Visual masterworks from a small office
You have to go one stair down on the Nordau Boulevard for the Mozer Films Ltd. of Yariv Mozer. From his small, dynamic office came masterpieces as the international awards winning documentary, directed by Yariv: My First War, Jerusalem Moments/09 (it left me speechless!!) from artistic-director Yael Perlov and produced by Yael and Yariv, and the soon to be released documentary There Must Be an Other Way, about the Jewish and Arab singers Noa and Mira Awad. On the walls, you will find posters from documentaries made or produced by Yariv and the tables are full with film-boxes, ready to be send to festivals all over the world by Hila, Yair’s charming co-worker. You can feel the vibrations in this place and you know that more award winning documentaries will … Read entire article »
Being there
A long, interesting article I did found in Haaretz Magazine (August 14 ) written by Ariel Hirschfeld about the new movie: Ajami, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. The movie, about a neighborhood in Yafo, won the Wolgin Prize for best feature film this year at the Jerusalem Film Festival and a ‘”honorable mention” at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. The movie is in the race to be send to next year’s Oscar celebrations. … Read entire article »
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Movie about Tel Aviv at Toronto Festival
Danny Lerner‘s new film: Kirot (“Walls”) will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. It will be screened in the so called City to City section, that will feature 10 films focusing on the cinema in Tel Aviv in honor of the city’s 100th anniversary. Kirot stars Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb as two woman living across the hall from each other in an old apartment building in Tel Aviv. The film will be screened in Israel later this year. … Read entire article »
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The 4th LGBT Film Festival
On June the 23rd the 4th Tel Aviv International LGBT Festival: “TLVFest” will kick of with the movie Strella by Greek director Panos H. Koutras. he festival is organized by film director: Yair Hochner. Fifty features and 70 short films will be presented at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and the LGBT Center in the Meir Park (Gan-Meir). The festival will host a tribute to the Mix Brasil Film Festival, considered to be the mayor gay-film festival in South-America. The winning Israeli movie (NIS 3000.- prize) will be sent to participate at the IRIS British Festival. … Read entire article »
Breaking News: Ajami at Cannes Film Festival
We just received the news that the film : Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani received this evening at the Cannes Film Festival: “A Special distinction (special mention) Camera d’Or” (Golden Camera). We just published today on our website an article about this movie! Scandar and Yaron: Mazzaltov!! … Read entire article »
Sources of hope..
An article, full with hope for a better future, I saw last Friday in The New York Times, written by Joan Dupont about the movie Ajami, a neighborhood in Jaffa, that will be screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The movie is directed by Scandor Copti (a Jaffa-born Arab) and Yaron Shani, who is living in Ashdod. … Read entire article »
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“The Bubble”
An interesting article I found May the 14th in the Jerusalem Post, written by David Brinn : The Bubble. In the article movie-maker and resident Gal Uchovsky says: “Tel-Aviv is a big metropolitan city… It’s were everything is happening, especially for younger people who want to create and live in an international, vibrant, open-minded environment – this is the place to go”. [via Jerusalem Post Online] … Read entire article »
Trekkies in Tel Aviv: Unite!
Following a screening in Silicon Valley the techblog TechCrunch organizes a screening of the new Star Trek movie The Future Begins in Tel Aviv, Thursday 21st. For nerds only? ;-) [more at TechCrunch] … Read entire article »
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“Actress, Interrupted”
Herewith an interesting article about the actress Maya Maron, who is living in the beautiful neighborhood of Neve-Tsedek, written by Doron Halutz in Ha’aretz, May 8th/2009. Maya received an Israeli Oscar in the year 2002 for her role in Broken Wings. She grew up in the Balfour Street, a side-street of Allenbey Street. … Read entire article »
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The first color film of Tel Aviv
Herewith the first color film of Tel Aviv, made by an English soldier in the beginning of 1930. On the film (more then 4 minutes) you will see the building-work on the first white Bauhaus-buildings, Herzl Street and the Gymnasium-Herzliya, that was brutally ‘torn down’ by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Allenbey Street, the first Muncipality building on Bialik Square, some nice shots of Tel Aviv beach with the famous ‘Kadar’ -restaurant (a long time ago ‘destroyed’) and the fantastic Mugrabi Cinema on the corner of Allenbey- and Ben-Gurion Street, that was ‘pulled- down’ (this crime was done by 3 CAT-buldozers) in December 1995 and this spot, is until today..a ‘bloody’ parking place!! A crying shame !! The famous rock-singer Arik Einstein said once: “..the Mugrabi cinema in … Read entire article »
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The 11th ‘docaviv’ Film Festival
docaviv, the 11th Tel Aviv Documentary Film Festival will take place from May 5th until May 16th at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, ZOA House and Tel Aviv Port. The festival hosts international, Israeli and students competitions, meetings with film-makers and master classes. The special quest of this year’s festival is German conductor Kurt Masur, who will attend the screening of a film about his live. Tickets and info: 03-624.1797 … Read entire article »
Shield of Solomon, a documentary by Igal Hecht
As we told you, Tel-Aviv has many faces… Around the ‘old’ bus-station, you will find many foreign workers, some are refugies from Dafur, Sudan. Film director Igal Hecht (Chutzpa Productions) made a moving 52 minutes documentary called ‘Shield of Solomon’. It tells you about the thousands of man, woman and children from Dafur who have been killed, in what’s decribed as the first genocide of the 21st century. This new documentary by Igal Hecht (it was screened two weeks ago at the Cape Winelands Film Festival in Cape-Town, South Africa) brings the story of four refugees from Dafur , who have found sanctuary in Israel. The photography is done by Lior Cohen. For more information: www.chutzpaproductions.com … Read entire article »
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Tel Aviv Fever one month old! Time for a present :-D
April 19th, 2009 | 5 Comments
Yes, today [19:30 IL Time ;-) ] it is only one month that Tel Aviv Fever is LIVE. :-D We decided to give you a present, because we are thrilled by your reactions, of which we get most by e-mail and not as a comment, but that is a minor detail ;-) Don’t be afraid to tell us what you think! We thought you would love a video channel with video’s of Tel Aviv Only. So we made you our own Tel Aviv Fever vChannel. You can find it in the upper menu or HERE (which basically both do the same ;-) ) If you know a nice video that is not included yet, tell us, so we can put it there too! ENJOY! … Read entire article »
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