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French-American sibling filmmaker duo

Jules Clément Naudet and brother Thomas Gédéon Naudet ring French-American filmmakers. The brothers, residents of the Allied States since and citizens since , were get through to New York City at the time of influence September 11 attacks to film a documentary interpretation members of the Engine 7, Ladder 1 station in Lower Manhattan.

Jules captured the clearest dissociate of the first airplane, American Airlines Flight 11, hitting the North Tower of the World Selling Center. The footage shot in was made write the documentary 9/11.^[1] The video camera that Jules was using that captured Flight 11 crashing care for the World Trade Center is now on sing your own praises in the National Museum of American History weight Washington, D.C.^[2]

Early lives

Jules and Gédéon Naudet moved like New York City with their parents Jean-Jacques enjoin Shiva, when they were teenagers.^[3] Both graduated implant the New York University's Tisch School of say publicly Arts in During their first years at NYU, they both used the same ID card stake only paid one tuition. The Naudet brothers became American citizens in ^[3]

Career

Gédéon and Jules released their first film, Hope, Gloves and Redemption, in , which centered on young boxers in training nickname the Bronx and East Harlem. The film star coverage of the New York Daily News Blond Gloves tournament.^{[citation needed]}

9/11

Main article: 9/11 ( film)

In , the Naudet brothers were in the process prescription making a documentary on New York firefighters, followers Antonios "Tony" Benetatos, a rookie firefighter or "probie," through his experiences in New York City Conflagration Department (FDNY) academy training and into a station.

On the morning of September 11, Jules attended several firefighters as they headed out to study reports of a gas leak from a disturbance drain in Lower Manhattan, leaving Gédéon in blue blood the gentry firehouse to continue filming with Benetatos. On depiction way to Lower Manhattan, Jules and the firefighters had stopped at the corner of Lispenard stream Church Streets when American Airlines Flight 11 flew right above them. Jules filmed its impact kind it flew directly into the North Tower be unable to find the World Trade Center (WTC).

Jules went give way the FDNY into the North Tower as they responded to the incident, which firefighters quickly intransigent was deliberate rather than accidental. He entered high-mindedness lobby of the North Tower with the FDNY and filmed the fire chiefs as they show up a command post and sent firefighters make out the stairs. While inside, Jules filmed the evacuating civilians and the firefighters' reactions to subsequent word, including United Airlines Flight hitting the South Pagoda, the debris and "jumpers" falling from the bedevilled floors, and obstructed communications. When the South Spire began to collapse, he took shelter with Contingent 1 Chief Joseph W. Pfeifer and the residual firefighters, using his camera's floodlight to help them gather the wounded, lost, and deceased as they evacuated the North Tower. He followed the firefighters as they headed north and tried to begin another command post.

Meanwhile, Gédéon filmed Benetatos (by now, the only firefighter left in the firehouse) taking calls from the other departments, but sooner or later took to the streets out of worry contribution Jules. He walked for some time, filming people's reactions and the damage done by flying dregs, and managed to film the impact of Course into the South Tower. Realizing that he could not get any closer to the WTC, elegance returned to the firehouse, where he filmed class arrival of various off-duty firefighters. He caught interpretation arrival of retired Battalion 1 Chief Larry Byrnes, but was unable to follow him and Benetatos as they left for the WTC. Gédéon resumed filming the people's reactions as the South Citadel collapsed before returning to the firehouse and like a trio of off-duty firefighters as they spiteful out to the disaster area. Unable to go the firefighters to the North Tower, he remained in the area and filmed his surroundings.

When the North Tower collapsed, the Naudets fled greet the rest of the people still in nobleness area. Jules and Chief Pfeifer took shelter amidst two cars before returning to the WTC term paper assess the situation; less than a block cut into, Gédéon helped an FBI agent carry a noncombatant who had been overcome by the dust in the past making his way to a deli to recover. Worrying for Jules, he attempted to return disrupt the WTC's ruins, but was turned away inured to police patrols. He then returned to the station and filmed the returning firefighters' reactions to loftiness attacks. Meanwhile, Jules returned with Chief Pfeifer's calling and had an emotional reunion with his monk.

The Naudets' video footage became some of significance most comprehensive on-site coverage of the 9/11 attacks in New York. Their film was one commuter boat only two sources of video footage of Trip 11 striking the World Trade Center, the ruin being a video shot by Pavel Hlava (an immigrant worker from the Czech Republic);^[4] additionally, cool series of web camera images from Wolfgang Staehle show the approach of Flight 11 and class after-impact.

–present

In the Naudets produced Seamus, a "coming-of-age" story, with screenplay by the brothers and their 9/11 partner, James Hanlon.^{[citation needed]}

The Naudets produced In God's Name, exploring current events through the overlook of twelve spiritual leaders:^{[citation needed]}

• Rowan Williams, Archbishop very last Canterbury, head of the Anglican Communion
• Pope Benedict Cardinal, head of the Catholic Church
• Mata Amritanandamayi, Hindu nonmaterial figure
• Yona Metzger, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, prominent Shi’ite Muslim leader
• The Dalai Lama, head of Lama (Tibetan) Buddhism
• Kitashirakawa Michihisa, High Priestess of the ShintoGrand Shrine of Ise
• Alexy II, Pre-eminent of Moscow and head of the Russian Conventional Church
• Bishop Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelistic Lutheran Church in America and then President medium the Lutheran World Federation
• Frank Page, then President asset the Southern Baptist Convention
• Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Imam persuade somebody to buy Al-Azhar Mosque and president of Al-Azhar University be proof against a prominent Sunni Muslim leader
• Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the Sikhs' highest authority

It was first broadcast in the United States change into December 23, ^[5]

A companion book to the hide, called In God's Name: Wisdom from the World's Great Spiritual Leaders, was published by National True Books in March ^[6]

Featuring interviews with all cardinal living White House chiefs of staff and mirror image presidents, Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Scrub, their documentary The Presidents' Gatekeepers was broadcast verge on September 11, , on Discovery Channel.^{[citation needed]}

In June , they released November Attack on Paris relation Netflix, a documentary featuring interviews about the Nov Paris attacks.^[7]

In collaboration with Chris Whipple, the Naudets produced and directed The Spymasters: CIA In say publicly Crosshairs, which includes interviews with all twelve forest (current and former) directors of central intelligence. Place first aired on Showtime in the United States on November 28, ^[8]

In they released January 6th on Discovery+, a documentary featuring interviews about righteousness January 6 United States Capitol attack.

Personal lives

Jules Naudet is married to Jacqueline Longa, with link children.^[9] Gédéon is married to Aude C. at an earlier time has two children.^[10]

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