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Dear members of the foreign press and producers,
As part of the NFCT’s efforts during this time, we have created a Google spreadsheet containing the details of local film and TV crew available for your needs.
The spreadsheet will be updated on a regular basis https://bit.ly/3PRFXTq.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or queries.
Good luck and stay safe,
The NFCT, info@nfct.org.il
יוצרות ויוצרים יקרים,
בימים אלה צוותים רבים מחו”ל מגיעים ארצה וזקוקים לסיוע של צוותים מקומיים בתהליך ההפקה (צלמים/ות, במאים/ות, מקליטים/ות, מפיקי/ות שטח ועוד), מסתבר שהחיבורים לצוותים נעשים דרך היכרות אישית ויוזמות מקומיות, ויש עוד הרבה יוצרים שיושבים כרגע ללא עבודה.
חשבנו שנכון לייצר רשימה של יוצרים ואנשי צוות עם פרטי קשר באנגלית. אנחנו מזמינים אתכם/ן בעלי מקצוע המעוניינים להירשם בטבלה שיצרנו, בקישור: https://bit.ly/3PRFXTq.
הקרן תפיץ ככל שתוכל, אך גם אתם/ן מוזמנים/ות להפיץ לגורמים רלוונטיים.
הקובץ פתוח לעריכה – אנא הקפידו למלא את פרטי הקשר בשורה שלכם ולא לשנות פרטים בשורות של נרשמים/ות אחרים/ות.
חשוב למלא כמה שיותר פרטים גם לגבי זמינות, ולעדכן את הפרטים בטופס כשהנתונים והתאריכים משתנים כדי שזה יהיה כמה שיותר מעודכן!
שמרו על עצמכם/ן,
צוות הקרן
info@nfct.org.il
NFCT Narrative Greenhouse Women Program
for the Development of Feature-Length Films by Female Filmmakers
We are happy to report that the first Narrative Greenhouse Women Program, in collaboration with the Leir Foundation and Mifal Hapayis, ended in a festive pitching forum that took place on November 28, 2019, at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. During the event, the participating filmmakers presented their film projects to a panel made up of Israeli film executives: Ms. Lisa Shiloach-Uzrad (The Israel Film Fund), Ms. Sharon Shamir (The Gesher Multicultural Film Fund), Mr. Yoav Abramovich (the Rabinovich Film Fund), Ms. Adi Ezroni (Keshet International), Ms. Mor Eldar (YES TV), Mr. Roee Reshef-Maliach (Mifal Hapayis), Mr. Ron Goldman (NFCT).
Each filmmaker presented her project orally and then screened a sample scene – shot and edited in the framework of the program. Through these scenes, the filmmakers were able to showcase to the panel members and to the audience a glimpse into the world they are imagining, their visual concept and protagonists and thus strengthen the story and their vision conveyed through the oral pitch.
The event has already led to some potential cooperation between several filmmakers and producers, who were present during the pitching forum and there has been interest from some of the broadcasters present as well.
Over the past year, the ten filmmakers selected to the program developed film projects on a wide array of themes such as motherhood, mother-daughter relationships, lesbian relationships, grief, feminism in the Ultra-Orthodox society, female sexuality, the sanctity of the Jewish genes and more.
After the fourth and final seminar, the program’s team, led by Artistic Director Ms. Michal Aviad and program mentors Lior Nesher, Suha Arraf and Efrat Korem, continued to support the participants’ work – shooting and editing their scenes and preparing for the pitching forum.
The NFCT provided modest grants for the shooting phase and provided post-production assistance – film editors, editing rooms and sound editing services. The wonderful scenes produced through the program will play a significant part in the continued development process of each filmmaker, moving forward.
Prior to the event, the filmmakers participated in a pitching workshop, led by veteran Israeli producer and, until recently, Head of the Israel Film Fund Mr. Katriel Schory. The filmmakers pitched their projects to Schory and screened their sample scenes and he provided in depth feedback, which the filmmakers used to hone their final presentations.
The pitching forum impressed everyone who attended and everyone agreed it was a unique event and that the high standards the NFCT posed made for sweeping presentations and the overall sense there are nine wonderful projects in the making. People also mentioned the powerful effect hearing such important stories from a feminist and female point of view had on them.
We wish the filmmakers continued fruitful work on their important projects, and wholeheartedly thank our partners and supporters for enabling this wonderful program to exist!
The second program cycle will commence in early 2020 and we are proud to announce our newest partners – the Israel Film Fund – that will be joining forces with us to support the next cohort.
The Greenhouse Women Staff, NFCT
“Even with all of these storytelling advantages, there’s always the need for institutional support. And especially for documentary films and docuseries, that’s where film funds like the New Fund for Cinema and TV (NFCT) play such an essential role…if you scan the credits on award-winning films in the past years like Waltz With Bashir, Forever Pure and The Flat to more recent fare like Mr.Gaga, Fence Your Best and The Devil Next Door, you can identify NFCT as one of the early champions”. [Nancy Strichman, The Times of Israel].
To read more on The Times of Israel website press here
It’s nearly the end of the fiscal year and there are many easy ways to get involved with the NFCT and join us in sparking social change through excellent Israeli films!
Donations are tax-deductible:
NFCT Israel Gives Campaign
NFCT CauseMatch donate page
Or contact Ms. Irit Shimrat, Director of International Relations, to learn more about specific projects you can join.
The NFCT would like to congratulate the filmmakers of 17 NFCT-supported films that will premiere at the upcoming Docaviv IFF and is proud to be part of the success of Israeli documentary filmmaking.
Good luck!
May 23-June 1, 2019 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and other venues across Tel Aviv
Israel Competition
Directors: Yonatan Nir, Dani Menkin // Producers: Yonatan Nir, Dani Menkin, Nancy Spileberg, Ori Eisen, Mirit Eisen, Roger Fishman
The film follows the journey award-winning nature photographer Amos Nachum takes in pursuit of the one photo he has yet to achieve – swimming underwater with a polar bear and capturing it face-to-face on film.
Screening times:
Thursday May 23 – 5:00pm
Thursday May 30 – 3:15pm
Saturday June 1 – 10:00am
Directors and Producers: Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia
The film follows three successful Chinese women who despite their thriving careers still live with the derogatory label: Leftover Women – a term used in China to describe educated, professional women in their mid-20s who are not married.
Screening times:
Monday May 27 – 9:15pm
Thursday May 30 – 10:05am
Saturday June 1 – 4:15pm
Director: Shay Fogelman // Producer: Assaf Amir
Shay Fogelman, reporter for Haaretz Newspaper, investigates the story of Yehoshua – a West Bank settler, who shot a Palestinian taxi driver and is being accused of manslaughter. He is put under house arrest to await his verdict, but on the day of the verdict, he never shows up.
Screening times:
Sunday May 26 – 6:45pm
Friday May 31 – 5:15pm
Director: Karin Kainer // Producers: Levi Zini, Karin Kainer, Avishai Peretz
It is only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, a closed Orthodox city, to Tel Aviv’s shore. But for the women going there it’s light years away. “The Kosher Beach” is a gated and secluded 100 meter-long strip of beach with dedicated days for women and men to bath separately, only a wooden fence separates between the freedom of the gay beach and them.
Screening times:
Tuesday May 28 – 6:30pm
Friday May 31 – 10:00am
Directors: Yael Shachar, Sharon Yaish // Producers: Haggai Arad, Elad Peleg
When Chile was 22, she was kidnapped from a pub in Hungary and sold to a group of Israelis who trafficked for prostitution. Today, twenty years later, Chile is a different woman, one who has managed to get out of the drug abuse cycle, celebrating 10 years of sobriety, and volunteering at the Levinsky Clinic to try and help women on the street. When the Ministry of Interior in Israel refuses to give Chile a resident certificate and to believe that she is a victim of trafficking in women, she goes looking for her kidnappers to obtain proof.
Screening times:
Sunday May 26 – 9:00pm
Saturday June 1 – 7:15pm
Director: Juna Sulieman // Producers: Laura Samara Hawa, Juna Sulieman, Nicholas Jacob – Co Producer, Ahlam Canaan – Co Producer
Unable to accept her slow and meaningless death, Hiam Jarjoura (85), a perpetual housewife and a hopelessly devoted mother – resorts to unexpected encounters with her own past, and a gradual flirt with death, all of which lead her to look for light in a world that she so detests.
Screening times:
Saturday May 25 – 2:15pm
Sunday May 26 – 7:15pm
Director and Producer: Barak Heymann
Goddamned communist. Internal enemy. Privileged Tel Aviv Ashkenazi.
It seems Dov Khenin has been called almost everything during his 13-year tenure as Member of Knesset for the Jewish-Arab party ‘Hadash’. Comrade Dov is a surprising, thought-provoking portrait of a unique politician, who refuses to give up even as reality deals him one cruel blow after another.
Screening times:
Saturday May 25 – 8:30pm
Wednesday May 29 – 2:15pm
Saturday June 1 – 5:45pm
Director: Itamar Chen // Producers: Yoav Roeh, Aurit Zamir
(support for development stage)
Ibrahim Yassin was born in a small village in Lebanon and was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps as a farmer and shepherd, but fate had something else in store. The film sketches an intimate portrait of a man who through tribulations, coincidence and choice became one of Israel’s leading spies.
Screening times:
Thursday May 23 – 9:45pm
Friday May 31 – 11:45am
Student Film Competition
Director: Maya Klar // Producers: Uri Yerushalmi, Jessica Krecisz | The Steve Tisch School of Film
In a luxurious furniture store in the small town of Weimar, human beings are trying out Bauhaus chairs. In-between customers, signs of life re-emerge from the past.
Screening times:
Thursday May 23 – 3:30pm – Student Competition 2 – Free entry
Monday May 27 – 7:45pm –
Director: Neta Shaked // Producer: Shmueli Cohen | Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School
A peek down the corridors of a Jerusalem funeral home. This rare look at an unknown territory follows one cadaver as it arrives at the funeral home, and the rituals that ensue.
Screening times:
Thursday May 23 – 3:30pm – Student Competition 2 – Free entry
Panorama
Director: Tamara Mamon // Producer: Assaf Amir
Omar, Muhammad and Yazan are three 12-year-olds from Lod. The boys are in their last year of elementary school, beginning to confront the challenges of life. Ella, a Jewish woman who emigrated from the former Soviet Union founds a choir in their school and invites them to a safe and fantastic environment that will challenge the stark reality awaiting beyond the classroom walls
Screening times:
Tuesday May 28 – 9:30pm
Saturday June 1 – 4:00pm
The Ashram Children: I am No Body, I have No Body
Director: Jonathan Ofek // Producers: Jonathan Ofek, Itamar Luria
For 20 years, Jonathan, the filmmaker grew up in Jerusalem and in an Ashram in India, which he had to keep secret. 20 years (and a lot of therapy) later, the director sets on a journey to understand the secret he was forced to keep about India throughout his entire life, the effect it has on him even now.
Screening times:
Wednesday May 29 – 7:45pm
Saturday June 1 – 2:15pm
Director: Michal Aronzon // Producers: Adi Bar Yossef, Michal Aronzon, Co-Producer: Astar Goldberg
The film follows Yudale, a religious youth from the settlements, as he experiences a crisis of faith. As he receives a camera from Michal, a Tel Aviv director who teaches him how to film,
Yehuda documents his life on the line between the settlement Tko’a and Tel Aviv: his final conversations with his dying father—Rabbi Menachem Fruman– their joint study, and saying goodbye to him. When his father dies, Yehuda chooses to take off his kippah.
Screening times:
Saturday May 25 – 2:15pm
Sunday May 26 – 7:15pm
Directors: Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir, Shani Rozanes // Producers: Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir, Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Christian Beetz
Based on these never-before seen materials, testimonies of supporters and opponents and rare archival footage, GOLDA tells the story of Golda Meir’s dramatic premiership – from her surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as “queen of the Jewish people”, to her tragic and lonely demise.
Screening times:
Saturday May 25 – 4:15pm
Wednesday May 29 – 12:00pm
Friday May 31 – 12:30pm
Director: Hadas Ayalon // Producers: Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait
(support in the development stage through the Visiting Card Program)
The film tells the story of six Gay men that were born in the days of the establishment of the State of Israel. Their stories serve as the film’s background for the depiction of the clandestine and undocumented lives of homosexuals in Israel during the 1960-70s
Screening times:
Thursday May 23 – 9:30pm
Friday May 31 – 2:00pm
Arts and Culture
Director: Rafael Balulu // Producer: Yair Qedar
She lived in Cairo, Paris and New York, but died in an old age home in Givatayim. She was admired and beautiful, but only few knew her during her life and even less after she had passed away. Director Rafael Balulu traces the footsteps of Levantine thinker and author Jacqueline Kahanoff and not only draws a portrait of this impressive thinker, but also discovers the fate of Levantine identity in Israel as a cultural option for pride and and honor.
Screening times:
Wednesday May 29 – 8:30pm at Bialik Square – Free Entry!
Friday May 31 – 12:15pm
Director: Ofir Feldman // Producers: Uri Yerushalmi, Jessica Krecisz | The Steve Tisch School Of Film & Tv Tel Aviv University
Three characters produce a portrait of the Siemens workers’ neighborhood in Berlin, which became an open museum of the International Style buildings. Their stories of detachment reveal the transformation of the German working class family within the utopian habitat for which it was created.
Screening times:
Monday May 27 – 7:45pm –
Established in 1993, the New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT) is an Israeli non-governmental organization positioned at the intersection of cinema and social change. Through our financial and professional support to filmmakers, we cultivate artistic excellence and contribute to the creation of outstanding films on a broad array of issues.
Since its founding, the NFCT has supported the production of hundreds of documentaries, fiction films, and television dramas. We have initiated innovative international programs such as Greenhouse, while nurturing the artistic and professional development of talented filmmakers from diverse communities.
We believe in the enormous power of cinema to engage, educate and inspire social change. NFCT films help promote the values of tolerance and social justice while enriching the cultural landscape. Through our outreach and education programs, we expose our films to wide audiences in Israel and throughout the world.
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