‘The Mission’ Producer Mike Lerner on Smuggling Phones Into Gaza to Film a Surgeon Fighting Casualties: ‘If They Save One Life, That Is an Act of Resistance’

Oscar-nominated producer and director Mike Lerner was unable to set foot in Gaza to make harrowing doc “The Mission,” which vividly depicts the medical work of British trauma surgeon Dr. Mohammed Tahir during the Israel-Hamas war. Instead, Lerner relied on material shot with cellphones by two of Dr. Tahir’s medical colleagues in Gaza. With roughly […]