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Production
2019

'Til Kingdom Come


  • Maya Zinshtein, Director/Producer
  • Abraham Troen, Producer
  • John Battsek, Producer

About the Project

Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished coal mining town. They donate sacrificially to Israel’s foremost philanthropic organization, because they fervently believe the Jews are crucial to Jesus’s return. This film traces this unusual relationship, from rural Kentucky to the halls of government in Washington, through the moving of the American Embassy in Jerusalem and to the annexation plan of the West-Bank. With unparalleled access, the film exposes a stunning backstory of the Trump and Netanyahu administrations, where financial, political and messianic motivations intersect with the apocalyptic worldview that is insistently reshaping American foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle-East.


Maya Zinshtein, Director/Producer

Maya Zinshtein is an Emmy award winning Israeli documentary filmmaker and journalist. Among numerous prestigious awards, Zinshtein was named best director at the 2016 Jerusalem Film Festival for her acclaimed documentary “Forever Pure” which later went on to win an Emmy award for Outstanding Politics and Government documentary in 2018 (Independent Lens/PBS). For the last ten years she has directed and produced documentaries broadcast on Israeli TV and abroad including by Netflix, BBC, ARTE/ZDF, and PBS, and screened at over 100 festivals around the world. An alumna of Sundance Institute, she teaches at Sam Spiegel film school in Jerusalem and serves on the jury of Israeli and International film festivals.


Abraham "Abie" Troen, Producer

Abie Troen is an award winning Israeli documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. He has lead documentary projects in Israel, Kenya, India, Mexico, and the US, and his work has screened at the American Pavilion at Cannes, TIFF, SXSW, Doc NYC, and online for National Geographic, Vanity Fair, and Conde Nast’s them. He currently resides in Los Angeles and films on both sides of the Atlantic.



John Battsek, Producer

John Battsek runs Passion Pictures, a double Academy Award winning (four times Academy Award nominated) independent production company and one of the most successful and prolific producers of feature documentary films in the international marketplace. In 1999, Battsek conceived and produced Academy Award-winning One day in September and he has since been responsible for multiple high profile feature documentaries. These include: Academy Award nominated Restrppo; The Tillman Story (Winner Best Historical Doc Emmy 2012); Prime Time Emmy winning Manhunt; BAFTA Outstanding Debut Winner The Imposter, and Academy Award and BAFTA winning Searching for the Sugarman. More recently, Battsek produced Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars - and The Final Year, which offered an unprecedented look at the shaping of US foreign policy of former US President Barack Obama’s administration and Studio 54, the real story behind the greatest club of all time which premiered at Sundance in 2018. Battsek has been nominated three times for a PGA Award and was the recipient of 2013 prestigious Grierson Trustees Award for Outstanding Contribution to Documentary.