{"id":12164,"date":"2014-01-27T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2014-01-27T08:25:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:25:51","slug":"israeli-documentary-on-hamas-spy-wins-sundance-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israeli-documentary-on-hamas-spy-wins-sundance-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli documentary on Hamas spy wins Sundance honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; An Israeli documentary about how the son of Hamas leader Hassan Yousef spent a decade as Israel\u2019s top informer in the West Bank received a top honor at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Green Prince,&#8221; which premiered last week at the film festival in Utah, won the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Mosab Hassan Yousef\u2019s autobiography, \u201cSon of Hamas,\u201d the film tells the story of his odyssey from young militant to spy for Israel\u2019s security service to Southern California asylum seeker fighting to avoid deportation back to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Yousef\u2019s code name within the Shin Bet was derived from the green color of the Hamas flag and his near royal pedigree among Palestinians. The documentary is told through a combination of interviews, reenactments and archival footage.<\/p>\n<p>During the film festival, the documentary scored distribution deals in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%20Israeli%20documentary%20on%20Hamas%20spy%20wins%20Sundance%20honors\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4883,40,8790,8795,8788,4884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12165,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}