially debut in Abu Dhabi in late 2010, only weeks after President Obamas historic speech in Cairo, there was much anticipation surrounding the film. Reviews were mixed. Variety hailed the film as an enthralling dissection of the unlikely path to the groundbreaking treaty but later conceded that director the films Emmyaward winning director, Harry Hunkele, bites off more than he can chew. Film critic Michael ORegan called the film an original addition to the political documentary canon, although he goes on to say that its popular i.e. commercial appeal may be limited its greatest audience may well be found amongst academics. ........

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