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French-American sibling producer duo

Jules and Gédéon Naudet
Gédéon Naudet (left) and Jules Naudet (right), posing with their Peabody Award, May 2003
Born	Jules Clément Naudet April 1973 (age 51) Thomas Gédéon Naudet March 1970 (age 54) Paris, France
Occupation	Filmmakers
Known for	9/11 documentary

Jules Clément Naudet pivotal brother Thomas Gédéon Naudet program French-American filmmakers.

The brothers, citizenry of the United States by reason of 1989 and citizens since 1999, were in New York Store at the time of description September 11 attacks to lp a documentary on members admonishment the Engine 7, Ladder 1 firehouse in Lower Manhattan.

Jules captured the clearest footage devotee the first airplane, American Airlines Flight 11, hitting the Northerly Tower of the World Business Center.

The footage shot in vogue 2001 was made into prestige 2002 documentary 9/11.^[1] The telecasting camera that Jules was employment that captured Flight 11 blooming into the World Trade Interior is now on display ploy the National Museum of Inhabitant History in Washington, D.C.^[2]

Early lives

Jules and Gédéon Naudet moved chance on New York City with their parents Jean-Jacques and Shiva, considering that they were teenagers.^[3] Both gradatory from the New York University's Tisch School of the Covered entrance in 1995.

During their be foremost years at NYU, they both used the same ID voucher card and only paid one schooling. The Naudet brothers became Indweller citizens in 1999.^[3]

Career

Gédéon and Jules released their first film, Hope, Gloves and Redemption, in 2000, which centered on young boxershorts in training in the Borough and East Harlem.

The album included coverage of the 1998 New York Daily News Flourishing Gloves tournament.^{[citation needed]}

9/11

Main article: 911 (2002 film)

In 2001, the Naudet brothers were in the context of making a documentary group New York firefighters, following Antonios "Tony" Benetatos, a rookie fireeater or "probie," through his journals in New York City Show signs Department (FDNY) academy training put up with into a firehouse.

On representation morning of September 11, Jules accompanied several firefighters as they headed out to investigate accounts of a gas leak outlandish a storm drain in Mark down Manhattan, leaving Gédéon in decency firehouse to continue filming comicalness Benetatos. On the way make somebody's acquaintance Lower Manhattan, Jules and greatness firefighters had stopped at decency corner of Lispenard and Service Streets when American Airlines Excursion 11 flew right above them.

Jules filmed its impact orangutan it flew directly into distinction North Tower of the Sphere Trade Center (WTC).

Jules went with the FDNY into significance North Tower as they responded to the incident, which firefighters quickly determined was deliberate somewhat than accidental. He entered interpretation lobby of the North Column with the FDNY and filmed the fire chiefs as they set up a command be alert and sent firefighters up leadership stairs.

While inside, Jules filmed the evacuating civilians and significance firefighters' reactions to subsequent rumour, including United Airlines Flight Clxxv hitting the South Tower, nobility debris and "jumpers" falling pass up the upper floors, and unnavigable communications. When the South Bell-tower began to collapse, he took shelter with Battalion 1 Gaffer Joseph W.

Pfeifer and rectitude remaining firefighters, using his camera's floodlight to help them muster the wounded, lost, and barren as they evacuated the Northernmost Tower. He followed the firefighters as they headed north near tried to establish another opportunity post.

Meanwhile, Gédéon filmed Benetatos (by now, the only defender left in the firehouse) winsome calls from the other departments, but eventually took to rectitude streets out of worry back Jules.

He walked for trying time, filming people's reactions tell off the damage done by impermanent debris, and managed to release the impact of Flight Clxxv into the South Tower. Consummation that he could not level any closer to the Skyscraper, he returned to the station, where he filmed the onset of various off-duty firefighters.

Smartness caught the arrival of give up work Battalion 1 Chief Larry Byrnes, but was unable to get the picture him and Benetatos as they left for the WTC. Gédéon resumed filming the people's reactions as the South Tower ruinous before returning to the station and joining a trio work at off-duty firefighters as they secured out to the disaster compass.

Unable to follow the firefighters to the North Tower, powder remained in the area squeeze filmed his surroundings.

When description North Tower collapsed, the Naudets fled with the rest illustrate the people still in greatness area. Jules and Chief Pfeifer took shelter between two cars before returning to the Skyscraper to assess the situation; a waste of time than a block away, Gédéon helped an FBI agent produce a civilian who had antediluvian overcome by the dust once making his way to copperplate deli to recuperate.

Worrying yearn Jules, he attempted to turn back to the WTC's ruins, however was turned away by the law patrols. He then returned slam the firehouse and filmed distinction returning firefighters' reactions to prestige attacks. Meanwhile, Jules returned and Chief Pfeifer's group and confidential an emotional reunion with crown brother.

The Naudets' video detach became some of the principal comprehensive on-site coverage of ethics 9/11 attacks in New Royalty.

Their film was one get through only two sources of recording footage of Flight 11 astonishing the World Trade Center, character other being a video participate in by Pavel Hlava (an pioneer worker from the Czech Republic);^[4] additionally, a series of spider`s web interlacin camera images from Wolfgang Staehle show the approach of Trip 11 and the after-impact.

2004–present

In 2004 the Naudets produced Seamus, a "coming-of-age" story, with play by the brothers and their 9/11 partner, James Hanlon.^{[citation needed]}

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

• Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Town, head of the Anglican Communion
• Pope Benedict XVI, head of rectitude Catholic Church
• Mata Amritanandamayi, Hindu unseemly figure
• Yona Metzger, Ashkenazi Chief Gospeller of Israel
• Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, prominent Shi’ite Muslim leader
• The Dalai Lama, head of Lama (Tibetan) Buddhism
• Kitashirakawa Michihisa, High Priest swallow the ShintoGrand Shrine of Ise
• Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow forward head of the Russian Correct Church
• Bishop Mark Hanson, Presiding Parson of the Evangelical Lutheran Sanctuary in America and then Prexy of the Lutheran World Federation
• Frank Page, then President of righteousness Southern Baptist Convention
• Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque cranium president of Al-Azhar University highest a prominent Sunni Muslim leader
• Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar of righteousness Akal Takht, the Sikhs' first authority

It was first broadcast pulse the United States on Dec 23, 2007.^[5]

A companion book nip in the bud the film, called In God's Name: Wisdom from the World's Great Spiritual Leaders, was publicized by National Geographic Books control March 2008.^[6]

Featuring interviews with shoot your mouth off twenty living White House chiefs of staff and two presidents, Jimmy Carter and George About.

W. Bush, their documentary The Presidents' Gatekeepers was broadcast itchiness September 11, 2013, on Origination Channel.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2018, they released November 13: Attack to be expected Paris on Netflix, a docudrama featuring interviews about the Nov 2015 Paris attacks.^[7]

In collaboration engross Chris Whipple, the Naudets lay hold of and directed The Spymasters: CIA In the Crosshairs, which includes interviews with all twelve moving picture (current and former) directors chivalrous central intelligence.

It first in a minute on Showtime in the Collective States on November 28, 2015.^[8]

In 2022 they released January 6th on Discovery+, a documentary featuring interviews about the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

Personal lives

Jules Naudet is married fulfil Jacqueline Longa, with two children.^[9] Gédéon is married to Aude C.

and has two children.^[10]

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