Nim Shapira, TORN: The Israel–Palestine Poster War on New York City Streets
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live at the Whitby Hotel, guest host Alix Strauss leads a moving conversation with filmmaker Nim Shapira following a screening of his new feature documentary, TORN. Shapira discusses the origins of the film, the shock and grief that followed October 7th, and his desire to bridge divides in an increasingly polarized landscape. He shares personal stories from volunteering with families of hostages, the unraveling of social connections, and the deeper questions that guided the project—about empathy, dehumanization, and the complexity of truth. This intimate talkback offers a rare look into the making of Torn and the emotional and societal fractures it captures.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. We have a special episode today because I did not host this. I was supposed to host |
| 0:50.3 | this conversation, which was a talkback with Nim Shapira after the screening of his |
| 0:54.8 | documentary, Torn. We hosted an On Being Jewish Now event in New York City and screened the movie |
| 1:01.4 | and then had a talk back. I unfortunately was totally sick in bed right after the death of my |
| 1:07.2 | stepfather and I just, my body shut down and I had a body. Anyway, it doesn't matter. |
| 1:11.5 | I couldn't do it. So Alex Strauss, who's one of the contributors to On Being Jewish Now, |
| 1:16.8 | The Anthology, and Stacey Eagle, I knew who was another contributor, both of them are authors |
| 1:22.6 | in their own right. I panicked and asked the two of them, could they host the whole event |
| 1:26.8 | and interview Nim and also Mandana Diani, which will be a different episode. |
| 1:31.4 | And they said yes. |
| 1:32.4 | And so what follows is a conversation, a talk back with Nim Shapiro about his movie Torn with Alex Strauss. |
| 1:39.3 | Enjoy. |
| 1:40.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 1:40.9 | I'm Alex Strauss filling in for Ziby Owens. |
| 1:43.5 | And we've just watched Torn, which was just a dramatic, extraordinary account of what transpired since October 7th, and how New Yorkers handled things and the ripple effect that it had both here in New York and clearly around the world. |
| 2:06.7 | And I'm here with the director and producer Nim Shapira. Did I do that right? |
| 2:12.4 | I was just saying it's after watching this extraordinary documentary was, I mean, there were almost |
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