Who's Who at The 2014 JFF

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Beki Probst
Beki Probst is President of the European Film Market. Probst studied law and
journalism, and then joined the newspapers Tercuman and Hayat. In 1960
became manager of the Probst-Kinobetriebe. From 1981 to 1988 Probst was the
Berlin International Film Festivals delegate for Turkey and Greece. In 1985 she
organized a tradeshow for the Locarno International Film Festival. She also
served on Locarnos Selection Board until 1995. From 1988 to 2014 Probst was
Director of the Film Fair of the Berlin International Film Festival. She renamed
the section Film Fair into the European Film Market. Under her management,
the European Film Market was established as one of the biggest and most
important international film fairs. In addition Probst was Artistic Director of
the Geneva Festival Stars de Demain. She has served on the juries of several
international film festivals. In 1992 Probst was decorated as Chevalier des Arts
et des Lettres by the French Cultural Minister.
Makram Khoury
Makram Khoury is a Palestinian-Israeli actor. Khoury was the youngest artist
and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest artistic honor in the
country. He is one of Israels most respected actors, playing in all the major
theatres as well as in films and on television. Among his films: Magic Men
(for which Khoury won Best Actor Award from the Israeli Film Academy
in 2014), The Syrian Bride, and Munich. He studied for three years at the
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England. He later became
involved with the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and the Haifa Municipal Theater,
continuing as a member of the latter for twenty years.
Marin Karmitz
Marin Karmitz is a French businessman whose career has spanned the French
film industry. Karmitz is a director, producer, film distributor, and operator of
a chain of cinemas. He attended film school at IDHEC, renamed La Fmis,
and worked as a director of photography after graduating. He founded MK2,
a production company and movie theater chain, which has specialized in
creating, distributing, and screening independent or auteurist cinema,
including short films. In 2005, he turned over leadership of the MK2 Company
and its theaters to his son, Nathanal. Karmitz has produced over 70 films,
among them Certified Copy, (2010) and Krzysztof Kieslowskis Three Colors
Trilogy. Karmitz is the director of the films Seven Days Somewhere Else, (1969),
Comrades, (1970) and Coup pour coup (1972).
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GUESTS OF HONOR
Clara Mamet
Clara Mamet born in 1994, is an actress and director, known for The Neighbors
(2012), Two-Bit Waltz (2013), and Phil Spector (2013). Mamet wrote, directed
and starred in her first film, Two-Bit Waltz, a semi-autobiographical movie
with William H. Macy, her mother Rebecca Pigeon, and Jared Gilman. Mamet
has also written plays: Paris and The Solvit Kids, the latter of which she co-
wrote with Jack Quaid.
David Mamet
David Mamet is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, essayist,
screenwriter, and film director. Mamet is the author of numerous plays
including Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, November, and
The Anarchist. He has written and directed 10 feature films including Brian
De Palmas The Untouchables, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, House
of Games, Spartan, Redbelt and Homicide, which was nominated for the
Palme dOr at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won a Screenwriter of the
Year award from the London Critics Circle Film Awards. In 1997, his screenplay
for Barry Levinsons political satire Wag the Dog earned Mamet both Oscar
and Golden Globe nominations for Best Screenplay. In addition, Mamet has
written many novels, novellas, and non-fiction books. Recently, his original
film Phil Spector, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, aired on HBO.
Maria Hofsttter
Since the earliest days of Ulrich Seidls work for the cinema, actress Maria
Hofsttter has played an important role. Hofsttters breakthrough came with
her award-winning performance as a hitchhiker in Seidls Dog Days (2001).
She also played in his next film Import Export (2007). Maria Hofsttter has
worked with Austrias leading directors, from Michael Haneke (Time of the
Wolf) to Michael Glawogger (Ant Street). Aside from acting in film and TV,
Maria Hofsttter devotes her time to theatre. In January 2014 Maria Hofsttter
won the Austrian Film Award for her role in PARADISE: Faith (2012).
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Park chan-Wook
Park chan-Wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer,
and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers
in his native country, Park is most known for his films Joint Security Area,
Thirst and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy consisting of
2002s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy in 2003 and Sympathy for Lady
Vengeance in 2005. His films are noted for their immaculate framing and
often brutal subject matter. Chan-Wooks films have been shown in many
festivals around the world, winning awards from the most important festivals
such as Cannes, Venice, and Berlin.
Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Seidl is an Austrian director, author, and producer, and is the director
of numerous award- winning documentaries such as Good News, Animal
Love, and Models. Seidls first fiction feature Dog Days won the Grand Jury
Special Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. In 2003 he founded Ulrich
Seidl Filmproduktion, where he produced Import Export, which premiered in
competition at Cannes. Seidl followed with his Paradise Trilogy: three films
about three women, made in four years. The films celebrated their premiere
in the competitions of the worlds most important film festivals.
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Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze is earnest, calm, thoughtful, artistic, lonely, private and a bunch
of other things that I dont want from a trickster. From the skate-punk
photographer who pretended he was the leader of a group of awful local
break dancers, who co-produces the Jackass movies, who is the creative
director of the gonzo-bro news brand Vice, who was a brilliant actor in Three
Kings before deciding he was too cool for acting, who directed the weirdness
that is Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, who fought bitterly with his
studio to turn Where the Wild Things Are into a kids movie so true to what it
feels like to be a kid that kids didnt see it and who shares a name with the
novelty-song big-band leader of the 1940s - I want a little bit of edge. Hes so
kind that when I complain about how much of a letdown he is, he offers to
stab me. - Joel Stein, TIME.
Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He started his
feature film directing career with Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation
(2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman. After that Jonze started writing his
own screenplays and directed the films: Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
and Her (2013). Jonze is well known for his music video collaborations with
Fatboy Slim, Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Bjrk. He was a co-creator and
executive producer of MTVs Jackass. He is currently the creative director of
VBS.tv. He co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris unningham
and Michel Gondry, and the palm Pictures company. He has been nominated
for four Academy Awards: Best Director for Being John Malkovich, and Best
Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Song (The Moon Song) for
Her. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of
America Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 2014 Academy Award for
Best Original Screenplay for Her.
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Assaf Amir
Producer Assaf Amir established Norma Productions in 1995. Amirs debut
production, Chronicle of a Disapperance (Elia Suleiman, 1996), won the
Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice Film Festival in 1996. Since then, Amir
has produced an array of drama and documentary series, documentary and
feature films, which have been distributed locally and internationally, winning
numerous awards such as five Israeli Academy Awards, four Best Film Awards
at Jerusalem Film Festival, and an array of awards in international festivals,
such as Venice, Berlin, and Tokyo. Norma Productions titles include: Broken
Wings, The Cemetery Club, and Fill the Void. In addition to working as a
producer, Amir serves as the Chairman of the Israeli Producers Association.
Eva Illouz
Eva Illouz President of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, since October
2012, the first woman ever at that position. She is also a Professor of Sociology
at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Illouz is one of the founders of the
Cultural Studies Program in the Hebrew University. She wrote several books,
articles, and various publications over the years, that have been translated
into more than 15 languages and deal with issues of capitalism, mass
communication and their influence on emotions and relationships in the
modern society.
Georges Goldenstern
Georges Goldenstern was the Former General Director of Arte France Cinema
for 15 years, being involved in more than 250 co-produced films. Currently
Goldenstern is the Manager of Cinefondation. Cinefondation was created
by the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 and supports new talents throughout La
Selection (short films school selection in Cannes), La Rsidence (a program in
which twice a year, 6 directors who are selected, write their 1st or 2nd feature
film during four and a half months in Paris), and LAtelier (a framework in
which 15 directors with a script completely written are invited to the Festival
de Cannes to meet the Market).
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Martina Gedeck
Martina Gedeck is one of the most influential and respected actresses in
Germany. Known for her performances as the GDR actress Christa-Maria
Sieland in the German Oscar winner Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel
von Donnersmarck), as well as her role as Ulrike Meinhof in The Baader
Meinhof Complex, (dir. Uli Edel). Gedeck appeared in outstanding films
such as Istvan Szaboss The Door, Robert de Niros The Good Shepherd, and
Sandra Nettelbeckss Mostly Martha. At the 2012 Berlinale she starred with
her brilliant solo-performance in J.R.Plslers film The Wall, which won several
prizes and is seen all over the world. Gedeck has received for her work all in
all 30 international and national prizes.
Serge Toubiana
Serge Toubiana is the General Director of la Cinmathque Franaise since
2003. Toubiana was a journalist and a film critic for Cahiers du cinma, the
editor of the French Review from 1981 to 2000, a producer at the France Culture
Radio Station and an editorial adviser at MK2 between 2001-2002. He had
written several books on cinema, including a biography of Franois Truffaut
with Antoine de Baecque (Gallimard, 1996) and a book on the filmmaker
Amos Gita (Cahiers du cinma, 2003). Among his works as a documentary
Director: Franois Truffaut: Portraits vols (Un Certain regard, Cannes 1993,
co-directed with Michel Pascal), Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer (MK2TV,
2001). Toubiana was the curator of the exhibition Maurice Pialat, Peintre et
Cinaste at La Cinmathque Franaise (2013).
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Arnon Goldfinger
Arnon Goldfinger is an Israeli film director, scriptwriter, and producer, best
known for his films The Flat and The Komediant which gained critical
acclaim in Israel and abroad and won many international prizes in the field of
documentary film. His films have had theatrical releases in cinemas in Israel,
the US, Germany, and Australia, and were screened in dozens of film festivals
as well as broadcast on numerous TV stations around the world. Goldfinger
is a winner of two Israeli Academy Awards for Best Documentary, and was
among the three finalists for the German Academy Film Award for Best
Documentary. Goldfinger has taught at leading Israeli film schools including
Maale School of Television, Film, and the Arts Jerusalem, the Sam Spiegel
Film and Television School, and the Film and Television Department at Tel
Aviv University, where he teaches today.
Karen Cooper
Karen Cooper has been the Director of the Film Forum since 1972, presiding
over the growth of this NYC non-profit cinema from its early years as a 50-
seat screening room to its present operation: a year-round, 3-screen movie
house, presenting new American independents and foreign art features,
and repertory programming, receiving up to 300,000 people annually. Among
directors whose films she has premiered: Werner Herzog, Chris Marker,
Frederick Wiseman, Wim Wenders, Michael Haneke, and Asghar Farhadi.
Cooper has been a member of film festival juries around the world.
Noemi Schory
Producer and Director. Since 2007 she is the Head of the Film Department at
the Arts Faculty Midrasha, Beit Berl College. Independent producer since
1988, producing more than 70 documentaries among them many international
co- productions, such as the internationally acclaimed film A Film
Unfinished, The Settlers, The Inner Tour, Israels Generals -a five part series
on Israeli leadership; 5 films for the documentary series Tkuma. Produced and
partly directed 100 short films for the New Historic Museum of Yad Vashem.
Since 2000 has taught at the Film Department of Tel Aviv University.
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Oeke Hoogendijk
Director. Hoogendijk graduated in 1990 from The Academy of Arts in Utrecht
where she studied Stage Directing. She directed stage shows at numerous
companies between the years 1990 to 1996. In 1997 Hoogendijk studied Television
Documentary at the Media Academy. In 1998 she wrote and co-directed the
documentary film Een Gelukkige Tijd, with Paul Cohen, which was awarded
with the Dutch Academy Award and the Euro Comenius (Vienna). In 2008 she
wrote and directed the documentary Het nieuwe Rijksmuseum.
Scott Foundas
Scott Foundas is the Chief Film Critic for Variety, beforehand Chief Film Critic
for The Village Voice. From 2010-2012, served as Associate Program Director for
the Film Society of Lincoln Center, an editor to Film Comment magazine, and
a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee. Previously, he
was film critic and editor for the L.A. Weekly, where he was named Critic of
the Year by the Los Angeles Press Clubs National Entertainment Journalism
Awards. He has been a special consultant to the Cannes Film Festival and in
2013; a collection of his writings, entitled Time Stopped was published by the
Mar Del Plata Film Festival.
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Alexandros Avranas
Alexandros Avranas, Director and Writer. His film Miss Violence won until now
8 international awards among them the Silver Lion at the 70th Venice Film
Festival for best Director, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, 2 Collateral Awards
and Best Script at Stockholm International Film Festival. His first feature
film Without, won 7 prizes at the Greek State Awards, at the 49th Thessaloniki
International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Cinematography at
the Milano International Film Festival. Avranas made several short films, art
films and videos for theater. Directed in theater: August Strindbergs Little
Catehism (2011) and Gregory Burkes play Gagarin Way (2014).+
Laurence Herszberg
Laurence Herszberg is the General Director of the Forum des Images in Paris,
since June 2002. Herszberg has received a Masters Degree in Political Science
and Public Law in Paris. Previously she was the General Manager of Divento
(Vivendi Universal Group), an internet division specializing in cultural services,
as well as managing the multimedia division of the Runion des Muses
Nationaux. In the past 20 years, Herszberg has had managing roles in
different cultural institutions, notably at the Paris Opera.
Vania Heymann
Vania Heymann is an Israeli artist and director, who often edits, shoots and
does his own Visual effects in his projects. Heymann is considered Israels
upcoming master in visual arts & communications, digital media, video
clips and shorts. Among his projects: Music videos for artists such as: Bob
Dylan, Asaf Avidan, and TYP; videos created during his studies at the Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design; Bekitzur, a TV series composed of two-minute
episodes broadcast as part of Eretz Nehederet; and commercials, including
spots for Pepsi and American Express. Currently he is working with Gon Ben-
Ari on his first long length screenplay of a Hasidic Western in Idish. Heymann
recently won first place in Cannes film festivals digital marketing section for
his interactive clip for Bob Dylans song Like a Rolling Stone.
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Andrzej Kolodynsk
Andrzej Kolodynski is a doctor of film history and a film critic. Since 1994 he
is the editor in chief of KINO monthly (Warsaw). Kolodynski is the author of
several books: In Search of the Film Truth (the theory of documentary film),
Sance with a Vampire (history of horror film), The Heritage of Imagination
(history of SF film), co-author of an encyclopedic publication, and translator
of fiction and film books. Between 1989- 1991 Kolodynski was the artistic
manager of the International Documentary Film Festival in Krakow, and from
2012 he is the vice-rector and lecturer at the Warsaw Film School.
Eithne ONeill
Educated in Ireland, Germany, and France, Eithne ONeill has taught
literature, translation and cinema history at Paris University 13. ONeill is
a writer and film journalist for publications like Nouveau Monde and the
leading French film magazine Positif, where she publishes monthly and is
on the editorial board. She also is the author of the book Stephen Frears,
Rivages/Cinema (1994) and co-authored the book Lubitsch: La Satire
Romansque (1987). Her recent publications include: Les Couturiers franais
Hollywood, 1948-1968, in Les Connections franaises, and Le Thme de
lInitiation dans les anime dHayao Miyazaki, in Rendez-vous avec la peur aux
Editions Cfal, Lige.
Pablo Utin
Born in 1976, Pablo Utin is the chairman of the Israeli Film Critics Association.
Utin teaches cinema at the undergraduate Film and TV Program at Tel Aviv
University and at the Beit Berl Academic College. In addition, Utin has been
working as a film critic since 2003 for different publications (such as Globes,
Israel Today, City Mouse, and Rating-Maariv). He is also on the editorial staff
of the Cinematheque film magazine. Today, he is a regular collaborator for
Srita.net. Utin is the author of The New Israeli Cinema: Conversations with
Filmmakers (2008).
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Jane Wells
Jane Wells is a filmmaker and an activist, founder of 3 Generations, a
nonprofit organization that uses film to share stories of survivors of human
rights abuses from around the world. Director of Tricked, currently on
release, a comprehensive look at the sex trafficking industry in the USA. Wells
produced The Devil Came on Horseback which premiered at Sundance in
2007 and won several awards. She was the executive producer for Right There
(2012) and has produced and directed over 40 short films for 3 Generations,
including the award-winning shorts Native Silence (2013), Lost Hope (2012)
and Im a Victim, Not a Criminal (2010).
Makram Khoury
Makram Khoury is a Palestinian-Israeli actor. Khoury was the youngest artist
and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest artistic honor in the
country. He is one of Israels most respected actors, playing in all the major
theatres as well as in films and on television. Among his films: Magic Men
(for which Khoury won Best Actor Award of the Israeli Film Academy in 2014),
The Syrian Bride, and Munich. He studied for three years at the Mountview
Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England. He later became involved with
the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and the Haifa Municipal Theater, continuing as
a member of the latter for twenty years.
Zeynep zbatur
Producer Zeynep zbatur Atakan Producer. zbatur worked in the TV
advertisement industry from 1986 to 1999, and co-founded her advertisement
production company in 1994. In 1999 she transitioned to the film industry and
began producing international film projects. In 2007, she founded Zeyno Film.
In 2010, zbatur Atakan won the European Film Academys Prix Eurimages
European Co-Production Award, and founded Yapmlab. zbatur Atakan has
been the chairwoman of SE-YAP, the Turkish Guild of Film Producers, since
2011. In 2014, zbatur Atakan was elected Vice President of EWA, the European
Womens Audiovisual Network. Among the films she has produced are:
Winter Sleep, Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, Three Monkeys, and Climates,
all of Nuri Bilge Ceylans films, First Song, and Innowhereland.
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Bruce Goldstein
Bruce Goldstein is the Repertory Programming Director of New Yorks
Film Forum, where he produced four repertory calendars a year and has
singlehandedly created over 400 film festivals. Goldstein is the founder of
Rialto Pictures, a distributor specializing in classic reissues, described as the
gold standard of reissue distributors by the Los Angeles Times. Goldstein is
also known for his showmanship; he has produced live orchestra shows and
has produced events for all of TCMs film festivals and cruises. Among his
many awards are a CableAce and two Telly Awards for a documentary on
dance legends The Nicholas Brothers (which he co-produced and wrote),
and a D.W. Griffith Award for Visionary Film Programming.
Irit Sheleg
Israeli actress, Director, and Fashion Designer. Sheleg studied at the Nissan
Nativ Acting Studio and at the Kibutzim College. Her roles as a theater actress
include, Desdemona at the Cameri national production of Othello. Sheleg
played in many Israeli films such as Abba Ganuv, Sapar Nashim, and Ad Sof
Halaylah. She won an award for her performance in Jacky, directed by Rahel
Esterkin. Sheleg is well known for her role in the highly praised film Fill the
Void (2012), directed by Rama Burshtein, a role that granted her an Ophir
Award for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role, given by the Israeli Academy
of Film and Television.
Ofer Ashkenazi
Ofer Ashkenazi is the Director of the Richard KoebnerMinerva Center
for German History. Ashkenazi is a Post-Doc at the University of California,
Berkeley, as well as at the Albert Einstein Research Center, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. He is the author of the books: Weimar Film and Modern Jewish
Identity (Palgrave-McMillan, 2012) and A Walk into the Night: Reason and
Subjectivity in the Films of the Weimar Republic (Am Oved, Hebrew, 2010). He
teaches History at the Hebrew University, his main research areas are Cultural
History of Modern Germany, German Cinema, and History of the German Jews
in the Modern Era.
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Erez Dvora
Erez Dvora is a well-known lecturer and film critic who has been writing
for YNET since 2007. Dvora received his Masters Degree in Philosophy and
Cinema from the Tel Aviv University. He is a teacher and a lecturer in various
Israeli institutions among them, Tel Aviv University, the Sam Spiegel Film and
Television School in Jerusalem, the Seminar HaKibutzim College, and the
Open University in Israel.
Ishay Kiczales
Ishay Kiczales holds a Bachelors Degree in Philosophy and English Literature
from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a Masters Degree in Cinema.
He has been writing on cinema since 1999, and has published criticism,
interviews, and articles for Israeli newspapers Haaretz, Maariv, Kol Hair, the
Walla and Hair Web Sites, where he also was the editor of cultural topics
and executive editor. Since 2011 he is the film critic for the Israel Hayom
newspaper.
Oron Shamir
Oron Shamir was born in 1985. Since 2006 he is a film critic in Achbar Hair
(City Mouse). Since 2010 Shamir is a writer and an editor in Srita - a film blog
and online magazine. In addition to his work as an editor, writer, and film
critic, Shamir lectures on cinema at the different Cinematheques in Israel as
well the Lev Cinema chains. He has been selected as a judge and screening
committee member for many film festivals in Israel and abroad, such as the
Tel Aviv Student Film Festival, Cinema South Festival, Utopia Film Festival,
and My French Film Festival.
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Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as
a filmmaker, artist, writer, actor, and producer in Germany and the USA.
He released more than eighty short and long films, among them Loos
Ornamental, Schindlers Hauser, Parabeton- Pier Luigi Nervi und Romischer
Beton, and Die Wiese der Sachen, which won The Best Documentary Award
at the Berlin International Film Festival, in 1988. Emigholz oversees numerous
art exhibitions, film retrospectives, lectures, and publications in books and
magazines. He held a professorship in Experimental Filmmaking at the
Universitt der Knste Berlin from 1993 to 2013. He has been a member of the
Academy of the Arts in Berlin since 2012.
Irit Batsry
Irit Batsry is an internationally renowned artist working mainly in video,
installations and photography. Her work has been shown extensively in 35
different countries and is in prestigious institutional collections, such as the
MoMA and the Whitney Museum in NY. She was awarded the prestigious
Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award (2002), has received the Grand Prix
of the Socit Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (1996 and 2001) and her
videotapes, selected for international film and video festivals have received
many prizes including the Grand Prix Locarno 90 and 95. A video retrospective
of her work was organized at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in 2006. Her
work has been broadcast in the US on PBS and in Europe on La Sept, WDR,
and ARTE.
Ruti Direktor
Ruti Direktor Is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Tel Aviv Museum of
Art. Previously, Direktor served as the Chief Curator at the Haifa Museum of
Art and the Curator of the Bezalel Gallery in Tel Aviv. Direktor was an art critic
for several years, writing in many newspapers such as: Maariv, Haeir, Yedioth
Ahronoth and in her own blog- Hatzofa. In addition, Direktor published
several books, was the content editor for a series of 10 episodes about Israeli
Art that was broadcast on Israeli Channel 2, and lecturers about Israeli and
international contemporary art in various places and occasions.
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Andr de Margerie
Andr de Margerie, ARTE. Following a post as Deputy Commercial Adviser
in the French Embassy in Kabul (1976-77), de Margerie worked as a Project
Manager in the Ministry of Environment and in the Public Service Radio
France (1982-86(. After being in charge of corporate sponsoring for the
multimedia company Havas, he worked for the Committee for the Celebration
of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. In 1991, he joined ARTE, as Advisor
to the President and Director of Cultural Development. Since April 2004, he
has been the Director of International Relations of ARTE France. In 2008, he
was named to the International Board of INPUT, for a period of three years.
Since 2011, he is also in charge of the International Relations of ARTE.
Claudia M. Landsberger
Claudia M. Landsberger has been trained as a lawyer. In 1995 she joined
Holland Film as managing director. In 2010 Holland Film merged into EYE
International. In 1997 she co-founded the pan-European Umbrella organization
European Film Promotion (EFP) and has been the president for 12 years and
Vice President for 4 consecutive years. Over the past 12 years Landsberger
has been a member of the selection committee for the Competition Program
of the Berlin International Film Festival. Among other, Landsberger is a
member of the selection committee of the Hamburg Film Fund, a member
of the Cinemart board of the Rotterdam International FF, the Toronto
International FF Advisory committee and has also been a member of the jury
at many international FF. As a script consultant she is still involved in various
European projects and is a member of the European Film Academy.
Diana Elbaum
Diana Elbaum has produced a wide range of award-winning films since
becoming a producer in 1989, initially in advertising and then in motion
pictures. In 2009 she received the Eurimages Award, Prize awarding producers
playing an active role in European co-productions. Elbaum founded
her production company, Entre Chien et Loup in 1989 and 10 years later,
Sbastien Delloye joined forces with her. Entre Chien et Loup has produced
more than 100 films. Elbaum is also the Co-owner of the company Liaison
Cinmatographique, a Paris based Production Company. Her work and
curiosity have taken her around the world several times, enabling her to enroll
cutting-edge writers, directors and talent from all continents such as Sam
Garbarski, Nabil Ben Yadir, Ari Folman and Yuval Adler.at many international
FF. As a script consultant she is still involved in various European projects and
is a member of the European Film Academy.
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Edith Sepp
Edith Sepp is a Film & TV Producer and Director. In the end of the Eighties, Sepp
started off as an Assistant Director, working for six years with international film
crews. After graduating with an MA in film and TV drama from the Sheffield H
University, England, she worked mainly in film industry in the UK and Estonia.
Since 2010 she worked as a film adviser for Estonian Minister of Culture and was in
charge of the film development in Estonia. In 2013 she became, CEO of Estonian
Film Institute. During the years, Sepp was involved as a director and producer in
various productions and worked as a lecturer at the Baltic Film & Media School.
Marie-Pierre VALLE
Marie-Pierre VALLE has a Bachelor of Arts (Literature and History of Art). VALLE was
responsible for TV films acquisitions at TF1, and then was Creative Director at Studio
Canal. Since 2008, she is the Head of Acquisitions at Wild Bunch, working with domestic
and international independent film companies. Wild Bunch, created in 2002, is an
independent Paris-based European film distribution and production services company
that manages a library of more than 1,200 films. Their films have been successful all over
the world and often received awards on numerous important film festivals.
Rmi Burah
Rmi Burah Producer. After working as a banker in the Audiovisual Sector in
London and Paris, Burah joined Haut et Court as a partner, managing director,
and director of the communication agency, working there for 8 years. He joined
ARTE FRANCE CINEMA, the film branch of the European TV channel, in 2001.
He has collaborated in feature films co-productions of well-known filmmakers
such as Wim Wenders, Lars Von Trier, Wong Kar-wai, Michael Haneke and Aki
Kaurismaki. Since 2004 he is also CEO of a finance company that he has initiated
in partnership with SOFICA French tax system. Burah also participated in the
development of animation feature films as an associate producer, in films such as
Persepolis and A Monster in Paris.
Roberto Olla
Roberto Olla is the Executive Director of Eurimages, the European Film Fund based
in Strasbourg. He has a law degree in public law and a Ph.D. in European law
(thesis in audiovisual and media law). Olla joined Eurimages in 2002 as a project
manager dealing mainly with support for feature films. In 2008, he became the
Head of Eurimages. Before this, he was a researcher in media law at the European
University Institute of Florence, worked in the distribution department of the MEDIA
Programme of the European Union and was a legal adviser on audiovisual matters
to the European Commission in Brussels. Olla participates as a legal expert in
several European training initiatives in the film sector and has often been a
panelist on industry seminars and conferences concerning cinema co-productions.
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Andreas Eicher
Andreas Eicher is a German Producer and Director. He is a Producer in IRIS
Productions Deutschland GmbH. Eicher is known for the films Protektor
(2009), Adam & Eva (2003) and Frau2 Sucht HappyEnd (2001). Was a jury
member in various film festivals.
Bec Smith
Bec Smith is an agent in the UTA Independent Film Group where she
formulates strategies for financing and selling independent and international
films for clients of leading talent and literary agency UTA. She is also an agent
in the Motion Picture Literary Department, representing directors and writers.
Smith has worked to finance and sell over 70 movies including: Animal
Kingdom, Frances Ha, Our Idiot Brother and Sleeping Beauty. Prior to her
work at UTA, Smith was head of development in Sydney office of Working Title
Films, and was a producer and film journalist, working at the Australasian
bureau chief of the Hollywood Reporter and was the editor of Inside Film
Magazine in Australia. Smith has served on the Independent Filmmaker
Project (IFPs) Advisory Board, advised at the Sundance Producers Lab, and
routinely attends major international film festivals and markets including
Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Sundance and the AFM.
Christina Bentlage
Christina Bentlage worked between the years1989 to 1995 with the Cologne
Gemini Film Production in Cologne, subsequently moving to the KIENBAUM
Management Consultancy, to work in the department of the public sector.
Since 1996 she has been working for the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, first
as deputy Head of Administration and Finances, then as deputy Head of Film
Funding and since 2010- Head of Film Funding. Aside from this responsibility
she takes part as a member in different juries and selection committees.
DECISION MAKERS & WORKSHOPS
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Elie Meirovitz
Elie Meirovitz entered the world of cinema in 2002, when he founded
def2shoot, a digital post production company. Since then, his company EZ
Films has specialized in the production of art-house films, both of debut and
established directors. The companys films have been selected to Cannes,
Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Locarno and Karlovy Vary film festivals among many
others. In 2010, the company started a department focused on international
sales and distribution to film festivals, quickly establishing itself as a
significant player in this specific market.
Gabriele Brunnenmeyer
Gabriele Brunnenmeyer Having worked as a journalist and film critique,
Brunnenmeyer was acting as an artistic adviser for the Edinburgh based
training for writers and directors- Moonstone International. She was
developing the East-West-Co-production Market Connecting Cottbus at the
Film Festival Cottbus, which she was running as Artistic Director till the end of
2010. Since 2005 she is also working for the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film,
a funding body for first and second films by German young talents, as free
lanced project and script advisor. Furthermore she is working as consultant
for script development, packaging and project presentation for Berlinale and
Sarajevo Talents, Robert Bosch Co-production Prize and others. Currently she
is managing the BLS Sdtirol Alto Adige coproduction event Incontri. Since
Mai 2013 she is acting as Head of Studies for the MEDIA- supported training
program for emerging producers, the Italy based Maia Workshops.
Konstantina Stavrianou
Konstantina Stavrianou Co-Founder of Graal S.A (since 1999), a production
and post-production facility in Greece. Since 2005 she has been working as
a post-production producer focusing on short and feature films as well as
documentaries. She is now overseeing the co-production and post-production
sectors for both Greek and International Productions and is Graals Managing
Director. She is currently the producer of three feature films as well as co-
producing four international projects. She is a Berlinale talent alumni and an
EAVE 2014 participant.
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Michel Zana
Michel Zana Producer & Distributor at Sophie Dulac Productions-Distribution.
Zana worked in Los Angeles and then in France as a production assistant,
casting director and line producer. In 2003, he joined Sophie Dulac, first as
a producer and then in 2004, as a distributor. Among films he produced: El
Cielito by Maria Victoria Menis, The Bands Visit by Eran Kolirin, and Hannah
Arendt by Margarethe Von Trotta. SD Distribution has distributed in France
more than 60 films since its creation, among them: To Take a wife by Ronit
and Shlomi Elkabetz, My father, my lord by David Volach, and The Dust of
Time by Theo Angelopoulos.
Randy Manis
Randy Manis is a Producer and Film Executive with over 15 years of experience
in independent film. Randy executive produced the Oscar nominated Margin
Call (2011), and co-executive produced Oscar nominee The Ides of March
(2011). He also executive produced Lawless (2012) and Kill Your Darlings (2013).
In addition he is in post-production on the suspense thriller Big Sky (2014) and
executive produced the alien-horror film Extra (2014), which just had its world
premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April and sold to IFC. Other recent
credits include the Oscar-nominated Documentary Murderball (2005), the
documentary Chasing Madoff (2010), and the drama Monogamy (2010).
Ricky Tollman
Ricky Tollman is a film producer based in Toronto, Canada, originally from
Johannesburg, South Africa. Tollman most recently co-produced Big Sky
(2014), a feature film directed by Jorge Michel Grau, as well as The Calling
(2014), directed by Jason Stone. His latest venture is The Archive, a distribution
company which is releasing the Sundance hit Obvious Child (2014) as its first
film this summer. Tollman has been involved with a number of projects and
is in active development on a number of projects, two of which he is writing
and co-writing. He also stars in Big Sky.
DECISION MAKERS & WORKSHOPS
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Sonja Heinen
Sonja Heinen After studying languages and economics in Cologne, Sonja
Heinen started her career in film business in 1991 at Filmstiftung NRW in
Duesseldorf. Until 2001 she was Assistant to Executive Director Dieter Kosslick
and especially responsible for International Contacts. During this time she
organised Co-Production Meetings with almost all European countries as
well as international producers delegations and developed the International
Co-Production Market Cologne which took place in 2000 for the first time.
From March 2001 until July 2003 she has been working as Producer and Project
Coordinator for Gemini Film and International West Pictures in Cologne.
Since 2003 she works at the Berlin International Film Festival, as Head of the
Berlinale Co-Production Market, and since August 2004, she is additionally
Programme Manager of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund.
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Alon Gur Arye
Alon Gur Arye wrote and directed the short (40) feature Mossad, winner
of the following awards: Best Director and Best Special Effects (Houston),
Audiences Choice (Toronto), Best Comedy (Atlanta), Best Action Movie (Los
Angeles) and Honorable Mention at the Mockfest Film Festival of Hollywood.
Gur Arye served as chief writer and content developer at Israels Channel
10 commercial TV station (2008-2009), chief writer and content editor for the
Israel Childrens Channel (2009-2011) and director and script editor for the Logi
(Science and Technology for Children) Channel (2011-2012). He has directed
and written scripts for various television series, including the Israeli version of
Sesame Street, and the sitcom Amila (HOT Cable TV).
Arik Rotstein
Arik Rotstein is an Israeli TV writer and director, a graduate of the Sam Spigel
Film School. Among his work, He created Dakot shel Tehila, a drama series
for channel 2, and Yeladot Raot a daily drama for the Israeli music channel.
He wrote and directed the 3rd season of the celebrated drama Florentine.
Over 4 seasons he wrote 18 episodes of the award winning drama Shabatot ve
Hagim. He wrote and directed 11 episodes of the wildly subversive comedy 5
Men and a Wedding for channel 10. His recent works were directing the first
season of the TV drama Another Life, and the pilot for the comedy series Yom
haem (mothers day), which aired last year on Israeli channel 2 (Keshet).
Dina Zvi Riklis
Dina Zvi Riklis is a writer and director, a graduate of the Theatre Department
of Tel Aviv University. Zvi Riklis is the Director of the films: The Fifth Heaven
(2012), Three Mothers (2006) which was nominated for the Wolgin Award for
best Israeli Feature in the JFF 2006 and for best director and screenplay at the
Awards if the Israeli film academy, A story that begins with a snake funeral
(1994) all screened at various international films festivals. Her short films
such as Look Out (1991), Purple Lawns (1998), The Postwoman, (2002) and The
Witch from Melchet Street (2004) were also screened successfully in many
International films festivals.
PARTICIPANTS - DIRECTORS
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Eitan Gafny
Eitan Gafny Director. His feature film debut, Cannon Fodder, is Israels first
zombie film, and was in 30 film festivals around the world, won 7 awards, and
is available in the US under the title Battle of the undead, and soon in South
Korea, Germany, the UK and more. Gafny directed several short films during
his 20s, including independent films and music videos. During film School
at Tel Aviv University, Gafny directed several award winning genre shorts. In
addition, he is a film production teacher, teaching underprivileged and
troubled youth, helping them to find new ways of self-expression.
Elad Keidan
Elad Keidan was born in Haifa, works as a high-school teacher, Alumni of the
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. Anthem (2008) - a short by Keidan
won the first prize in the Cinefondacion- Cannes. His short Vehu Holech
(2012) was nominated for the Golden Pardino in Locarno International Film
Festival. Keidan was part of the Atalier program in Cannes and his first
feature is now in editing.
Erez Tadmor
Erez Tadmor studied film at the Camera Obscura School of Art. His first short
film, Moosh won awards at worldwide festivals. Tadmor and the director
Guy Nattiv directed a few shorts together, which won awards at festivals
worldwide: Strangers and Offside. The two directed a full length version of
their short Strangers, which participated in dozens of festivals. In 2009 Tadmor
directed the long length film A Matter of Size with Sharon Maymon. In 2012 he
directed, again with Nattiv, the film Magic Men starring Makram Khoury who
won the award of best Actor of the Israeli Academy Film Awards, for his role
in this film.
Guilhad Emilio Schenker
Guilhad Emilio Schenker is the director of the film Lavan (white, 2010) that
was screened at over 70 film festivals around the world, won 12 international
awards and was broadcast in 10 countries. Schenker is a MFA Graduate of Tel
Aviv University Faculty of the Arts - Film & TV department and scholar at the
German Bursary program. Former head of programming at G.L.Z Radio, the
most popular radio station in Israel. His previous short films Shum and Schatz
were screened in many film festivals around the world. Madam Yankelovas
fine literature club, supported by the Rabinovitz film fund is his first full
length feature film.
Joseph El Dror
Joseph El Dror is an Israeli actor, writer and director. Between the years 1989-
1994 he was a writer for the Israeli TVs hit satire haHamishiya ha Kamerit.
El Dror was also a writer for the newspaper Ha-IR. Wrote and directed the
short Garger al haRis (1997), with Sivan Arbel. El Dror had written and directed
several screenplays in theatre, and translated classic plays such as Waiting
for Godot and Chekhovs The Seagull.
Miya Hatav
Miya Hatav is a graduate of The Maaleh School of TV, Film & The arts,
Jerusalem. Her graduation film which she wrote edited and directed, Mija
(27) won the Best Fictional Film, Maaleh Graduation Awards 2008 and was
screened as part of the competition at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Panda
Bear Film Festival, Sichuan TV Festival 2009, Di Frost Culture Film Festival
Jerusalem 2010 and Labor Film Festival, Haifa Cinematheque 2010. Her shrot
The Doll (10) was screened at the International student film festival- Tel Aviv.
Naftaly Gliksberg
Naftaly Gliksberg Director & Producer. Among his works: I am Shimon Peres,
a film that tries to decode the image of the ninth President of Israel, through
monologues and Archives (the film is in final editing), Under-lying Anti-
Semitism (2005), an incisive film that examines the contemporary Anti-
Semitism in Europe and the U.S. and Fashion Order (2011), a TV series that
examines historical processes of Israel through fashion. Over the years he
had directed several documentaries. Gliksbergs works participated in more
than forty festivals around the world. Was one of the founders of the Maaleh
School of TV, Film and The Arts and was the Schools first principle.
Nina Menkes
Nina Menkes Menkess work has been shown widely in major international
film festivals including Sundance, Locarno, the Berlinale, Toronto, Rotterdam,
and Cannes as well as at La Cinematheque Franoise, the Whitney Museum
of American Art, and MOMA in New York City. Her many honors include a Los
Angeles Film Critics Association Award for her first feature Magdalena Viraga
(1986), a FIPRESCI Award for MASSAKER at the Berlinale, and the Anat Pirchi
Award for Best Drama at the 2010 Jerusalem International Film Festival for
her first Hebrew language feature, Dissolution (2010). In 2012 retrospectives of
her work were presented in Los Angeles, New York City, and Berlin, Germany.
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Nir Bergman
Nir Bergman is a leading Israeli director and writer for film and TV. Among
his works: Broken Wings (2002) writer & director, distributed worldwide by
Sony Classics, won best Writing and Directing Awards at The Jerusalem
International Film Festival, as well as the Grand prix award for Best Film,
Tokyo International Film Award, the Panorama Audience Award and more. In
Treatment (2004), Drama series, co - creator, writer & director, the series was
sold to HBO and won the Emmy Award. Intimate Grammar (2010, Berlinale
Co-Production Market 2009) writer & director won the Tokyo Grand Prix for best
film and Best Film Award at Jerusalem Film Festival. Yona, writer & director,
(2014) produced by UCM and will soon be released.
Nitzan Gilady
Nitzan Gilady is the director, producer & scriptwriter of the documentary films
Jerusalem Is Proud to Present, In Satmar Custody and The Last Enemy.
His films have received 13 international awards, participated in over 120
international film festivals and broadcast in prestigious TV channels over the
world (among them are: Sundance channel and ZDF-ARTE). The short fiction
drama Queens Up directed by Gilady has participated at the international
Jerusalem Film Festival and received an Audience award at Sedicicorto -
Forli International film festival. Gilady is a graduate of the Academy of arts
Circle in the Square (NY). He has received a grant for the art of cinema 2004
initiated by the Ministry of education, given to outstanding Israeli filmmakers.
Nony Geffen
Nony Geffen started his career as an actor in television films and features,
including its Never Too Late by Ido Fluk (2011). In 2012 Geffen published his
first movie Not in Tel Aviv which he wrote, directed and acted in. Not in Tel
Aviv won the special jury prize (silver leopard prize) in Locarno Film Festival.
Why Elephant is his feature film script in development, granted by the Israel
film fund. Geffen won the main actor in the award winning FIFF - Fribourg
International Film Festival for his role in its Never Too Late.
Ram Nehari
Ram Nehari is a graduate of the Faculty of Film and Television at the Tel Aviv
University. Nehari wrote and directed (with Tamar Marom) the series A Star
Shines Over the Heart (2001); directed and co-wrote the series Love Hurts
(2005), winner of two Israeli Film and Television Academy Awards, and of the
Haifa Film Festival (2004); directed and co-wrote the series Imale (2006-
2007), winner of five Israeli Film and Television Academy Awards, Director of
the series Mekimi (2013), based on a book by Noa Yaron-Dayan. The series
participated in the Series Mania Festival at Forum des Images, Paris, and
at the Input Television Conference (2014) in Helsinki; Script editor on Dana
Modans series Ananda, airing on Hot (first and second seasons).
Tal Goldberg
Tal Goldberg is a professional Israeli screenwriter and director. He has written
and directed the 90 minutes action-comedy feature film OMG, Im a Robot!
(2014) and off screen, a TV comedy. Goldberg has worked with many Israeli
A-list actors such as Tzahi Grad, Dror Keren, Michael Mushonov, and others.
Off screen was bought by Hot VOD and later was adapted as a web-series
by Walla. The show has won many awards in television and web series
festivals. The feature film OMG, Im a Robot! is currently in Post production
stages. These days Tal works as a director and screenwriter at Srutonim, a
video production company.
Yuval Granot
Yuval Granot Director & writer. His film Julia Mia, which he wrote, directed and
produced, won the Haifa Film Festival, 2007. Granot wrote & directed several
TV series such as The good guys (1999) and Reds (1998). Now days, Granot is
raising funds for Karny, a historic, Ironic comedy which is based on the true
story of his father, Shmuel Katz, who was an Irgun headquarters member
and advisor to Prime Minister Menahem Begin.
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PARTICIPANTS - PRODUCERS
Chilik Michaeli
Chilik Michaeli UCM. Established UCM in 2006 together with Avraham
Pirchi & Tami Leon. They have been working with leading companies in the
entertainment world in Israel and abroad. UCM films have run the major
international film festival circuits, reached a worldwide audience and sold
internationally. Among its recent films: Yona (2014), Director: Nir Bergman,
Dancing Arabs (2014), Director: Eran Riklis, Big Bad Wolves (2013), Directors:
Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales, The Matchmaker (2010), Director: Avi
Nesher and A Matter of Size (2009), Directors: Sharon Maymon & Erez Tadmor.
Eitan Mansuri
Eitan Mansuri Spiro Films. Among his selected works as a producer: The
Congress, Director: Ari Folman, [opening film- Quinzaine des Ralisateurs,
Cannes], The Cutoff Man, and Director: Idan Hubel [official selection-Venice
Orizzonti] and as an Associate Producer- The Wanderer, Director: Avishai
Sivan [official selection- Quinzaine des Ralisateurs, Cannes]. Spiro Films
is an Israeli based Production Company dedicated to producing artistically
ambitious films and aims to promote expressive voices of new emerging
generation of Israeli writers and directors.
Elad Peleg
Elad Peleg Daroma Productions. The Company, founded in 2009, already has
nine projects for cinema and T.V. Two already completed and 7 more in
advanced production stages. Selected Films: Red Leaves - Feature Drama,
80 min, Director: Bazi Getta. In Post-Production, Funding: Israel Film Fund,
Avi-Chai foundation, Gesher film-fund, The Israeli cable and satellite council.
Mossad! - Feature Comedy, 100 min, Director: Alon Gur Arye. Cinema South
festival, Sderot, 2014, Pre-Production, Funding: Jerusalem film and television
fund in co-production with United King.
Eran Riklis
Eran Riklis, ERP. Eran Riklis has been active in the movie world since 1975, as a
Director and Producer. Led by one of Israels most acclaimed film makers, ERP
produced The Syrian Bride (2004), Lemon Tree (2008), Zaytoun (2012), Vulcan
Junction (1999), Cup Final (1991), The Truck (TV series, 2002), Until Tomorrow
Comes (2004) and co-produced Three Mothers (2006), Burning Muki (2009)
and more. ERP focuses on international co-productions with an emphasis on
stories that travel and can reach a wide, global audience.
Haggai Arad
Haggai Arad Daroma Productions. The Company, founded in 2009, already
has nine projects for cinema and T.V. Two already completed and 7 more in
advanced production stages. Selected Films: Red Leaves - Feature Drama,
80 min, Director: Bazi Getta. In Post-Production, Funding: Israel Film Fund,
Avi-Chai foundation, Gesher film-fund, The Israeli cable and satellite council.
Mossad! - Feature Comedy, 100 min, Director: Alon Gur Arye. Cinema South
festival, Sderot, 2014, Pre-Production, Funding: Jerusalem film and television
fund in co-production with United King.
Itai Tamir
Itai Tamir Laila Films. Laila Films was established as a boutique production
company for high quality independent cinema intended for emerging Israeli
and international filmmakers. Since its founding in 2010 Laila Film produced:
Policeman (2011), directed by Nadav Lapid, Not in Tel Aviv (2012) directed
by Nony Geffen, Sharqiya (2012) directed by Ami Livne, Alice (2012) directed
by Dana Goldberg, Closed Season (2012), directed by Franziska Schlotterer,
Arabani (2013), directed by Adi Aduan; Laila also produced the documentary
film Translation, directed by Nurith Aviv. Itay Tamir Produced many
appreciated films, before the establishment of Laila Films, such as Or (2004)
and Live and Become (2005).
Liran Atzmor
Liran Atzmor Atzmor Productions. Former managing director and senior
producer at Belfilms, Israel. Atzmor has produced programs for all major
Israeli broadcasters as well as broadcasters and distributors in North America
and Europe including the BBC, ZDF-Arte, The History Channel, and many
more. Credits include: The Yad Vashem Films, The Inner Tour (2001) and My
Stills (2003). Atzmor also served as senior commissioning editor for Israels
documentary channel (Channel 8) and produced The Law in These Parts
(2011), by Raanan Alexandrowicz winner of Sundance World Cinema Best
Documentary and Peabody 2013.
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Marek Rozenbaum
Marek Rozenbaum Transfax Film Productions. Transfax Film Productions
was established in 1988 and produced over 50 feature films and international
co-productions, among them award-winning films that have been received
worldwide, such as Hitganvut Yehidim (2010), Hatuna Meuheret (2001), and
Or, (2004). Rozenbaum held for 10 years the position of Chairman of the Israeli
Academy for Cinema and Television, 6 years the position of Chairman of
Israels Film and Television Producers Association, and today is a Member of
its Board, as well as member of the board of the European Film Academy.
Ossie Kishlanski
Ossie Kishlanski Kishlanski Productions. Kishlanski Productions was founded
in 2014 as an outlet for Kishlanskis creative ventures. She studied producing
at Chapman University in California and produced five high-budgets, award
winning student films. Kishlanskis experiences vary from the various stages
of production to development and the business side of the film industry. She
worked with Grammy winning directors and interned with award winning
screenwriter Steve Zailian and The Gersh Agencys literary department. Later
she worked for TV producer and manager Rob Golenberg at Scripted World.
These days Kishlanski is busy developing two comedies in Israel.
Shemi Shoenfeld & Amitan Menelzon
Shemi Shoenfeld & Amitan Menelzon Comeback Films. Shoenfeld & Menelzon
both are industry veterans developing & producing feature films & TV since the
90S. Shoenfeld is a Producer of Television Movies, Documentaries and Long
Length Features. Among his films: Magic Men, Starring Makram Khoury who
won the award of Best Actor of the Israeli Film Academy for his role in the
film, Exodus: The True Story (2009) and Melah haarets (2006).
Tony Copti
Tony Copti FRESCO. Tony Copti and his brother Jiries joined forces in 2011 and
created FRESCO a company that provides production services and finance
structuring to films with the highest line production standards. FRESCO was
the executive production company of the feature film The Attack (2012), by
Ziad Doueiri and Girrafada (2013), by Rani Massalha. FRESCO is developing the
following projects to be shot later in 2014 and 2015: One on One, documentary
by Zahi Grad Land Of The Little People, by Yaniv Berman, Minoraur, by Nina
Menkes, The Stranger, by Yosi Artzi Personal Affairs, by Maha Assal and
Always EIB, by Scandar Copti.
Yifat Prestelnik
Yifat Prestelnik YPF. Yifat Prestelnik Films is a boutique production company
since 2003 that specializes in feature films & television series. YPF has unique
and long terms relationships with its directors and screenwriters and has the
ability to turn a rough idea into a final product. Among its features Three
Mothers (2006), The Fifth Heaven (2012), and TV series: Weeping Suzanne
(2009), Mekimi, All participated in International festivals and won prizes.
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INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKERS & PROFESSIONALS
Aaron Wilson
Aaron Wilson is an Australian director. His short films have appeared at more
than 100 festivals and acquired numerous international sales and awards.
His films include Rendezvous, Ten Feet Tall, Wind (Feng), Leap Year, and
Ahmads Garden. His film Canopy had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto
International Film Festival and has been screened in competition at various
festivals such as at Busan International Film Festival, Rotterdam International
Film Festival, and Abu Dhabi Film Festival (where it was honored with the
Special Jury Mention in the New Horizons section) and had been sold for
cinematic release in some countries such as the UK. In addition to his film
work, Aaron works as a television commercials director at Airbag Productions.
Agns Hanna Goldman
Agns Hanna Goldman is the General Manager and owner of Personality
Agency. Created in 1983, Personality is an independent agency that specializes
in all culture related events (cinema & television) and lux brands, while
staying true to its DNA human values. The agency deals with international
affairs, public relations, consulting, lobbying, events, talent tours, taking
care of talent (850 talents ) premieres, master classes, fans, events, tributes,
exhibitions, brand and culture.
Alejandro Fernndez Almendras
Born in 1971, Chilean director Alejandro Fernndez Almendras first studied
journalism at the University of Chile and later, filmmaking in New York. He
worked as a film critic and photographer, and currently teaches filmmaking
in several Chilean Universities. Almendras had been making short films
since 2003. To Kill a Man is his third feature film after Huacho (Semaine
de la critique, 2009 Festival de Cannes) and Sentados frente al fuego (San
Sebastian Film Festival, 2011).
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Alexandre Arcady
Actor, Filmmaker, Producer, Author. Arcady has dedicated his life to theater
and cinema. He began performing on stage, first as an actor, after as a
director, and then was appointed Director of the Suresnes Theater. In 1977, he
produced Diabolo Menthe, before starting in 1979 with his first feature film
that he produced, wrote and directed, entitled film LE COUP DE SIROCCO, a
bittersweet chronicle of the Algerias returnees from Algeria in 1962. Then, he
released two other films on the same theme, Le Grand Pardon & Le Grand
Carnival, which form a successful trilogy. Among his works: Hold-up, Dernier
Ete a Tanger, LUnion Sacree, Dis Moi Oui , Pour Sacha, K, and Mariage
Mixte, Tu Peux Garder un Secret?, and Ce Que Le Jour Doit a La Nuit.
ALEXANDROS AVRANAS
ALEXANDROS AVRANAS studied at U.d.K Berlin. His first feature film Without,
won 7 prizes at the Greek State Award at the 49th Thessaloniki International
Film Festival and was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Milano
International Film Festival. His film, Miss Violence, won the Silver Lion for Best
Director, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, and 2 Collateral Awards at the 70th Venice
Film Festival. Until now, Miss Violence has won 8 international awards among
them Best Script at the Stockholm International Film Festival. Alexandros
Avranas has made several short films, art films, and videos for theater.
Alice Rohrwacher
Alice Rohrwacher has worked as a performing musician for theatre
productions and has edited and directed a number of documentaries. Her
first fiction feature Corpo Celeste premiered at Cannes (Quinzaine des
realisatuers) in 2011, and was then selected for Sundance, New York, London,
Rio, and Tokyo film festivals, later to be released in the US, UK, and France.
Corpo Celeste was also screened as part of the Religion Today program at
the 2011 Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Her
second film The Wonders (Le Meraviglie) was screened at the 2014 Cannes
Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize.
Amelia Green-Dove
Amelia Green-Dove is a journalist and filmmaker. Before joining Propeller
Films she was a field producer for filmmaker Michael Moores Academy
Award-nominated feature documentary Sicko. Prior she was an associate
producer for Bill Moyers and David Brancaccio on the PBS newsmagazine
Now with Bill Moyers and later Now. A native of Santa Monica, California,
and graduate of Hampshire College, Green-Dove has worked internationally,
including as a researcher at the BBCs Open University division in London. In
2007, Green-Dove oversaw the launch and development of an entertainment
website. Since 2008, she has worked with director Edet Belzberg, most recently
on Belzbergs award winning documentary The Recruiter . In addition to
being a producer of Watchers of the Sky she is the Audience Engagement
Campaign Manager for the films outreach.
Andrei Gruzsniczki
Director. A graduate of the Romanian Theatre and Drama University,
Gruzsniczki directed The Other Irene (2009) which was screened at dozens of
film festivals and won several awards such as Best Debut Feature award at
the SEE Festival in Los Angeles. Before his debut in feature film, he was the
second director for two films by Lucian Pintilie and directed and wrote short
films. He wrote and directed the feature film, Quod Erat Demonstrandum
awarded with the Special Jury Prize at the Rome Film Festival in 2013, the
Grand Golden Taiga Prize at the International Debut Film Festival Spirit of Fire
held in Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia in March 2014.
Anja Marquardt
Writer-director Anja Marquardt was born and raised in Berlin when the
city was still divided in two. Her personal and national background have
strongly shaped her artistic interests. Based in Berlin and NYC, Anja worked
in production and development and as commissioning editor for European
broadcaster, ARTE. An alumna of NYUs Graduate Film Program, Anja was
an IFP Marcie Bloom Fellow and Berlinale Talent for the Script Station
Development Lab 2010. Her first feature film, Shes Lost Control world
premiered at Berlinale 2014 where it won the CICAE Award.
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Annette Insdorf
Annette Insdorf is Director of Undergraduate Film Studies at Columbia
University, and a Professor in the Graduate Film Division of the School of the
Arts (for which she was Chair from 1990-1995). Insdorf is the author of Double
Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois
Truffaut, a Study of the French Directors work; and the landmark study,
Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust. Her most recent book is Philip
Kaufman which was highly received. Her commentaries can be heard on
many DVDs, and she has interviewed over one hundred film celebrities in
her popular Reel Pieces series at Manhattans 92nd Street Y. She has been a
juror at many film festivals around the world.
Carole Zabar
Carole Zabar has been an active supporter of Israeli documentary filmmaking
over the last decade and is the founder of the Other Israel Film Festival and
Fund. As part of her support for Israeli cultural, social and political causes,
Zabar serves as board member of The JCC in Manhattan and the New Israel
Fund, among others. She graduated with degrees in Philosophy and English
from the Hebrew University. For the last 30 years she has been active in many
Israeli non-profit organizations related to civil rights. She was a professional
photographer for ten years, then went to Law school and worked for the City
Law Department of New York in the Family Court Division.
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman is a Brussels-born and now Paris-based filmmaker, writer,
actor, producer and composer, and one of the most important European
directors of her generation. Akerman started making her own films in the
late 60s and gave a new meaning to the term independent film as an
embodiment of pure independence and creativity. Akerman has made over 40
works from 35mm features to video essays to experimental documentaries.
In 1995 Akerman began experimenting with video installations and exhibiting
her work in museums and galleries as well as in art-house theaters including
Venice Art Biennale and Kassel Documenta.
Craig A. Emanuel
Craig A. Emanuel is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Loeb & Loeb
LLP and chair of its Entertainment Department. He represents high level
writers, directors, actors, producers and production companies in all aspects
of motion picture and television transactions, both in the studio and
independent levels. Emanuel is also involved in the negotiation of strategic
distribution relationships with major studios, including the licensing of digital
media content. Emanuel has a background in representing European banks
in film finance transactions and has experience in the structuring and sale of
international co-productions.
David Bernstein
David Bernstein is a long-standing supporter of the Jerusalem Foundation
and the Cinematheque, as was his father Sidney Bernstein before him. He is a
trustee of the New Israel Fund in the UK, and is also on the NIF International
Council. He is a member of the Middle-East North Africa Advisory Council of
Human Rights Watch. Bernstein is a lawyer by background, but now sits on
the board of a private investment company based in London.
David Kustow
David Kustow has been a lawyer for more than 35 years with an absolute
passion for film. Kustow was appointed as governor of the British Film
Institute and subsequently became deputy chairman under the late Anthony
Minghella. Kustow then became chairman of UK Jewish Film, a role he held
for six years and has recently been appointed as one of the five trustees of the
BFI Trust. He gave up his legal career four years ago in order to make films.
He is now developing two feature film projects, as a producer. He was the
originator and sponsor of the UK/Israel Bilateral Film Co-Production Treaty
which came into force in 2011. David was appointed an OBE in the 2013 New
Years Honours List for services to UK film and for UK/Israel film co-operation.
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DIETRICH BRGGEMANN
Director. Attended the Konrad Wolf Babelsberg Film School in Potsdam, has
directed four full- length features, a couple of shorts, and numerous music
videos. His films include: Move (2012), Run if You Can (2010), and Stations
of the Cross (2014). His films have been screened at numerous film festivals
worldwide and have won various prizes, among them the Silver Bear for Best
Screenplay, and the Ecumenical Jury Prize, at the Berlinale 2014 for Kreuzweg
(Stations of the Cross).
Dr. Toby Haggith
Dr. Toby Haggith is a historian who joined IWMs Film Department in 1988.
In 2000 he became Head of non- commercial access to the film and video
collection and responsible for devising the daily Public Film Show programme.
He is now a Senior Curator in the Department of Research and is an adviser
and champion for IWMs Short Film Festival, which has been running since he
set it up in November 2001. He has a PhD in Social History from the University
of Warwick and has published various essays on film and history. He is the
co- editor, with Joanna Newman, of Holocaust and the Moving Image:
Representations in Film and Television Since 1933 (Wallflower Press, 2005),
which is based on a conference held at the Museum in April 2001. Between
2010 and 2012, with David Walsh he led the project to restore the film The
Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks (1917).
Edet Belzberg
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, Edet Belzberg, is known for elegant,
in-depth, and powerful storytelling. Her debut feature, Children Underground,
was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Sundance Film Festivals
Jury Prize, the International Documentary Associations Documentary Award,
and the Gotham Awards Documentary Achievement Prize, among many
others. Her film The Recruiter had its world premiere at the Sundance Film
Festival and aired on HBO. It was awarded a DuPont-Columbia University
Award for journalism. Watchers of the Sky, her most recent film, had its world
premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury
Prize for the Use of Animation and the US Documentary Editing Award. The
MacArthur Foundation, in selecting Belzberg as a Fellow, praised her for her
graceful and insightful films.
Edward Berger
Edward Berger graduated in directing from the NYU Film School. After gaining
experience with the US independent production company Good Machine,
working on films by directors including Ang Lee and Todd Haynes, he wrote
and directed his first feature, Gomez, in 1998. He also worked as a writer and
director on a number of episodes of the award-winning TV series KDD. In
2012 he won the prestigious Grimme Award for his television film Ein guter
Sommer (A Good Summer). He has directed the television films Mutter mus
weg and Windland; his film Jack was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at
the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.
Eric Friedler
Writer and Director. Born in Australia, Eric Friedler has been working with
Norddeutscher Rundfunk since 2002. As a TV editor he has supervised
acclaimed documentaries, television movies, and feature films. As a
director he has been awarded national and international awards including
several New York Festival Awards, German TV awards, Grimme Awards, and
the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Awards. Among his works Ein deutscher
Boxer, Aghet- Ein Volkermord, and Der Sturz- Honeckers Ende. In 2011 he
became head of the NDR special projects department for docu-dramas and
documentaries.
Esther van Messel
Esther van Messel holds a BA in Film & TV production and History from the
University of Tel Aviv. In 1990, she joined Warner Bros Israel and became
Head of Distribution. She was also head of Co-Production and Sales for
an independent production company in Zurich. Since 1998, Van Messel has
been running her own company, First Hand Films, in Zurich and Berlin. FHF
represents close to 300 hand-picked films and 200 producers from all over the
world and acts as executive producer for selected projects. FHF is present at
major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin & Venice. Its very first production went
on to receive the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Since then, most First
Hand Films have won awards: Emmy, Prix Europa, numerous IDFA awards
and more.
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Frederic Tcheng
Director, Editor, and Writer. Tcheng graduated from Columbia University Film
School in New York. Tcheng is the director of the documentary film Dior and
I, which was part of the Official Competition and was screened at the Tribeca
Film Festival in 2014 as well as the Seattle International Film Festival 2014. He
edited and co-directed the documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to
Travel, as well as being the co- editor of Valentino: The last Emperor (2008).

Georges Gachot
Georges Gachot, a French and Swiss national, has been directing music
documentaries since 1990. Gachot left Paris at the age of 18 for Switzerland
where he simultaneously studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology Zurich. In 1985, he worked for the music label Naxos
visualizing whole music works from the great classical music repertoire. In
1996, he began to produce his own films some of which were distributed also in
cinemas. He received the prestigious Prix Italia for his portrait of Argentinean
pianist Martha Argerich in 2002 Evening Talks. In 2005, he tackled for the
first time a subject other than classical music in his film on Brazilian singer
Maria Bethnia Musica perfume. His love for Brazilian music brought him
to produce 2010 Rio Sonata an impressionistic musical portrait of singer Nana
Caymmi and he is preparing a new one to complete his Brazilian trilogy.
George Griffin
Animator, Independent Filmmaker, Writer, Flipbook Artist, and Film Producer.
Since 1969, he has made over 30 personal films, from 1 to 30 minutes long
(collected as Griffiti Archive). The latest, The Bather, was shown at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival and Film Forum. He directed commercials at Colossal
Pictures; line-produced lHistoire du Soldat for Great Performances, and
continues to produce commissioned animation and public service spots. He
has taught at Harvard, Pratt, Parsons, and elsewhere; has exhibited in and
juried numerous international film festivals; has written articles and reviews
for Cartoons, EnterText, and Animation: an Interdisciplinary Journal, and
other journals. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for
the Arts, his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Heinz Emigholz
Born in 1948 near Bremen in Germany, Heinz Emigholz began filmmaking
in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer, actor, and
producer in Germany and the USA. He released more than eighty short and
full-length films which are all still in distribution, such as Die Wiese der
Sachen which won the Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival
in 1988 . His work includes numerous art exhibitions, film retrospectives,
lectures, and publications in books and magazines. He held a professorship
in Experimental Filmmaking at the Universitt der Knste Berlin from 1993 to
2013. He has been a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin since 2012.
Huseyin Karabey
Turkish Director and Producer. Karabey has pursued film directing since 1996.
He graduated from the Film & Television Department, Fine Arts School of
the Marmara University in 2001. His short films, documentaries, and first long
feature Gitmek - My Marlon and Brando (Best Director Tribeca FF 2008)
has been shown at many important festivals and has received various awards.
He was Artistic Director in the production of the Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Project, in which 6 internationally-renowned directors shot a short segment
about the city. Karabeys second Feature film, Come to my Voice participated
in the Cannes Atelier and premiered at the Berlinale 2014.
Ido Mizrahy
Director. Ido Mizrahys first feature-length narrative, the award-winning
Things That Hang From Trees, premiered at the 2006 New York Directors /
New Films Festival, and had its Israeli premiere at the 2006 Jerusalem Film
Festival. It was recently selected to be part of MOMAs permanent collection.
In 2011, Mizrahy was a co-director and co-writer on Beyonce: Year of 4, which
debuted on MTV and VH1. In 2013, Mizrahys first feature-length documentary
film, the critically acclaimed Patrolman P, premiered at DOC NYC. Mizrahy
is currently working on a feature-length documentary about the most gored
matador in history.
Isaac Zablocki
Isaac Zablocki is the Director of the Israel Film Center at the JCC in Manhattan.
He was born in New York, and grew up in Israel. Zablocki attended film school
at Columbia University and went on to work at Miramax films. He produced and
directed a feature film entitled Reality Lost and developed film educational
programs for the Board of Education. Since 2004 Zablocki has been the Director
of Film Programs at the JCC in Manhattan. He programs over seven film
festivals a year including The Other Israel Film Festival and Reelabilites: The NY
Disabilities Film Festival. Isaac also teaches film in various institutions.
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Ivo Felt
Ivo Felt co-founded the production company Allfilm in 1995, which is a
member of the Association of Estonian Film Producers and IQ International
Quorum of Motion Picture Producers. Felt has been working as a sound
designer on several feature and documentary films, television productions,
and television advertisements. In 2006, Ivo also started focusing on film
production and is currently working as a film producer in Allfilm. Besides his
daily work, he teaches at Tallinn Universitys Baltic Film and Media School and
the Estonian Academy of Arts. Ivo is the Chairman of the Board at Allfilm.
Karen Shakhnazarov
Film Director, Script Writer, Producer, Prose Writer. Since 1998, Shakhnazarov
has served as the General Director of Mosfilm Cinema Concern, previously the
Art Director and Chairman of the Board of Courier Studio of Mosfilm Cinema
Concern. Under his management as General Director, the principal film studio
of Russia overcame the deep crisis of the nineties and grew into Europes
largest, unique film production complex with the highest world standards.
Most of Russian film, TV, and video content are produced at the facilities of
Mosfilm. The films directed by Shakhnazarov have been presented at many
prestigious international film festivals and have won over twenty awards in
various nominations. His films Ward No. 6 and White Tiger were the official
Russian entries for the AMPAS Oscar Awards Competition in the Best Foreign
Language Film category.
Leah Meyerhoff
Leah Meyerhoffs debut feature film I Believe in Unicorns premiered in the
narrative competition of SXSW 2014 and is currently traveling the film festival
circuit. Her previous short films have screened in over 200 film festivals, won
a dozen awards, and aired on several cable networks. Her short film Twitch
was shortlisted for a Student Academy Award, won a Slamdance Grand
Jury Prize, and was picked up by IFC, PBS, Hulu, and Skandinavia TV. She
directed a commercial for Converse and music videos for Triple Creme, Joan
as Police Woman and Luff, which aired on LOGO and MTV. Leah is a Tribeca
Film Institute mentor and the founder of Film Fatales, a female filmmaker
collective based in New York. She is a Brown University graduate and Deans
Fellow in Graduate Film at NYU.
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Lembit Ulfsak
Lembit Ulfsak is a veteran of Estonian theatre and film. He studied in the
Drama Faculty of the Tallinn Conservatoire from which he graduated in 1970.
In 1969-1978 he worked in the Noorsooteater Theatre, in 1985-1994 he worked
in the Tallinnfilm as a film actor and director. Among his films in which he
played profound roles are: Brothers: The Return (2006), Good Hands (2001),
and Family Business (2003). Between 1978-1985 and from 1994 to the present
day he has been working as an actor in the Estonian Drama Theatre (Eesti
Draamateater) and is also continuing his work in the film industry.
Leslie Siegel
Leslie Siege,l Creative Producer, is an acclaimed set designer and stylist
for print, video and web media and a Brooklyn-based visual artist who
presented her work in numerous exhibitions. Her award-winning short film
The Apology (1997) was distributed by Apollo Cinema. In addition to her role
as creative producer on Famous Nathan (2014), she has served as music
curator, commissioning work by Ergo Phizmiz, a UK composer and multi-
instrumentalist.
Lloyd Handwerker
Lloyd Handwerker is a Director and Cinematographer, based in New York.
Handwerkers film Famous Nathan was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival
and is a 30-year-project that Handwerker worked on both as director as well
as cinematographer. He is also known for his work as a cinematographer of
the films Falling (2005), Tar (1997) and Santo Domingo Blues: Los Tigueres de
la Bachata.
Madeleine Molyneaux
Madeleine Molyneaux is an independent creative producer based in New York
and Los Angeles. Through her company Picture Palace Pictures, she develops,
produces, and represents films, videos, visual art projects and trans-media
works that often defy easy categorization and co-exist within experimental
film and contemporary art contexts, as well as director-driven genre narrative.
Her long association with filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, has yielded five
award-winning features, numerous shorts, and solo museum exhibitions at the
Whitney Museum and numerous art institutions. She is the US Programmer for
the Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal, now in its 43rd edition.
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Marcelo Gomes
Director. Gomess first feature, Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures, premiered
at Un Certain Regard, Cannes, in 2005 and received Frances Award of
the Ministry of Education. It has been awarded with more than 50 prizes
worldwide. At the 2009 Venice International Film Festival he presented, I
Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love you, co-directed
with Karim Ainouz. His film Once upon a Time Veronica premiered at the
Toronto International Film Festival in 2012. It has been awarded several prizes
at film festivals including San Sebastian, Brasilia, Amazonas, Havana, and
Guadalajara. The Man of the Crowd, co-directed with Cao Guimares, was
screened at the Panorama Section of Berlin Film Festival in 2014.
Marine Goulois
Distributor- Films Du Losange. Les Films du Losange was founded in 1962,
at the height of the new wave, by Barbet Schroeder and ric Rohmer. Les
films du Losange has worked and supported some of the most acclaimed
filmmakers from all over the world. Since 1975, it has shown the same passion
and perseverance in expanding from production into distribution and
international sales. With a catalogue of over 80 movies, featuring directors
such as ric Rohmer, Barbet Schroeder, and Roger Planchon, alongside new
movies by Michael Haneke, Jacques Rivette, Otar Ioseliani and others, Les
Films du Losange continues to defend a particular conception of quality
filmmaking - stimulating, relevant, and audacious.
Mark Ethan Toporek
Mark Ethan Toporek, a member of the Actors Studio in New York, has appeared
in films including The Confession (with Ben Kingsley and Alec Baldwin), The
Secret Lives of Dentists (with Campbell Scott and Hope Davis), and Lesser
Prophets (with John Turturro). His stage work includes playing Pope John-
Paul II in Mario Frattis The Vatican Knows at Theatre for the New City in late
2013, and a few productions with the Folksbiene Theatre. As a teacher, he has
been presenting the Film Series at the Queens Museum since 1998, as well as a
variety of cinema classes for Manhattans 92nd Street Y since 2003.
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Michael Verhoeven
Michael Verhoeven born in Berlin in 1938 to his parents Paul Verhoeven (actor/
director) and Doris Kiesow (actress). From the age of 13, he acted on stage
and screen, including in his fathers drama Der Jugendrichter (1960). In 1962,
Verhoeven gave his directorial debut in the theatre, followed by multiple
theatre productions in Munich, Vienna and Berlin throughout the 60s and
70s. He wrote, produced and directed his first movie in 1967 (Paarungen).
His controversial movie O.K., 1970, about the Vietnam War, caused a major
scandal at the Berlin Film Festival, perceived as having Anti-American
tendencies.His movies Die Weie Rose (1981/1982) and Das schreckliche
Mdchen (The Nasty Girl, 1989), gained much success and won numerous
awards. Michael Verhoevens political activism and his body of work on both
the Nazi period and Jewish life in Germany have been honoured by Jewish
organizations throughout Germany and Europe.
Nancy Spielberg
An accomplished businesswoman, fundraiser and philanthropist, Nancy
Spielberg has in recent years turned her energy and considerable talents to
producing documentary films. She served as consultant on the Oscar-winning
documentary Chernobyl Heart, and is executive producer of Elusive Justice:
The Search for Nazi War Criminals, which aired nationally on PBS. Before
creating and producing Above and Beyond, Spielberg produced a project for
the Israeli government, Celebrities Salute Israels 60th, which was featured
in Times Square on the NASDAQ screens for one month. Spielberg grew up
surrounded by the film industry, where she worked on her brother Stevens
early films. She attended Arizona State University and UCLA and, after moving
to New York, studied film and screenwriting at Sarah Lawrence College
and the New School in New York. She is founder and co-founder of several
charities including A Bid for Charity, Children of Chernobyl, Project Sunshine
and the U.S. branch of The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
Noaz Deshe
Director and Cinematographer. His first full-length feature White Shadow, in
which he is the producer, writer, cinematographer, and director premiered at
the Critics Week selection at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, and
won the Lion of the Future Award. Among his work as a cinematographer are
the films - Gazafish: Caught in the Net (2003) and Area K: A Political Fishing
Documentary (2002).
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Philippe Kotlarski
Philippe Kotlarski has worked as an editor on the films Le petit prince, Eager
Bodies, and Julia. He has directed the short film Une journe entire sans
mentir and co-directed Friends from France.
Rachel Nierenberg
Rachel Nierenberg Pasternak is a writer and editor who holds a Masters
Degree in Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Rachel wrote
one of the first academic papers on Joachim Prinzs life and career. Rachel
began her journalism career as a writer for the New Jersey Jewish News,
where she established her own column. More recently, her work has appeared
on various blogs as well as in the New York Times.
Radek adczuk
Radek adczuk studied cinematography at the Polish National Film School in
Lodz, a member of the Polish and European Film Academy. His career spans
across numerous award-winning feature films, short films, documentaries,
music videos and TV commercials. He received multiple prestigious awards at
Camerimage FF for Suicide Room, including Best Cinematography Debut. He
was the DOP for the Israeli film Princess, the Palestinian short film, Izriqaq,
as well as an Australian feature film, a thriller titled The Babadook which was
selected for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Ravit Turjeman
Ravit Turjeman is the Founder and Managing Director of Dragoman Films,
a NYC-based boutique film distribution company, specializing in grass
root marketing to niche markets in North America. Turjeman also provides
consulting services to the Israel Film Center at the JCC in Manhattan, and
serves as director and programmer of numerous film festivals in the Tri-State
area, among them The Other Israel Film Festival, ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities
Film Festival, and NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
Richard Misek
Richard Misek Filmmaker, Media Theorist, and Educator. He has a
professional background as a video editor and motion graphics designer,
and is a former Knox Fellow at Harvard University. Misek completed a PhD
in Screen Studies at Melbourne University in 2008. His teaching focuses on
digital filmmaking, and encompasses fiction, documentary, and experimental
forms. His current research explores the interstices between cinema and
digital media, and extends across traditional scholarship and practice-
based research/filmmaking. He is the author of the book Chromatic Cinema
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and of numerous articles on moving image aesthetics
and technologies. He is also the director of the feature-length documentary
Rohmer in Paris (2013), which has screened in five continents and received
widespread critical acclaim.
Ruben Amar & Lola Bessis
Ruben Amar & Lola Bessis are award-winning French filmmakers living
between NYC and Paris. They are a couple in real life as well as behind the
camera. Their short films have been screened at more than 150 renowned
international film festivals. Swim Little Fish Swim is their feature film debut.
Lola Bessis, who was 21-years-old at the time of filming, also makes her first
appearance in the film as Lilas. Swim Little Fish Swim premiered at SXSW13
and ROTTERDAM 2014. It will be released in the USA, France, Brazil and Greece
in 2014. Ruben and Lola are now developing several feature screenplays.
Saar Klein
Saar Klein is a two-time Oscar nominee for his work editing Terrence Malicks
The Thin Red Line and Cameron Crowes Almost Famous. He also edited
Doug Limans Jumper, The Bourne Identity, Fair Game, Malicks The New
World and The Tree Of Life, and Oliver Stones U-Turn. Saar also executive-
produced David Gordon Greens critically acclaimed The Undertow. He
has written and directed two short films as well as directed and edited a
multitude of award winning commercials. Born in Jerusalem, Saar now lives
in California.
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STEFAN RUZOWITZKY
Stefan Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna in 1961. He studied Theatre and History
and worked as a journalist for Austrian Television. His feature directorial debut
Tempo won the Max Ophls Promotional Award in 1997. The Inheritors became
an international festival success, won the Tiger Award in Rotter- dam and was
presented at the New York Film Festival. Anatomy became the top grossing
German genre film to this day, Lilly the Witch a most successful childrens movie.
His haunting concentration camp drama The Counterfeiters (2007) celebrated its
premiere at the Berlinale in 2007 and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language
Film at the 80th Academy Awards. In 2012 Deadfall , starring Eric Bana, Sissy
Spacek and Kris Kristofferson opened at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Velvet Moraru
Velvet Moraru has worked in Romanian cinema since the 1980s. She was script
supervisor for Studiourile de Producie Cinematografic in Bucharest and
later on collaborated with Harun Farocki Studios, Germany, acting as assistant
director for Videograms of a Revolution (1991). She was delegate producer
for Silent Wedding (2007), and executive producer for productions such as
The Bear (2010). For almost 20 years, together with director of photography
Vivi Dragan Vasile, she also ran Fundatia Arte Vizuale, one of the leading
post-Revolution audiovisual NGOs which have supported numerous emerging
directors and directors of photography in the 90s and 2000s who now are
renowned Romanian filmmakers.
Vivian Ostrovsky
Vivian Ostrovsky is an experimental filmmaker. Her films have been shown
at major international film festivals and are in the collections of the MOMA
(NY), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Friends of the Deutsch Kinemathek
(Berlin). She is Curator of Intersections, the Jerusalem Film Festivals avant-
garde program, and of the Carte Blanche section of the Festival, which shows
far-from- mainstream films. Her other activities include the Board of Directors
of the Jerusalem Film Center, the Film Forum, NY, and the Light Cone, Paris.
Zaza Urushadze
Zaza Urushadze Director, Screenwriter, and Producer. He has served as head
of the Georgian Union if Filmmakers since 2013. Urushadze studied film
directing at Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgian State University. He is
known for his films Mandariinid (2013), which was screened and won prizes
at several festivals, Ak Tendeba (1998), Three Houses (2008), and Tangerines
(2013) - a film he wrote and produced, and which received the Best Director
Award in the International Competition and the Audience Poll at the 29th
Warsaw Film Festival.
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ISRAELI FILMMAKERS & PROFESSIONALS
ISRAELI FEATURES COMPETITION
Bezzi Getta
Bezzi Getta Graduate of B.F.A. Film and Television Sapir Academic College.
Getta is the Scriptwriter and Director of Red Leaves, (80), which was supported
by Israeli Film Fund, the Avi-Chai Film Fund, the Gesher Multicultural Film
Fund, The Television and Cable Council, and Yes. The film was screened at
Cinema South Film Festival, Sderot. Furthermore Getta is the Scriptwriter and
Director of the film Medium Rare, (56), which was screened at the Jerusalem
Film Festival 2010 and Cinema South Film Festival, Sderot 2010.
David Mandil
David Mandil, Producer. MoviePlus Productions is an independent production
company established by David Mandil, specializing in full-length feature
films, documentaries, TV series and dramas. Over the years the company
has produced more than fifteen full length feature films, such as the award
winning films: Footnote, Dir. Joseph Cedar - Best Screenplay Award at the
64th Cannes Film Festival, nominee for Best Foreign Picture at the American
Film Academy awards 2012 & Beaufort, Dir. Joseph Cedar -Silver Bear Award
for Best Director Berlin 2007, nominee for Best Foreign Picture at the American
Film Academy awards 2008.
Efrat Corem
Efrat Corem was born and raised in Ashkelon. She graduated from the
Colony of Arts - a high school with a special emphasis on arts in Mizpe
Ramon. She then pursued a B.A in Cinema and Television studies at Sapir
College. Her final student film, Your Younger Yaughter Rachel, was selected
for Cannes 2007 at the Cinfondation. Since 2009, she is the Artistic Director of
the Cinema South Film Festival. She is in charge of the Israeli cinema section
of the festival.
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Elad Gavish
Elad Gavish is a film and television producer, as well as a new media
entrepreneur. Gavish has been actively involved in production and
development with Israels leading production houses and broadcast channels
for the past decade. Gavish studied at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television
School in Jerusalem and is a graduate of the Creative Producers Program of
the Binger FilmLab in Amsterdam. He was awarded the Highlight Pitch Award
at the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2009. Princess is his third cooperation
with director Tali Shalom-Ezer, and their first feature-length film made
together. Beforehand they created the short Living Room (2006) and the mid-
length Surrogate (2008) which were both showcased within the Jerusalem
Film Festival.
Elad Peleg & Haggai Arad
Daroma Productions strives to bring the individual back to the center and
produced films that deals with social issues. Their mission is to give a voice to
the Other the ones that arent represented in the mass media. The Company,
founded in 2009, already has 12 projects for cinema and T.V. 5 already
completed and 7 more in advanced production stages. Red Leaves is the
first feature film. Two other films: Mossad and Amal-Hope will take a part in
Jerusalem Film Festival Pitch Point session.
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Itai Tamir
Itai Tamir Producer. Tamir was born in 1958 in Kibutz Kfar Rupin, Israel. In the
year 2010, he established Laila-Films an independent productions company.
produced over 30 feature films and international co-productions, among them
Policeman,2011, by Nadav Lapid, which received many awards such as the
Silver leopard Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, Not in Tel-Aviv, 2012 by Nony
Geffen, Sharqiya ,2012, by Ami Livne which was screened at the Berlin Festival
Panorama and won the First Prize editing and photography at the Jerusalem
FF, Alice, 2013, by Dana Goldberg which won Editing Prize and Best Actress
and Special mention for the young director at the Jerusalem FF and Nurith
Avivs documentaries Translation, 2010 and Announces, 2013.
Keren Yedaya
Keren Yedaya Israeli director and writer. She is involved in political and social
issues, especially with human and woman rights. She has made her debut
with three shorts films: Elinor, Lulu and Underwears. Her first feature film Or
(My Treasure) won the Camera dOr at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. Her
second feature film Jaffa, has participated in 2009 in the Official Selection, Out
of Competition in the Cannes Film Festival. Away from his Absence (2014)
is her third feature film, and is also selected to the Official Selection of the
Cannes Film Festival.
Moshe Edery, Leon Edery
Moshe Edery, Leon Edery Producers. United King Films, owned by Moshe
Edery and Leon Edery, is the leading entertainment content enterprise in
Israel today. The company started its business interests in film distribution
broadening their scope and becoming leaders of local distribution,
production and marketing of a vast range of entertainment and its related
businesses. The company stands at the forefront of every aspect of the local
entertainment industry from feature films to television, home entertainment/
DVD, stage performances and a wide range of music productions.
JURY MEMBERS ISRAELI FILMMAKERS & PROFESSIONALS
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Nadav Lapid
Nadav Lapid is a film director and a writer. Lapid studied philosophy at
the University of Tel-Aviv and literature in Paris. His first novel, Keep on
Dancing, was published by Babel in Israel, and by Actes Sud in France.
His short films were selected for the Cannes and Berlin film festivals. His
50-minute graduation film, Emiles Girlfriend, was commercially distributed
in theaters throughout France. His first feature, Policeman, developed within
the Cinefondation residency won the Grand Jury Award at the Locarno Film
Festival 2011. Policeman won more than twenty awards at international
film festivals, was screened at numerous festivals and was selected in the
American critics polls as one of the best films of 2011.The Kindergarten
Teacher, his second feature, developed in the Jerusalem Film Lab premiered
at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ronit Elkabetz
Screenwriter, Director, Actress. Elkabetz is an Israeli-French actress. She
starred in numerous films, including: Shchur, Late Marriage, Or, Mabul, Jaffa,
and The Bands Visit, among others. In the past decade, Elkabetz has also
participated in various French films, including works by Andre Techine and
Fanny Ardant. Elkabetz has also acted on stage in Israel and internationally.
Together with her brother, Shlomy Elkabetz, she co-wrote and co-directed the
award winning, critically acclaimed films To Take a Wife (Venice, 2004) and
Shiva (Cannes, 2008). Elkabetz has received numerous prizes at home and
abroad for her acting and directing, such as the Ophir Prized (Israeli Academy
Awards) and most recently, the French Legion of Honor.
Shira Geffen
Born in Tel Aviv in 1971. A playwright, director, children`s author and actress,
Geffen has published 5 books for children. She studied at the Nissan Nativ
Drama Studio and has performed at the Habimah National Theater as well
as at the Cameri and Khan Theaters. Geffen was awarded many prizes for
her books. In 2007 Geffen wrote and co-directed her first feature film Jellyfish
(Meduzot), which won 3 prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the
prestigious Camera dOr. Her feature Self Made premiered as part of the
Critics week at the Cannes Festival 2014.
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Shlomy Elkabetz
Screenwriter, Director, Producer. Elkabetz has taught Cinema for over a
decade at Sapir College in Sderot and at the Minshar Academy in Tel-Aviv.
Together with his sister, Ronit Elkabetz, he co-wrote and co-directed the
award winning, critically acclaimed films To Take a Wife (Venice, 2004) and
Shiva (Cannes, 2008). In 2009, he wrote and directed the second season of
Ran Foursome (15 chapters) and in 2011 he directed and produced the film
Testimony, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Elkabetz is the Artistic
Director of Studio South the Production Lab of the Cinema South Film
Festival.
Tali Shalom Ezer
Tali Shalom Ezer Director & Screenwriter. Princess is her debut feature film.
The screenplay won the Highlight Pitch Award at the Talent Project Market
2009. It was developed within the Binger Screenwriters Film Lab, Amsterdam
2009-2010 program. Shalom Ezer wrote and directed the following films:
Surrogate (58, 2009) which won several awards and was screened at various
film festivals worldwide, Living Room (19, 2006) which was screened at the
Cannes Film Festival, Jerusalem IFF, A Summer at Abarbanel (6o, 2005) won
the 2nd prize for Best Film at DocAviv Documentary Film Festival and was
broadcasted on Israeli Channel 8.
Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman-Keren
Producers. Pie Films, produces feature films and documentaries set up as
international co-productions with some of Israels leading writers/directors.
The company successfully combines years of experience in production,
acquisitions and distribution in Israel and the international market. Recent
and upcoming releases include Bethlehem (Winner 6 Ophir Awards, Winner
Venice Days 2013, Official Selection TIFF 2013), The Kindergarten Teacher
(Cannes 2014), The Farewell Party (coproduced with Germany), The Kind
Words (co-produced with Canada) and others.
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Alexandra Rahmilevich
Director & Scriptwriter. Holds a BA in Film & Communication from Kibbutzim
College, an MA in Practical Filmmaking and Psychology, and has studied
Scriptwriting. She is an independent director, producer, cinematographer
and scriptwriter for short films and clips. Wrote and Directed the film: Honor
thy Father and thy Mother, Damn It! (60), winner of the Scriptwriters Guild
Award, supported by The New Foundation for Film and Yes-Doco, Distances
(30), Haifa Festival 2008 and Post Scriptum, (45), documentary, winner
of a Special Award at DocAviv Festival 2008 which was screened at New
Filmmakers Festival, NY.
Barak Heymann
Director & Producer. Heymann has been directing and producing
documentaries for TV and cinema for a decade. Barak and his brother
Tomers independent film company (Heymann Brothers Films) has produced
over 20 documentaries, some as international co-productions. Their films
were premiered at numerous festivals worldwide, such as Berlinale, IDFA and
Hotdocs and have won prestigious awards. Barak teaches in several films
schools in Israel and is currently engaged in a number of ongoing projects.
Deva (Oz ) Melman
Independent Filmmaker. Operates and acts in diverse fields of the film arena.
Melman is a graduate of the Department of Film and Television at the Faculty
of Arts Tel Aviv University. His first directing role in a full-length documentary
film was a Rectangle of Sun, 2000. He directed Lyrics in 2012, which competed
for the Best Documentary at the Haifa Film Festival. Directed and produced
Shooting Days (2004) together with Michal Kapra, which was well received by
the critics and became a nominee for the Ophir Competition (Israeli Awards)
and was the screened at many foreign festivals over the last decade. Melman
is also a lecturer at the Department of New Media ,Musrara, Jerusalem.
Hilla Medalia
Peabody Award-winning director and producer. Medalia has received three
Emmy nominations, won the Golden Warsaw Phoenix, as well as the jury
awards at FIPA, and Faito doc. Her film Dancing in Jaffa premiered at the
Tribeca FF, won the editing award at Docaviv and the Honorary One Future
award at Munich FF. The film has participated in the Sundance Institute Film
Forward program. Past projects: To Die in Jerusalem (HBO), Happy Youre
Alive (ch1 Israel) and Numbered (YES) won the Silver Hugo at Chicago IFF
and Best Debut Documentary at the Israeli Documentary Awards.
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Michal Kaphra
Michal Kaphra is a director of documentary productions. She graduated from
Tel Aviv University where she majored in the art of Film and Television. In
1990 she was given a grant at NYU in communication and television. For more
than 10 years she was one of the most known journalists writing political
articles for Maariv newspapers. Among her works: Epilogue Monologues
about deat, 2011, Channel 8, Almost, 2008, A Bloc. A lot. A house, 2005, CH.
1 Israeli TV, Shooting Days, 2004, which was shown at many renowned Film
Festivals and Film Events worldwide, Reserve Duty Diary in Kalandia, 2002, A
short documentary film for CH. 1 Israeli TV and On The Lands Edge, 2000, A
documentary film for CH 1 Israeli TV.
Robby Elmaliah
Robby Elmaliah was born in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. He is
a musician and director, a graduate of the Film and Television School,
Sapir College. Elmaliah directed 5 short films during his studies: Salem,
Daud, Cease-Fire, Red Home & The Robbery. Natan & Hula is his Debut
Award Winning Documentary Film. Robby directed the Israeli side short
documentaries of the new media project Gaza-Sderot, Produced by Trabelsi
Productions, Alma Films, and ARTE and which was nominated for the
international Emmy Award.
Ruthie Shatz
Ruthie Shatz studied film at the world renowned Sam Spiegel Film and
Television School, Jerusalem Israel and graduated in 1998. Diamonds
and Rust (2001) marked her documentary directorial debut. Amongst her
other films are Garden, The Collaborator and His Family and the highly
successful doc series Ichilov. Shatz won numerous international Awards
for her films including the Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize at Yamagata,
International Best at San Francisco, SCAM Prize at Cinema du reel and
many more. Shatz is involved in directing producing and consulting for
documentary film companies and commercial TV.
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Sigal Landesberg
Independent producer and researcher of documentary cinema since 2001.
Until then she was a producer at Israel Film Service and graduated with an
M.A degree in Communications and Public Policy from the Hebrew University,
Jerusalem. The majority of her films were broadcast and screened at local and
international film festivals. In 2012 co-produced the documentary The Lesson
with director Anat Zuria. The film won First Prize at the Haifa International
Film Festival. In 2009 co-produced and co-researched with director Anat
Zuria the documentary Black Bus. The film won First Prize at the Haifa
International Film Festival and was screened at the Berlinale Film Festival,
Forum of New Cinema, Germany 2010.
Tal Michael
Tal Michael born in 1974 is a movie director, content editor and animal rights
activist. Michael is a graduate of the Film and Television Department at Tel
Aviv University, and a PhD student in Comparative Literature. Among her
works are the documentaries: My Little Empire, Damascus Captor, Israel
is not Waiting and Whos Afraid of Mordechai Vanunu. Researcher for the
films: A Second Look (Channel 1), Story (Channel 2) and Vacum (Educational
Television). As a student, she made a short film that has been selected for
various international film festivals and awarded in TV frames for short films. In
2001 she shot her first drama Bench Player (ICP TV). The movie was selected
as The Best Drama at the Haifa Film Festival, and participated in many
international film festivals.
Tomer Heymann
Born in Kfar Yedidia in Israel in 1970 and has directed many documentary
films and series in the past ten years, most of them long-term follow-ups
and personal documentations. His films have won major awards at different
prestigious film festivals including his first film it Kinda Scares Me. Paper
Dolls won three awards at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival and the Audiences
Award at the Los Angeles Festival. The film and TV series Bridge over the
Wadi, co-produced with the American ITVS, won the Israeli Documentary Film
competition, participated in IDFA Festivals prestigious competition and won
many awards around the world. Heymans new 8-part series The Way Home
won the Best Documentary Series Award at the 2009 Jerusalem International
Film Festival.
Tor Ben Mayor
Tor Ben Mayor studied Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. He worked
in Israels Channel 1 public television as a film director and editor for several
years. Since 2001 hes been working as an independent director and editor,
among his work: Kapo (1999), which he co- directed and edited, winner of
the 2000 International EMMY Award for Best Documentary, Love In Auschwitz
(2003), which he directed and edited, and Two Sided Story (2012).
Uri Misgav
Journalist at Haaretz newspaper and the writer of the popular political blog
Misgav Laam. Misgav is a lecturer on the history of Israeli and international
rock, a devout fan of Arik Einstein. Misgav has worked in the past as a writer
and editor at Hair, Time Out and Yedioth Achronot, as well as a culture and
magazine reporter at channel 10 News. Life of Poetry - The Story of Avraham
Halfib is his first film.
Vanessa Lapa
Vanessa Lapa has been living in Israel since 1995, originally from Belgium, an
accomplished journalist; she produced and directed over a hundred factual
reportages for Israeli television. Her documentary film Olmert Concealed
Documentary (2009) was hailed as a unique cinma vrite achievement.
Lapa was also on the Israeli side of the production and content for the 52
documentary Straddling the Fence (2003) directed by NY Times columnist
Thomas Friedman, which aired worldwide. In 2007, she founded the Tel Aviv-
based independent documentary film production company Realworks Ltd.
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Yael Gur
Yael Gur is a director and editor of documentaries and films for social
organizations and NGOs. Gur graduated with Honors from the Department
of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. She mentors youth groups in
making movies. Among the organizations and entities for which Gur has
been producing and directing films are the Kids Creating Peace, The Holon
Theater Acting Studio, Bat Yam Company for Leisure and Sport, Ltd., REUT -
Youth Advancement Department -Lod Municipality. Choose Me is her first
documentary.
Yossi Aviram
Yossi Aviram graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School.
Writer & director of the feature film Le Dune - Best First Feature Film Haifa FF
2013, Official Selection San Sebastian FF, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Bergamo
and more. Writer of Under the Same Sun (82) by Sameh Zoabi. Aviram
directed documentary films, among them Paris Return YesDoco, winner
of the Best Film Saint Petersburg FF, and aired in Arte France and A few
Days channel 8. Director of photography of documentary films among them
Teacher Irena by Itamar Chen, My Belly by Elian Lazorevsky & I Have a Team
to Save by Haim Shadmi.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Ariel (KALBATA) Tegar
Ariel (KALBATA) Tegar is a photographer and a musician, debuting his first
film in this years Jerusalem Film Festival. Ariel studied photography at the
University of the Arts London and lived in the UK for a number of years
where he began a prolific career as an electronic music producer. His film,
Congo Beat the Drum is a documentary film shot in Jamaica and Tel Aviv.
It is a musical journey following the recording of an album with forgotten
reggae artists from the past. Tekarwork has always been deeply rooted in
underground culture, in the form of both cutting edge music and imagery.
Avida Livny
Avida Livny is a graduate of the Film and Television Department
at Tel Aviv University. He has directed the documentary feature films On The
Move (2008) and Looking For Moshe Guez (2011). Livny also directed three
episodes in the documentary series 100 Years Of Jewish Humor (2003), wrote
the script for the drama Ima Vav with director Shachar Rozen (2001), wrote the
script and directed the drama Max Baers Last Right Hook (2006), directed
the short film Moishe Adolf (2003) and the documentary TV series Traffickers,
Food Of The Earth, and The Albums and is currently working on a feature
documentary about the British-Israeli designer Ron Arad.
Benny Fredman
Benny Fredman Studied at Camera Obscura and directed the low budget
feature film Suicide which was supported by The Jerusalem Film & Television
Fund. The film is an action thriller that takes place on the cold streets of
Jerusalem and never gives its audience a minute to rest.
Cecilia Lewinzon
Cecilia Lewinzon Director. Was born in Argentina in 1983, graduated from
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2013. Her first film, El Truco (The Trick),
is a documentary film produced in 2014 with the support of Alex Bernstein
Fund, The Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem Cinematheque Foundation,
Gesher Multicultural Film and Yes Docu.
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Liora Landau
Liora Landau has been producing a large variety of documentaries, dramas
and reality programs since the early 80s. Her movie Sharon (director: Dror
More) premiered atthe Berlin Film Festival in 2008.
Moish Goldberg
Moish Goldberg works as a documentary filmmaker. His first film The Arena
(2001) told the history of Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, which is a microcosm of
Israel. A Million Bullets in October (2008) brought new evidences about the
eruption of the Second Intifada. Life as a Rumor (2013) is a documentary
series about the fascinating life story of Israeli filmmaker Assi Dayan. In the
current Jerusalem Film Festival, Goldberg will present Defense Files (2014), a
series about public defenders and the criminals they represent.
Shachar Zefania
Shachar Zefania was born and raised in Jerusalem, and completed his Film
and Television studies at Tel-Aviv University. His work represents a body of
work reflecting the Jewish Ethos, including Jewish concepts, ideas, heritage,
tradition, the Holocaust, historical experience and the contemporary
condition in Israel or in the communities of the Diaspora. Produced the film
Suicide, directed by Benny Fredman.
Yoram Ron
Yoram Ron studied Philosophy in Jerusalem and in Paris, and Cinema at Tel-
Aviv University. His experimental film If & Only If won a prize at the Jerusalem
Film Festival in 2003 and his short film Money won the One-Shot Prize in
Docaviv- Galil 2009.
Nadav Harel
Producer, Editor. Harel is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been
shown in theatres, TV stations, and festivals worldwide. Harel has worked as
a cameraman, art director, editor, director, writer and producer. Currently he
is working on fiction and documentary projects in Israel/Palestine, the US,
and Africa. Harel is the director of the documentary Electric Mind which
was screened in film venues worldwide. He also worked on the film Area K
about fisherman clans of Gaza Strip, a dangerous project that forced Harel
to risk his own life. Harel is also Editor of highly acclaimed films such as
Ushpizin, Children of the Revolution, Chicken Hawk, The Last Stand (BBC).
FRINDGIDAIRE
Adam Kalderon
Adam Kalderon born in Kibbutz Beeri in 1981. Lives and works in Tel-Aviv as a
Director, Screenwriter, Costume Designer, Art Director and a Video & Sound
artist. From the age of 9 to 21 he was a professional swimmer in the Israeli
Swimming Team. After moving to Berlin, where he recorded his first solo
album as a singer ADAM, he came back to Tel-Aviv to direct his first feature
film, Marzipan Flowers.In 2013 he was nominated for two Ophir Awards
(Israeli academy awards) for Best Art Director and Best Costume Designer
for the film Six Acts.In2014 he designed the costumes for the Yasmeen
Godder Dance Group - Climax and also designed the costumes for Milk Milk
Lemonade for Haifa Theater.
Eran Koblik Kedar
Eran Koblik Kedar was born in Israel in 1972. He graduated from the Yoram
Loewenstein Acting Studio and the Department of Film and Television at the
Tel Aviv University. He was a critic and editor at The Third Ear internet site and
hosted a weekly program on the radio. Together with his life-partner, Ricardo
Rojstaczer, they created their first feature film Mind Fuck, an experimental
fake documentary. He is the Director and Writer of the short film Girush Le
Gan Eden and of A Short Chronicle of Illness (37, 2006). Auxiliary Ego is his
third feature-length film.
Ori Hod
Ori Hod began his career in the USA and worked as a freelanced producer
for the major Networks. In 2001 Hod returned to Israel and became the
executive Producer and a Founding Member of Channel 10 Israels second
commercial TV Network. Hod later worked as VP of Content Development at
Globus Group studios before becoming an in dependent producer and has
since spearheaded several successful TV and film projects both as a creative
developer and a producer.
Shalom Goodman
Shalom Goodman is a producer living and working in Israel. His recent films
include both Documentary and Narrative Fiction and have circuited both
Festivals and Networks worldwide. Was the Line Producer of the film Dancing
in Jaffa, 2013 and is the Producer of 10% My child.
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Udi Yerushalmy
Udi Yerushalmy Taz Film Productions is a young production company with
a seasoned producer and content developer at the helm. Udi Yerushalmy,
founder and owner, is a prominent producer in the Israeli TV and film
landscape with over twenty years of production experience in Israel and
abroad. Yerushalmy recently produced the award winning film Six Acts.
Uri Bar On
Screenwriter and Director. Since 2002 he has been active in the Israeli
Television and film industry as a director and screenwriter. His short films and
documentaries (72 Virgins, A Kiss is a Kiss, King Lati the First) screened at
major festivals and broadcasters all over the world including Sundance and
Tribecca Film Festivals and ARTE. He is currently a lecturer at the Minshar
School for Arts, Cinema Department and at the Interdisciplinary Center
Hertzelyia, School of communication. 10% my child is his first full-feature film.
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Ada Rimon
Ada Rimon and Ofeq Shemer grew up in the Galilee, and have been working
in the post production industry for the past 8 years. Ofeq also is part of the Zik
Artists Collective. Ada, grew up in Jerusalem, studied drawing in Berlin, and
recently won a prize for young film makers from the Jerusalem Foundation of
Canada. Together, they create short films combining traditional stop motion,
computer animation, live action and collage. Their films have taken part in
film festivals in Israel, San Francisco, Kiev, Belgium and Montreal.
Al-Haddad Family
A Palestinian family from Hebron. They have been filming human rights
violations in Hebron as part of the BTselem Camera Project since 2008. Ehab
Tarabieh Film director. His short film The Forgotten premiered in Doha &
Tribeca Film Festivals and was screened in numerous film festivals worldwide.
Yoav Gross Documentary filmmaker and video activist. In 2011, his short film
Susya premiered in the Berlinale and was screened in many film festivals
worldwide.
Alon Rabinovich
Alon Rabinovich moved to Israel in the year 2003. He finished his studies at
the Maaleh school of Television, Film & the Art of Jerusalem, in 2013. Movies
made in the framework of study at the school of Film and Television: Mirror
(Fiction, 4 min), Love to be Animator (Documentary, 7 min), Demobilization
(Fiction, 10 min), The Parallel World (Documentary, 10 min), A Visit to my
Parents (Final Documentary movie, 27 min).
Amitai Ashkenazi
Amitai Ashkenazi 33, was born and raised in Kibbutz Maayan Zvi. Till the End
of the Day is his first short film as a director. Ashkenazi acted in a few feature
films and is working as a musician.
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Avishai Becker
Born in 1983, Vered, Jericho, Israel. Avishai Becker, the son of Gideon, a tour
guide turned CEO of a tourism company, and Rachel, a kindergarten teacher,
was born and raised in a small village in the dry Judean desert. Growing up
in the desert without cable TV caused Avishais imagination to work overtime,
so when he attended the Film & TV Department of Tel-Hai College he already
had a broad arsenal of unpolished stories waiting to be told. Tragedies,
blended with a twist of ironic humor, are the raw material for his work.
Dan Messer
Born in Jerusalem 1988. Works in teaching, editing and camera operating.
Omer Ben-David
Born in a village near Jerusalem 1988. Works as a guide in different programs,
and production jobs. The two met at film class in high school. During a
decade their friendship evolved to complete partnership in creation - From
script writing and directing to editing. They are both in their 3rd year at Tel-
Aviv University Film Program.
Danielle Schwartz
Danielle Schwartz is an independent film artist and a researcher of Israeli
literature and cinema. She was born in Holon, Israel. Schwartz graduated
from the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University and The Cultural
Studies program at the Hebrew University. Her MA thesis deals with images
of Palestinian ruins in Israeli cinema. Her PhD project deals with the Realistic
discourse in Israeli literary and cinematic criticism.
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Dotan Moreno
Dotan Moreno graduated in 2008 from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,
Jerusalem, where he studied Animation. Moreno works as in independent
animation filmmaker and graphic artist. Independent short films: I Want Your
Love, Every Time you go Away I Stab Myself a Little (2012).
Dudi Dorham
Dudi Dorham is a Director, Screenwriter and Cinematographer. Dorham
graduated from the Sam Spiegel School. During the past 4 years has taken
various parts in fiction and documentary feature films, alongside working as
a freelance cameraman. He has made an independent short fiction film. At
the moment Dorham is a the cinematographer of what is meant to be a 50
minute documentary film, while writing on his first full-length script.
Erez Tadmor, Guy Nattiv
Graduates of the Camera Obscura School of Arts. Their short films Strangers
(2007) and Offside (2006) have won awards at international festivals, including
the Best Short Film Award at Sundance for Strangers, as well as being short -
listed for the Oscars. Their feature debut Strangers was screened at the
Sundance and Tribeca Festivals. Separately, Nattiv wrote and directed Mabul
(The Flood) in 2010, and Tadmor directed the film A Matter of Size (2009).
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Gan De- Lange
Gan De- Lange is a filmmaker, production designer & an exhibiting sculptor &
painter. De Lange graduated Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem. Her short
Nest (2012) was screened at 10 international film festivals and, won the First
Prize of Kyoto International Student FF and the Children FF Jerusalem. Her
graduation film Babaga (2013) was nominated to Cinfondation at the Cannes
FF 2013 and to the Israeli Film Academy Awards. The film won first prize
of the Israeli Film Critics at the Tel Aviv ISFF, 2013. Received the Promising
Director Award at the Womens Film Festival 2013 and Special Mention in the
Jerusalem FF 2013.
Hadas Ayalon
Hadas Ayalon was born in 1978 in Israel. She has a B.A in Film from Tel
Aviv University and these days she is finishing her M.A in the same school.
For the past 10 years she has been working as a film editor in Tel Aviv. Her
filmography includes David Fishers Documentary Six Million and One which
was in IDFAs official selection in 2011. Paris on the Water is her debut drama
film, and she is now currently directing a 50-minutes Documentary. Paris on
the Water is one of the 2014 Academy Awards Oscar winners.
Inbal Ochyon, Michal Spiegelglas
Inbal Ochyon and Michal Spiegelglas are graduates of the Screen Arts
Department (Classical Animation) at Bezalel Academy In Her Footsteps is
their Thesis Film.
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Inbar Horesh
Inbar Horesh was born in 1988 and grew up in Jerusalem. She studied
Arabic at Tel Aviv University and graduated in 2014 from Minshar School for
Art, Department of Cinema. Her graduation film The Visit was part of the
Cinefondation selection at 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Currently Horesh is
editing her documentary feature Crossing and working on a script for her
debut fiction feature.
Jonathan Dekel
Jonathan Dekel was born in 1983, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Israel
and returned to Los Angeles for his High School. Dekel began his studies
at the Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem in 2008. He created many
video clips and comedy skits commercially during his studies at the Sam
Spiegel School, among them two short narrative films and three 45-minute
documentaries. Dekel is also the Creative Director in Viddyo, a startup that
creates personalized skits online. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Neta and
son Noam and is currently working on his first feature film. April Fools is his
Graduation Film and the first in the school to be shot with an iPhone.
Matan Guggenheim
Matan Guggenheim is an Israeli filmmaker. His short film Crickets won
numerous festival prizes and was exhibited in more than 70 film festivals
including Locarno, Toronto and Clermont Ferrand. Recently he finished his
first feature film that he wrote and directed, Paradise Cruise , which currently
is going through the festival circuit . ComeBack is his second Short film.
Netalie Braun
Netalie Braun is a filmmaker of fiction and documentary films. Braun is the
artistic director of the International Women Film Festival, Rehovot, Israel.
Among her films: The Hangman (2010), Gevald (2008), Metamorphosis (2006)
and N.Brauns Last Supper (2004).
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Niv Shpigel
Niv Shpigel was born in Israel in 1985, an enthusiastic animation director and
filmmaker who discovered his creative journey when he started studying at
the Bezalel Academy in 2007. Since 2011, he has been working in the Israeli
animation and game industry and has contributed to various feature films,
animation series and video games, alongside his own personal projects.
Noa Gusakov
Noa Gusakov graduated from the Sam Spiegel School. Her short Walking Up
was selected for the Haifa International FF, The Israeli FF in Montreal and
won the Lions Award from the Jerusalem Foundation. Her graduation film
Lookout won the Promising Director Award at the international competition of
the TA Student FF 2014. Gusakov was an editor and scriptwriter for several TV
shows and is working as an editor for the series Connected. Gusakov worked
as a P.A for Natalie Portman in the shooting of the film A Tale
of Love and Darkness, and as a script manager in the film Zero Motivation.
Rafael Balulu
Rafael Balulu graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film School. Balulu teaches
film in Tel Aviv. Balulu participated at the Berlinale Talent Campus and at the
TIFF Talent Lab. Balulus shorts won international prizes, among them, Such
Eyes which won the NYC Shorts, Batman at the Checkpoint which won the
Berlin Today Award at the 62nd Berlinale and My Name Is Solomon Hagos
which premiered at TIFF. He is shooting a documentary and writing a feature
film about the Israeli Black Panther movement.
Robert Moreno
Born in Israel in 1984, left at the age of 3 to Guatemala and eventually to Chile,
where he grew up. Moreno made his first animated short film at the age of 10.
He moved back to Israel in 2006 to pursue his dream of studying animation,
enrolling at the Bezalel Academy in 2007. Since 2011 hes been involved
in many different projects including video games, feature films and sand
sculpting exhibitions.
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Shira Makin
Shira Makin is a Tel Aviv University Film Studies graduate. She was the
Production Manager of the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival in 2012.
Today Makin is finishing her MA in Cultural Studies. This is her first short film.
Shira Porat
Shira Porat studied at the Ted Arison School of the Arts and in the Drama
Department of the Alon High School, where for each year of her studies, she
received the prestigious Citation from the Ministry of Education. Later on
Porat returned to Alon High School as a teacher/director. During her B.A at Tel
Aviv University, her first short film Has Anyone Seen Eyal Nurich? won three
awards in the Tel-Aviv International Film Festival and was accepted to the
WOW Film Festival, the NMIFF and the Jerusalem International FF.
Tom Kless
Born in Kibbutz Nir-David and grew up in Rehovot, Tom Kless is a graduate of
the Animation Department at Sapir Academic College. Kless is the winner of
the David Perlov Fund 2013.
Yael Lotem
Yael Lotem graduated from the Tel Aviv University, where she directed more
than 10 short Documentaries, and cinematographed 5 Films, among them:
Great Waters (10). In her 3rd year of studies Yael was selected for the Back
& Forth Project, a unique co-production between TA University & the German
Academy for Film & Television Berlin. During this project Lotem Directed
Death & the Maiden (29), which won the 2nd prize at DocAviv FF 2014. The
film will be broadcasted on Israeli Channel 2.
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Yair Fridman
Yair Fridman was born in Kibbutz Hulata in 1985. Before his army service he
completed a year of National Service at Mifne, a school for youth at-risk
who specialized in photography and film. In 2011 he began film studies
at Hamidrasha School of Arts and manages the editing rooms of the
department. Relocation is his 2nd year film.
Zvi Landsman
Zvi Landsman was born in 1983, in Yeruham. He was raised in a religious
environment, later on studied arts, writing and dance. Landsman began
his studies at The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem, in 2008. His
debut film Your Warmth (2011) was screened at numerous international film
festivals. His graduation film After All, was screened at the Tel Aviv Student
Film Festival, where it won a Special Mention Award.
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Andreas Wiseman
Andreas Wiseman is Chief Reporter at film trade magazine Screen
International and Senior Reporter at Screens TV sister magazine Broadcast,
where he covers the Television and Film sector. Prior to joining Screen in 2009
he worked in film production, including on Jane Campions Bright Star (2009)
and Ralph Fienness Coriolanus (2011).
Dan Fainaru
Dan Fainaru was in the Israeli Army Broadcasting Service (Galei Zahal), and
was their film critic until 1970. Till 2003, he was at the Israel Broadcasting
Authority (radio and television) where he was in-charge of all feature film
programming at the 1st Channel as well as producer and presenter of All
Cinema a weekly radio film review show. Founder (with his wife Edna)
and co-editor of the Israeli film magazine, Cinematheque; reviewed films
for Variety, Moving Pictures and now for Screen International. Israeli
correspondent of the International Film Guide and has presided Critics Juries
in various film festivals.
Edna Fainaru
Edna Fainaru studied Philosophy and Theatre at the TA University, worked on
the radio as an announcer, presenter and producer of shows for the Israeli
Broadcasting Service, while free lancing as features editor and interviewer
with leading Israeli dailies. Correspondent and film critic for Variety, Moving
Pictures and at present Israeli correspondent for Screen International.
Founder (with her husband Dan) and Editor in chief of the only film magazine
in Israel, Cinematheque, and working regularly as consultant for film festivals
such as Geneva, and now Istanbul and Copenhagen.
Gunter Zerbich
Gunter Zerbich was born in Hamburg. He studied business administration
at the FU in Berlin and later finished a Postgraduate degree in International
Business at the LMU in Munich. Zerbich went on to work in different
roles in the entertainment industry at the Staatsphilharmonie Reinland
Pfalz, Bertelsmann Music Group, Acclaim Entertainment (Video games), and
in 2000 he moved to London where he is now responsible for International
sales and business development at Screen International.
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Mark Mowbray
Mark Mowbray is Group Head, Production & Art for Screen International and
Media Business Insight. He produces all the print dailies that Screen does
in Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Hong Kong, Zurich, Dubai, Goa and now Jerusalem.
Melanie Goodfellow
Melanie Goodfellow is Screen Internationals French correspondent based
between London and Paris. Having started out as a graduate trainee at
Reuters News Agency, she has been covering the international film industry
for 15 years, touching down in Rome, Brussels, Tokyo and Jerusalem along the
way. Goodfellow was a reporter at Thomas Reuters and then was a journalist
in various outlets such as The Independent, Reuters, Moving Pictures and
Variety.
Wendy Mitchell
Wendy Mitchell is an editor of Screen International and ScreenDaily.com,
the global film business publications headquartered in London. Mitchell
previously worked as staff news editor for Entertainment Weekly in New
York and as Managing Editor at IndieWIRE. She has also written about the
entertainment business for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Variety,
Rolling Stone, the Dow Jones News Service, Time Out New York, Billboard,
and the New York Daily News.
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Alissa Simon
Alissa Simon is a well-known film curator and critic. Simon has an M.A in
Film History and Criticism and an M.A in Arts Administration. She was the
Associate Director of Programming at the Film Center of the Art Institute of
Chicago for twelve years. Simon programs for the Palm Springs International
Film Festival and writes reviews and filmmaker profiles for the American
trade journal Variety. Recognized as a resourceful programmer with a broad
knowledge of cinema history, shes served on numerous film festival juries
and is a member of FIPRESCI.
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson is the head film critic for the LA Weekly, and is syndicated
across the 11 papers in the Voice Media Group chain and co-hosts its weekly
Voice Film Club podcast. She has screened submissions for Sundance, AFI,
and the Los Angeles Film Festival, and holds a double B.A. in Film Studies
and Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma as well as a Masters in
Professional Writing from USC. Her interests include hot dogs, standard
poodles, Bruce Willis and comedies about the utter futility of existence, and
her first book, Anatomy of an Actor: Tom Cruise will be published by Cahiers
du Cinema in spring 2014.
Anjelika Artyukh
St. Petersburg-based Artyukh has published in several Russian and
International professional film magazines, like Iskusstvo Kino and Film
Comment, as well as numerous newspapers. She has also worked as a
professor at St. Petersburg University of Film and Television and at Smolny
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 2002 she received the Award in
memory of Michail Levitin, given by the Russian Guild of Film Critics, and in
2014 she was the recipient of an honorary diploma as the Best Film Critic of
the year by the same professional Guild. She is the member of FIPRESCI and
has participated in many international festivals juries, including Berlinale,
Rotterdam IFF, and Vienna IFF.
Burak Evren
Born in 1947 in Istanbul. After he graduated from Istanbul University,
Department of Classical Archeaology, he commenced a career in journalism.
He has worked in several newspapers including Milliyet, Hurriyet and . He
has also contributed in the cinema-theatre sections of the encyclopedias
including books on the history of cinema. He is currently an academic,
teaching in the fields of history of cinema, criticism and acting.
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Caroline Frost
Caroline Frost has been the Entertainment Editor of The Huffington Post UK since
its launch in 2011. Frost trained as a news producer at the BBC in London, before
moving to Australia in 2006 to study for her Masters Degree in Applied Ethics.
Frost was the online entertainment editor for the Herald Sun, between the years
2006 and 2010. Special interests include documentaries and crime drama.
Dana Linssen
Dana Linssen is a philosopher, writer, teacher, and film critic from the
Netherlands. She is editor in chief of the independent film monthly de Filmkrant
and long-time film critic for national leading newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
In addition, she is the founder of the Slow Criticism Project, an ongoing series
of publications and events celebrating expanded film criticism in all its forms.
Linssen is a film lecturer at ArtEZ Academy of Theatre Arnhem and is the
recipient of the 2009 Louis Hartlooper Prize for Film Journalism.
David Martos
David Martos was born in Madrid in 1984. During his studies in Journalism, he
began to work in Cadena SER which is the most popular radio network in Spain.
Martos specialized in film reporting, and since September 2012 he has been co-
host of Tentaciones [film and TV program in Canal + Spain], and works as a film
reporter for other print outlets, such as the ABC newspaper.
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor is a Los Angeles-based film critic who contributes regular reviews and
other features at NPR.ORG. She teaches in the School of Cinema at the USC,
and has written about film for The New York Times Arts & Leisure, LA Weekly,
The Village Voice, and other publications. She has worked in radio, as co-host of
KPCC-FMs weekly Filmweek, and the author of the book Prime-Time Families:
Television Culture in Post-War America. Taylor has won several awards, including
the Greater Los Angeles Press Club National Entertainment Journalism Award in
Film Criticism (2008), and the National Entertainment Journalism Award in Film
Criticism (2007).
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Jennifer Merin
Jennifer Merin covers film for About.com and is a film critic for Womens
e-News and edits Women on Film, the online magazine of the Alliance of
Women Film Journalists, of which she is President. She contributes regularly
to USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, New York Press, L.A. Times, SoHo
News, US Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Endless Vacation, Daily News, New York
Post and other publications. She holds an MFA from the NYU Tisch School
of the Arts. Merin has taught at the University of Wisconsin and University
of Rhode Island, lectured worldwide for the U.S. State Department, and
conducted workshops in NYC correctional institutions.
Jordan Hoffman
Jordan Hoffman is a writer and film critic based in New York City. His work can
currently be read in the New York Daily News and on VanityFair.com, Film.
com, Mashable, The Dissolve, and The Times of Israel.
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr has been a film critic since 2002, writing for web sites such as
FilmSchoolRejects.com and 7mpictures.com. Fat Guys at the Movies, his
syndicated radio program is heard on dozens of stations around the United
States, and he reviews films for some of the largest radio stations in the
nation. Carr is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Online
Film Critics Society, and the Central Ohio Film Critics Association.
Laya Mahes hwari
Laya Maheshwari is an Indian film critic, based in Mumbai but often found
elsewhere. He has written for publications such as RogerEbert.com,
Film Comment, Indiewire, Film.com, Cineaste and The Times of Israel.
Maheshwari was selected as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam
Trainee Project for Young Critics.
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Luis Martnez
Luis Martnez is the film critic for El Mundo, in which he covers both cinema
information and the most important film festivals in the world. He was previously
chief editor of Cinemania and deputy editor of the Spanish edition of Rolling
Stone.
Michael Ranze
Michael Ranze studied science of theatre and sociology in Erlangen/Bavaria. He
now works as a freelance journalist of film for Filmbulletin, film-dienst, and Ray.
He writes mainly reviews and interviews on film. He has written essays on King
Vidor, Yasujiro Ozu, Frank Borzage. and Mikio Naruse. He lives in Hamburg.
Nando Salv
Nando Salv is a Spanish journalist and film critic. He contributes to El Peridico
de Catalunya and Cinemana. He has also directed several TV documentaries for
Canal + Spain. Salv is the author of Paisaje abstracto con hombre al fondo.
Visita guiada a travs Del cine de Bruno Dumont (A Man Looks at an Abstract
Lanscape. A guide through Bruno Dumonts Films, 2006).
Nenad Dukic
Serbian Film Critic, Festival Programmer, and Producer. Dukic is a film critic for
Radio Belgrade, Film Quarterly Filmograf, and correspondent of The Hollywood
Reporter and BBC. In addition, he was vice-president of FIPRESCI, vice-president
of the Balkan Film Board and is now a member of the Board of the Serbian Film
Academy, the Artistic Director of International film festivals in Belgrade and
Bratislava (Slovakia), and the producer of two feature films. Dukic is a member of
European Film Academy. In 2001, he founded SEE Film, an NGO which specializes
in working on cooperation among countries of South Eastern Europe in various
spheres of filmmaking activity.
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Nick Pinkerton
Nick Pinkerton is a New York City-based writer and member of the NY Film
Critics Circle. He is a regular contributor to Artforum, Sight & Sound, Little
White Lies, and various other publications, and writes a weekly column,
Bombast, for Film Comment.
Stephen Farber
Stephen Farber is president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. He is
a critic for The Hollywood Reporter and a contributor to The New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, and The Daily Beast, and has written reviews and articles
on film for many other national publications. Farber is the host and producer
of Reel Talk with Stephen Farber, a popular screening series that showcases
new movies and discussions with filmmakers and stars. He is also the author
of four well-received books on film history and has written screenplays for
directors such as Sydney Pollack and Barry Levinson. Farber has lectured on
film at several American universities, and in institutes around the world.
Tom Brook
Tom Brook is a New York-based journalist working primarily for BBC News.
For more than 15 years Brook has been hosting Talking Movies on BBC World
News, which reaches more homes than any other film TV program in the
world. Talking Movies covers cinema news from around the world, as well
as delivering reviews of the latest films and exclusive interviews with top
Hollywood and international talent.
Zlatko Vidackovic
Zlatko Vidackovic received a Masters in Journalism degree at Zagreb
University. He was president of the Croatian Film Critics Association between
the years 2003 -2008 and was the Pula Film Festival Artistic Director between
the years 2004-2014. Vice-president of FEDEORA Federation of Film Critics
of Europe and the Mediterranean, and was an editor of Filmovi.hr film
portal. He is the Founder and Program Director of Art-Cinema Metropolis in
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and has been a FIPRESCI jury
member at film festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and San Francisco.
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FILM FESTIVAL REPRESENTATIVES
Albert Wiederspiel Filmfest Hamburg- Director,
Germany
April Dequito Cebu International Documentary
Film Festival- Festival Director, Philippines
Ariana Cohen-Halberstam Israel Film Center at
the JCC in Manhattan - Program Associate, USA
Carole Zabar Other Israel Film Festival
Founder, USA
Charles Zrihen ISRATIM- Director, France
Dan Chyutin JFilm: Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film
Festival - Contributing Programmer, USA
Dan Grandr Stockholm Jewish Film Festival-
Director of board, Sweden
Dan Muggia Pitigliani Kolnoa Festival - Artistic
Director, Israel
Isaac Zablocki Israel Film Center at the JCC in
Manhattan- Director, USA
Isidoro Hamui Festival Cine Judio
Director, Mexico
Judy Ironside UK Jewish Film- Founder and
Executive Director, UK
Karin Rywkind Segal DOCAVIV-Program Manager,
Israel
Lior Zalmanson Print Screen Festival, Israel
Mark Achar Festival Internacional de Cine Judio
de Mxico- Communications and Social Manager,
Mexico
Meir Fenigstein Israel Film Festival- Founder &
Executive Director, USA
Nicola Galliner Jewish Film Festival Berlin &
Potsdam Director, Germany
Odelia Haroush SERET Israeli Film Festival London -
Founder, UK
Olivia Antsis Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
Director, USA
Patty Hochmann SERET Israeli Film Festival
London- Founder, UK
Ravit Turjeman Israel Film Center at the JCC in
Manhattan - Program Associate, USA
Roni Shamiss Tel Aviv Student Film Festival-
Director, Israel
Ronny Fellus Cinema Italia & PKF Director, Italy
Sascha Lara Bleuler DOCAVIV, Cannes -Semaine
de la critique Cannes- Locarno - Selection
Committee, Israel
Sinai Abt DOCAVIV- Artistic Director, Israel
Talia Bernstein Tel Aviv Student Film Festival-
Director, Israel
Tony Jassen Seattle Jewish Film Festival- Festival
Representative, USA
Walter Elias Twin Cities JFF Co-Chair, USA
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Alina Rebel kinolampa.ru editor in chief, Russia

Alon Hadar Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel
Amir Bogen YNET, Israel
Andreas Schneitter, Tachles Magazine,
Switzerland
Ayelet Dekel Israel Midnight East, Israel
Barry Davis Jerusalem Post, Israel
Batsheba Ringel Educational TV23, Israel
Benjamin Tovias Yediot Ahronoth, Israel
Christian Valtanen Arvotuotanto Ky, Finland
Dorit Gvili Bauman bar Rivnai, Israel
Eric Goldman Filmmaker Magazine, USA
Gad Abittan independent French journalist,
France
Giuliana Mucciante Independent Media Travel
Writer, Italy
Hannah Brown Jerusalem Post, Israel
Hans-Christian Roessler FAZ, Israel
Ido Rosen, Dcampus Israel
Jean-Michel Rykner Government Press Office,
Israel
Jodi Rudoren the New York Times, USA
Jordan Hoffman Times of Israel, Israel
Judy Lash Balint JNS.org, Israel
Judy Maltz Haaretz , Israel
Lasse Jensen Krystalbilleder, Israel
Lea Shklar Channel 20, Israel
Lia Levin City Mouse, Israel
Liliana Fridman Voice of America- Assistant
Correspondent, Israel
Linda Gradstein Jewish Standard & Ergo Media,
USA
Matan Shiram Globes, Israel
Meirav Shaked Taasiya.com, Israel
Moti Shklar Channel 20, Israel
Naomi Alon Saloona, Israel
Natalia Irmin Um cultura, Israel
Nathalie Hamou Le Film Franais, Israel
Nirit Anderman Haaretz, Israel
Ofer Liebergall Srita blog, Israel
Ricki Rosen Corbis Images, Israel
Ron Fogel Seret, Israel
Tal Barkay channel 20, Israel
Tal Kra-Oz Tablet Magazine, Israel
Tamar Drachli Taasiya.com, Israel
Tom Madar Onlife, Israel
Uri Klein Haaretz, Israel
Yael Kobbie Channel 20, Israel
Yael Shuv Timeout Tel Aviv, Israel
Yair Raveh Cinemascope, Israel
Yoad Earon Taasiya.com, Israel
Ziva Postec Journalists association, Israel

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