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Blue Box
The Jewish National Fund’s Blue Boxes were part of a successful fundraising campaign to support the purchase of land in Palestine. Joseph Weits, the filmmaker’s grandfather, was the man who orchestrated the acquisition and expropriation of Palestinian lands. Weits’s private diaries reveal an uncomfortable truth.
Festivals and Awards:
HotDocs, Toronto, Canada, 2021; Encounters Documentary Film Festival, South Africa, 2021; Docaviv Festival - Israeli Competition, Tel-Aviv Israel, 2021
Director: Michal Weits
Producer: Assaf Amir, Ina Fichman, Eric Goossens, Frederik Nicolai, Uri Smoly
Production Company: Norma Productions, Intuitive Pictures, Off-World
Cinematographer: Daniel Kedem, Avner Shahaf, Daniel Miller
Editor: Doron Djerassi, Erez Laufer
Soundtrack Editor: Benoit Dame
Original Soundtrack: Benoit Charest
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, yesDocu, Ted Rogers Documentary Fund, NHK, CBC/Radio Canada, Cultural Administration, Ministry of Culture and Sport - The Israel Film Council, KNOWLEDGE NETWORK, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Fund, CANVAS, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, VPRO, Israel Film Center Fund, RTS , The Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts, SODEC, Canada Media Fund
Colourist / Online Editor: Julien Alix
Script: Michal Weits
Distributor: Cinephil
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: קופסה כחולה
Category: Aliyah / Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Zionism
Tag Words: expropriation grandfather Jewish National Fund JNF land palestine Zionism
The Jewish National Fund’s Blue Boxes were part of a successful fundraising campaign to support the purchase of land in Palestine. Joseph Weits, the filmmaker’s grandfather, was the man who orchestrated the acquisition and expropriation of Palestinian lands. Weits’s private diaries reveal an uncomfortable truth.
Festivals and Awards:
HotDocs, Toronto, Canada, 2021; Encounters Documentary Film Festival, South Africa, 2021; Docaviv Festival - Israeli Competition, Tel-Aviv Israel, 2021
Director: Michal Weits
Producer: Assaf Amir, Ina Fichman, Eric Goossens, Frederik Nicolai, Uri Smoly
Production Company: Norma Productions, Intuitive Pictures, Off-World
Cinematographer: Daniel Kedem, Avner Shahaf, Daniel Miller
Editor: Doron Djerassi, Erez Laufer
Soundtrack Editor: Benoit Dame
Original Soundtrack: Benoit Charest
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, yesDocu, Ted Rogers Documentary Fund, NHK, CBC/Radio Canada, Cultural Administration, Ministry of Culture and Sport - The Israel Film Council, KNOWLEDGE NETWORK, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Fund, CANVAS, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, VPRO, Israel Film Center Fund, RTS , The Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts, SODEC, Canada Media Fund
Colourist / Online Editor: Julien Alix
Script: Michal Weits
Distributor: Cinephil
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: קופסה כחולה
Category: Aliyah / Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Zionism
Tag Words: expropriation grandfather Jewish National Fund JNF land palestine Zionism
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