You Gotta Make A Movie Outta This
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You Gotta Make A Movie Outta This
Following a newspaper advertisement: “Wanted, for a documentary film – people with a true story that has to be made into a movie”, the director finds hundreds of personal, moving, surprising and incredible, happy and sad stories. The best of these stories find their way into this film, which attempts to link between documentary and feature filmmaking, between the personal and the universal, and between reality and dreams.
Festivals and Awards:
Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2000; St. Petersburg Film Festival, Russia, 2001; Input, Cape Town, South Africa, 2001
Director: Eyal Halfon
Producer: Eyal Halfon
Cinematographer: Micha Livne, Istzik Portal
Editor: Einat Glaser-Zarhin
Original Soundtrack: Yoni Rechter
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Reshet TV
Cast: Zvika Hadar, Sinia Ben-David, Vladimir Friedman, Orli Gerty, Gad Keinar
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: אתה חייב לעשות מזה סרט
Category: Identity / Israeli Society
Tag Words: Director documentary film newspaper ad universal stories
Following a newspaper advertisement: “Wanted, for a documentary film – people with a true story that has to be made into a movie”, the director finds hundreds of personal, moving, surprising and incredible, happy and sad stories. The best of these stories find their way into this film, which attempts to link between documentary and feature filmmaking, between the personal and the universal, and between reality and dreams.
Festivals and Awards:
Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2000; St. Petersburg Film Festival, Russia, 2001; Input, Cape Town, South Africa, 2001
Director: Eyal Halfon
Producer: Eyal Halfon
Cinematographer: Micha Livne, Istzik Portal
Editor: Einat Glaser-Zarhin
Original Soundtrack: Yoni Rechter
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Reshet TV
Cast: Zvika Hadar, Sinia Ben-David, Vladimir Friedman, Orli Gerty, Gad Keinar
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: אתה חייב לעשות מזה סרט
Category: Identity / Israeli Society
Tag Words: Director documentary film newspaper ad universal stories
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