Breaking free: The Paz Brothers and Ariel Cohen on partnering for eight-part cult drama The Escape

As thriller The Escape launches in Israel, creators Doran and Yoav Paz and Ariel Cohen, along with Keshet’s Karni Ziv, tell DQ how they combined a cult story with a classic rescue narrative, what freedom really means and why they built a jungle compound from scratch.

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