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Gideon Raff [0-0] Israeli

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Producer, Film director

Gideon "Gidi" Raff is an Israeli film and television director, screenwriter, and writer. He is best known for the award-winning 2010 Israeli television drama series Prisoners of War and its acclaimed US adaptation, Homeland.

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The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.		101
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.		102
Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey.		103
When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that's a big production, to them it's a guerrilla shoot.		104
When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.		105
The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.		106
I'm Israeli and gay.		107
Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.		108
Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.		109

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