$120,000 of prizes were handed out at the ceremony at the new Sam Spiegel building.
Tommaso Landucci and Damiano Femfert’s Italian drama Children Of The Monkey won the top prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival Industry Days, hosted on Saturday, July 15 on the rooftop of the new Sam Spiegel building in the city.
The film, about a father who forms a stronger bond with his athletic nephew than with his severely disabled son, took the $50,000 Grand Prize from the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl), which organised the event in partnership with Jff.
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Tommaso Landucci and Damiano Femfert’s Italian drama Children Of The Monkey won the top prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival Industry Days, hosted on Saturday, July 15 on the rooftop of the new Sam Spiegel building in the city.
The film, about a father who forms a stronger bond with his athletic nephew than with his severely disabled son, took the $50,000 Grand Prize from the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl), which organised the event in partnership with Jff.
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- 7/17/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Further new projects include In The Land Of Limpopo by Gur Bentwich and post-war drama Wild Animals by Yona Rozenkier.
The next film from award-winning Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid will be Yes! – one of five features in to receive fresh investment from the Israel Film Fund.
The director of Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes jury prize winner Ahed’s Knee is in pre-production on the feature, and has received NIS2.2m from the Israel Film Fund.
Locally titled Ken!, Lapid’s fifth feature revolves around a character named Y. He decides that what takes real courage is not saying “no,...
The next film from award-winning Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid will be Yes! – one of five features in to receive fresh investment from the Israel Film Fund.
The director of Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes jury prize winner Ahed’s Knee is in pre-production on the feature, and has received NIS2.2m from the Israel Film Fund.
Locally titled Ken!, Lapid’s fifth feature revolves around a character named Y. He decides that what takes real courage is not saying “no,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The 34th Israel Film Festival Los Angeles has confirmed its line-up for this year’s edition, which will be held entirely online for the first time.
Running December 13 – 27, the fest will screen 23 features, including two U.S. premieres, Israel’s Oscar submission this year, Asia, as well as a number of past Ophir award winners. The event will also host Q&As after each film with talent.
Asia opens the festival having recently won Best Film at this year’s Ophir Awards, Israel’s top film awards, which automatically makes it the Oscar contender for 2021. The film also won Ophirs for Best Actress, Supporting Actress and Cinematography.
The festival will present its 2020 Iff Lifetime Achievement Award to Meir Feningstein, the event’s founder and executive director. It will also screen concert documentary Poogy / Kaveret 2013 Reunion Concert, centered on the band for which Feningstein is the drummer.
“As the world faces enormous disruption and loss,...
Running December 13 – 27, the fest will screen 23 features, including two U.S. premieres, Israel’s Oscar submission this year, Asia, as well as a number of past Ophir award winners. The event will also host Q&As after each film with talent.
Asia opens the festival having recently won Best Film at this year’s Ophir Awards, Israel’s top film awards, which automatically makes it the Oscar contender for 2021. The film also won Ophirs for Best Actress, Supporting Actress and Cinematography.
The festival will present its 2020 Iff Lifetime Achievement Award to Meir Feningstein, the event’s founder and executive director. It will also screen concert documentary Poogy / Kaveret 2013 Reunion Concert, centered on the band for which Feningstein is the drummer.
“As the world faces enormous disruption and loss,...
- 11/30/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Tim Story is in talks to direct Kevin Hart in “Night Wolf,” Michael Moore calls off this year’s Traverse City Film Festival, and New York’s Israel Film Center Festival goes virtual.
Director Attached
Stx Films is in final talks for director-producer Tim Story to re-team with Kevin Hart on the superhero comedy “Night Wolf.”
Story collaborated with Hart on both “Ride Along” movies and the two “Think Like a Man” titles. Hart came on to the “Night Wolf” project last year and will star and produce through his HartBeat Productions.
“Night Wolf,” written by “Detective Pikachu” screenwriters Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, follows Hart’s character meeting his future father-in-law for the first time only to discover he is secretly the superhero known as the Night Wolf.
Should the deal make, Story will direct and produce through his production company, The Story Company.
Director Attached
Stx Films is in final talks for director-producer Tim Story to re-team with Kevin Hart on the superhero comedy “Night Wolf.”
Story collaborated with Hart on both “Ride Along” movies and the two “Think Like a Man” titles. Hart came on to the “Night Wolf” project last year and will star and produce through his HartBeat Productions.
“Night Wolf,” written by “Detective Pikachu” screenwriters Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, follows Hart’s character meeting his future father-in-law for the first time only to discover he is secretly the superhero known as the Night Wolf.
Should the deal make, Story will direct and produce through his production company, The Story Company.
- 5/11/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Other winners included Ladj Ly’s Les Miserables for best international feature.
At its awards ceremony last night (August 1), Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) presented Yaron Shani’s Love Trilogy: Chained with the Haggiag award for best Israeli feature while Ladj Ly’s Les Miserables won the Jerusalem Foundation award for best international feature.
Chained follows an Israeli policeman whose marriage and masculinity are threatened after he is accused of sexual assault by two teenage boys. A Berlinale premiere in February, it’s the second film in Shani’s Love Trilogy following Stripped, which first showed in Venice Horizons last September.
At its awards ceremony last night (August 1), Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) presented Yaron Shani’s Love Trilogy: Chained with the Haggiag award for best Israeli feature while Ladj Ly’s Les Miserables won the Jerusalem Foundation award for best international feature.
Chained follows an Israeli policeman whose marriage and masculinity are threatened after he is accused of sexual assault by two teenage boys. A Berlinale premiere in February, it’s the second film in Shani’s Love Trilogy following Stripped, which first showed in Venice Horizons last September.
- 8/2/2019
- by Edna Fainaru
- ScreenDaily
From Birdly to Jesus Vr, Screen’s editorial team pick 10 of the best virtual reality experiences from the festival circuit ahead of the Vr Creative Summit in December.
Having been widely dubbed the Year of Virtual Reality by industry figures and press alike, 2016 has been a watershed moment for the emerging medium.
Film festivals across the globe hosted Vr showcases this year, incorporating Vr films into their programme and markets, many doing so in a serious way for the first time.
Starting at January’s Sundance Film Festival, which hosted Vr experiences including The Martian and Notes On Blindness in its New Frontier programme, Vr remained a consistent presence through Tribeca’s Virtual Arcade in April, Cannes’ Marche Next programme in May, and Pop Vr at Tiff in September, alongside more medium-sized festivals such as Sheffield Doc/Fest, Jerusalem and Sarajevo.
Vr at this year’s Cannes Film Festival
Compiling choices from across those festivals and further...
Having been widely dubbed the Year of Virtual Reality by industry figures and press alike, 2016 has been a watershed moment for the emerging medium.
Film festivals across the globe hosted Vr showcases this year, incorporating Vr films into their programme and markets, many doing so in a serious way for the first time.
Starting at January’s Sundance Film Festival, which hosted Vr experiences including The Martian and Notes On Blindness in its New Frontier programme, Vr remained a consistent presence through Tribeca’s Virtual Arcade in April, Cannes’ Marche Next programme in May, and Pop Vr at Tiff in September, alongside more medium-sized festivals such as Sheffield Doc/Fest, Jerusalem and Sarajevo.
Vr at this year’s Cannes Film Festival
Compiling choices from across those festivals and further...
- 10/13/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The festival is showcasing virtual reality for the first time, including the first raft of Israeli Vr projects.
Jerusalem Film Festival this year hosts its first virtual reality (Vr) strand, showcasing projects from Israeli film-makers. Six films are on show in a dedicated space on the second floor of Jerusalem Cinematheque, until July 14.
Although technology is considered to be one of Israel’s most developed sectors — the country’s spend on technological and scientific research in relation to its Gdp is the second highest in the world — its film industry has yet to embrace Vr, despite the medium’s growing presence on the world cinema stage. At Cannes this year, Vr was the focus of the Marché du Film’s Next programme, while festivals including Sundance and Tribeca also placed heavy emphasis on Vr in 2016.
A four-day interactive storytelling event held in Tel Aviv in March this year — Steamer Salon, which featured...
Jerusalem Film Festival this year hosts its first virtual reality (Vr) strand, showcasing projects from Israeli film-makers. Six films are on show in a dedicated space on the second floor of Jerusalem Cinematheque, until July 14.
Although technology is considered to be one of Israel’s most developed sectors — the country’s spend on technological and scientific research in relation to its Gdp is the second highest in the world — its film industry has yet to embrace Vr, despite the medium’s growing presence on the world cinema stage. At Cannes this year, Vr was the focus of the Marché du Film’s Next programme, while festivals including Sundance and Tribeca also placed heavy emphasis on Vr in 2016.
A four-day interactive storytelling event held in Tel Aviv in March this year — Steamer Salon, which featured...
- 7/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Documentary festival to focus on
DocAviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalized the selection for its 17th edition (May 7-16).
With a solid reputation to defend, the festival will kick off with Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winner Citizenfour, whose theme, the onging Edward Snowden saga, fits one of the festival’s main concerns - “(un)Free World”.
Some 13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali Film Competition.
A total 11 world premieres are competing for The Sarah and Michael Sela Prize
The $18,000 (Nis 70,000) award is the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
Some 75 Israeli films have been submitted to the Israeli competition. Well known names among the contenders include: Reuven Brodsky with 7 Days in St. Petersburg, whose previous film Home Movie has won the 2012 Docaviv competition, Avigail Sperber produced Girsa De’Yankuta by Noa Roth, Censored Voices by Mor Loushy which premiered in Sundance and Twilight of a Life, which...
DocAviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalized the selection for its 17th edition (May 7-16).
With a solid reputation to defend, the festival will kick off with Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winner Citizenfour, whose theme, the onging Edward Snowden saga, fits one of the festival’s main concerns - “(un)Free World”.
Some 13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali Film Competition.
A total 11 world premieres are competing for The Sarah and Michael Sela Prize
The $18,000 (Nis 70,000) award is the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
Some 75 Israeli films have been submitted to the Israeli competition. Well known names among the contenders include: Reuven Brodsky with 7 Days in St. Petersburg, whose previous film Home Movie has won the 2012 Docaviv competition, Avigail Sperber produced Girsa De’Yankuta by Noa Roth, Censored Voices by Mor Loushy which premiered in Sundance and Twilight of a Life, which...
- 4/2/2015
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has unveiled its 2015 line-up which includes films representing 54 countries, 23 world premieres and 53 U.S. premieres. The U.S. premiere of Niki Caro’s McFarland USA will close out the 30th fest. Based on the 1987 true story and starring Kevin Costner and Maria Bello, the film follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California’s farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White (Costner), a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. The unlikely band of runners overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring legacy as well.
The festival runs from January 27-February 7.
Below is the list of World and U.S. Premiere films followed by the list of titles by sidebar categories.
World Premieres
A Better You, USA
Directed by Matt Walsh
Cast: Brian Huskey,...
The festival runs from January 27-February 7.
Below is the list of World and U.S. Premiere films followed by the list of titles by sidebar categories.
World Premieres
A Better You, USA
Directed by Matt Walsh
Cast: Brian Huskey,...
- 1/8/2015
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
A self-acknowledged "showcase for Academy Award frontrunners," the Santa Barbara International Film Festival is often overlooked for the actual films that earn it festival status. An amalgamation of international discoveries and ’merica’s circuit highlights, the Sbiff curates a week of best-of-the-best to pair with their star-praising. The 2015 edition offers another expansive selection, bookended by two films that aren’t on any radars just yet. Sbiff will open with "Desert Dancer," producer Richard Raymond’s directorial debut. Starring Reece Ritchie and Frieda Pinto, the drama follows a group of friends who wave off the harsh political climate of Iran’s 2009 presidential election in favor of forming a dance team, picking up moves from Michael Jackson, Gene Kelly and Rudolf Nureyev thanks to the magic of YouTube. The festival will close with "McFarland, USA," starring Kevin Costner and Maria Bello. Telling the 1987 true story of a Latino high school’s underdog cross-country team,...
- 1/8/2015
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
Israeli crime thriller 'Big Bad Wolves' is currently running on various VOD platforms but if you're eager to get your hands on a good old fashioned physical copy of the much lauded foreign feature then you'll be happy to know its coming to Blu-ray and DVD. Magnolia Home Entertainment will be unleashing the movie into Us stores from 22 April which will comes complete with a making of featurette, a look at 'Big Bad Wolves' feature plus the theatrical trailer. 'Big Bad Wolves' stars Guy Adler, Lior Ashkenazi, Dvir Benedek, Gur Bentwich, Tzahi Grad, Rotem Keinan and Nati Kluger. You can check out the DVD artwork below....
- 2/18/2014
- Horror Asylum
Four delightful new and alternative posters celebrating the VOD release of writer/director duo Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado's excellent 'Big Bad Woves' have arrived our way. Magnet Releasing dropped the Israeli crime thriller On Demand earlier this month which you can check out right now. And at least only half of the new assets feature Quentin Tarantino's positive quotation. A film of this quality should be able to stand up on its own. 'Big Bad Wolves' stars Guy Adler, Lior Ashkenazi, Dvir Benedek, Gur Bentwich, Tzahi Grad, Rotem Keinan and Nati Kluger. Check out the new selection of one-sheets below....
- 1/30/2014
- Horror Asylum
Israeli crime thriller 'Big Bad Wolves' has been the subject of plenty of praise recently including a quite defining quotation from one of the best filmmakers of all time. 'Djanjo Unchained's Quentin Tarantino has gone on record to state this is in fact the 'best film of the year' and the project, from writer/director duo Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, will get all sorts of attention upon its stateside release. Magnolia Pictures will unleash the movie into Us theatres and On Demand on 17 January 2014 and here's a brand new one-sheet from the feature which manages to utilise the Tarantino quote quite effectively. 'Big Bad Wolves' stars Guy Adler, Lior Ashkenazi, Dvir Benedek, Gur Bentwich, Tzahi Grad, Rotem Keinan and Nati Kluger. Check out the poster below....
- 12/10/2013
- Horror Asylum
Off-White Lies
Directed by Maya Kenig
Written by Maya Kenig and Dana Diment
Israel/France, 2011
As a parent, you can’t prepare the world for your children; the best you can do is prepare your children for the world. So what happens when a homeless, estranged father readopts his teenage daughter amongst the backdrop of a war?
Although from wildly different genres, Maya Kenig’s Off-White Lies shares many thematic concepts with Luc Besson’s The Professional. Both are about men that are unqualified to be parental guardians, both by nature and by circumstance, but both have an adolescent girl thrust into their care. In fact, both girls seem to be avid botanists, trying to nurture plants in environments that are inhospitable for themselves (this is, of course, a metaphor).
After living in California with her mother for most of her life, 13-year old Libby (Elya Inbar) is...
Directed by Maya Kenig
Written by Maya Kenig and Dana Diment
Israel/France, 2011
As a parent, you can’t prepare the world for your children; the best you can do is prepare your children for the world. So what happens when a homeless, estranged father readopts his teenage daughter amongst the backdrop of a war?
Although from wildly different genres, Maya Kenig’s Off-White Lies shares many thematic concepts with Luc Besson’s The Professional. Both are about men that are unqualified to be parental guardians, both by nature and by circumstance, but both have an adolescent girl thrust into their care. In fact, both girls seem to be avid botanists, trying to nurture plants in environments that are inhospitable for themselves (this is, of course, a metaphor).
After living in California with her mother for most of her life, 13-year old Libby (Elya Inbar) is...
- 5/9/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
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