Filmmaker Shlomi Eldar, a prominent Israeli journalist, uses his influence to call attention
to a poor Palestinian baby boy in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. The boy’s
family and Eldar are overjoyed when an anonymous Israeli donor agrees to sponsor the
operation. But the situation unexpectedly draws out the mother’s deep-seated prejudice,
and in turn, Eldar questions his own ideas about tolerance. PRECIOUS LIFE is a challenge
to the senselessness of ongoing violence, and a demand for human understanding and
reconciliation, in the midst of the 2008-2009 blockade of Gaza.
This small film won the Israeli Academy award for best documentary in 2010 and was
sold to HBO.
I did the color grading and some complicated image restorations for the film.
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