Blues by the Beach

Award-Winning Documentary "Blues by the Beach"
Fate brought filmmakers together in Israel in April of 2003. Setting out to make a documentary film about a popular international blues bar by the beach in Tel Aviv called Mike's Place, the filmmakers' peaceful good time was abruptly interrupted when harsh reality struck Mike's Place.

On April 30, 2003, two British Nationals executed a suicide bombing right next door to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv at Mike's Place, while an American producer and his crew were filming what was intended as a lighthearted documentary about the bar staff and their multi-ethnic patrons. The film crew was on the scene and captured the before, during and the aftermath of the incident; this gripping footage has since aired around the world.

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