Written by Tom ShovalJune Zero was an unexpected cinematic adventure for me. One day at the end of 2018, I got a call from the researcher of the film who mentioned that director Jake Paltrow had come to Israel to scout and conduct interviews with some of the people involved in the events of Eichmann's trial and that he was looking for a screenwriter to collaborate with. I am a filmmaker, writer, and director, and at the time I was working on my second feature, Shake Your Cares Away. I knew Paltrow only by reputation, having enjoyed his previous films De Palma (2015) and Young Ones (2014), and was open to meeting. We met in a noisy bar by the sea and the conversation ignited immediately. Jake told me about the idea he had for the film that came from reading about the process of building the oven that was used to cremate Eichmann's body and the extensive research he was doing. The Holocaust in the Eichmann trial became history, documented, legal truth, and the script writing was a part of the thematic existence of the film—questioning what is a story and what is historical truth and where the two meet. June Zero - Trailer www.youtube.com The writing process, which stretched over a year, began in Israel and continued to New York. Jake and I worked together in English although sometimes I would write some scenes in Hebrew and get them translated and we would rework them. Then when the...
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