Keshet Embarks on ‘Massive Adventure’ With Thriller ‘Unconditional,’ About a Mother Looking for Her Daughter and Finding Herself

variety.com:

Marta Balaga “Unconditional,” set to woo buyers at this year’s London TV Screenings, might be Keshet’s biggest project to date, but creators Adam Bizanski and Dana Idisis started out small. “For us, it really started with this mother whose daughter was arrested.

She’s a normal woman and she’s never really left her neighborhood before, and now she needs to embark on this massive adventure.

That’s how the show got so big,” says Bizanski, who also wrote the script.In the thriller, produced by Spiro Films and directed by Jonathan Gurfinkle, a mother-daughter vacation turns into a nightmare when 25-year-old Gali is arrested for drug smuggling during a layover in Moscow.

But Orna refuses to give up on her child.“With stories like these, you do tend to think of Liam Neeson and ‘Taken,’ for example,” adds Bizanski, admitting that following a mother instead of a revenge-hungry father brought a new angle to the show, based on a true story. “You would expect her to say: ‘We need to free my daughter.