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Beki ProbstBeki Probst is President of the European Film Market. Probst studied law and journalism, and then joined the newspapers Tercuman and Hayat. In 1960 became manager of the Probst-Kinobetriebe. From 1981 to 1988 Probst was the Berlin International Film Festivals delegate for Turkey and Greece. In 1985 she organized a tradeshow for the Locarno International Film Festival. She also served on Locarnos Selection Board until 1995. From 1988 to 2014 Probst was Director of the Film Fair of the Berlin International Film Festival. She renamed the section Film Fair into the European Film Market. Under her management, the European Film Market was established as one of the biggest and most important international film fairs. In addition Probst was Artistic Director of the Geneva Festival Stars de Demain. She has served on the juries of several international film festivals. In 1992 Probst was decorated as Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Cultural Minister.

Makram KhouryMakram Khoury is a Palestinian-Israeli actor. Khoury was the youngest artist and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest artistic honor in the country. He is one of Israels most respected actors, playing in all the major theatres as well as in films and on television. Among his films: Magic Men (for which Khoury won Best Actor Award from the Israeli Film Academy in 2014), The Syrian Bride, and Munich. He studied for three years at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England. He later became involved with the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and the Haifa Municipal Theater, continuing as a member of the latter for twenty years.

Marin KarmitzMarin Karmitz is a French businessman whose career has spanned the French film industry. Karmitz is a director, producer, film distributor, and operator of a chain of cinemas. He attended film school at IDHEC, renamed La Fmis, and worked as a director of photography after graduating. He founded MK2, a production company and movie theater chain, which has specialized in creating, distributing, and screening independent or auteurist cinema, including short films. In 2005, he turned over leadership of the MK2 Company and its theaters to his son, Nathanal. Karmitz has produced over 70 films, among them Certified Copy, (2010) and Krzysztof Kieslowskis Three Colors Trilogy. Karmitz is the director of the films Seven Days Somewhere Else, (1969), Comrades, (1970) and Coup pour coup (1972).

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Guests of Honor

Clara Mamet Clara Mamet born in 1994, is an actress and director, known for The neighbors (2012), Two-Bit waltz (2013), and Phil Spector (2013). Mamet wrote, directed and starred in her first film, Two-Bit waltz, a semi-autobiographical movie with William H. Macy, her mother Rebecca Pigeon, and Jared Gilman. Mamet has also written plays: Paris and The Solvit Kids, the latter of which she co-wrote with Jack Quaid.

David MametDavid Mamet is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. Mamet is the author of numerous plays including oleanna, Glengarry Glen ross, american Buffalo, november, and The anarchist. He has written and directed 10 feature films including Brian De Palmas The untouchables, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, House of Games, Spartan, redbelt and Homicide, which was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won a Screenwriter of the Year award from the London Critics Circle Film Awards. In 1997, his screenplay for Barry Levinsons political satire wag the Dog earned Mamet both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Screenplay. In addition, Mamet has written many novels, novellas, and non-fiction books. Recently, his original film Phil Spector, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, aired on HBO.

Maria HofsttterSince the earliest days of Ulrich Seidls work for the cinema, actress Maria Hofsttter has played an important role. Hofsttters breakthrough came with her award-winning performance as a hitchhiker in Seidls Dog Days (2001). She also played in his next film Import Export (2007). Maria Hofsttter has worked with Austrias leading directors, from Michael Haneke (Time of the wolf) to Michael Glawogger (ant Street). Aside from acting in film and TV, Maria Hofsttter devotes her time to theatre. In January 2014 Maria Hofsttter won the Austrian Film Award for her role in ParaDISE: faith (2012).

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Park chan-wookPark chan-Wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Park is most known for his films Joint Security area, Thirst and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy consisting of 2002s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, oldboy in 2003 and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance in 2005. His films are noted for their immaculate framing and often brutal subject matter. Chan-Wooks films have been shown in many festivals around the world, winning awards from the most important festivals such as Cannes, Venice, and Berlin.

ulrich SeidlUlrich Seidl is an Austrian director, author, and producer, and is the director of numerous award- winning documentaries such as Good news, animal Love, and Models. Seidls first fiction feature Dog Days won the Grand Jury Special Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. In 2003 he founded Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion, where he produced Import Export, which premiered in competition at Cannes. Seidl followed with his Paradise Trilogy: three films about three women, made in four years. The films celebrated their premiere in the competitions of the worlds most important film festivals.

5Spike JonzeSpike Jonze is earnest, calm, thoughtful, artistic, lonely, private and a bunch of other things that I dont want from a trickster. From the skate-punk photographer who pretended he was the leader of a group of awful local break dancers, who co-produces the Jackass movies, who is the creative director of the gonzo-bro news brand Vice, who was a brilliant actor in Three Kings before deciding he was too cool for acting, who directed the weirdness that is Being John Malkovich and adaptation, who fought bitterly with his studio to turn where the wild Things are into a kids movie so true to what it feels like to be a kid that kids didnt see it and who shares a name with the novelty-song big-band leader of the 1940s - I want a little bit of edge. Hes so kind that when I complain about how much of a letdown he is, he offers to stab me. - Joel Stein, TIME.Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He started his feature film directing career with Being John Malkovich (1999) and adaptation (2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman. After that Jonze started writing his own screenplays and directed the films: where the wild Things are (2009) and Her (2013). Jonze is well known for his music video collaborations with Fatboy Slim, Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Bjrk. He was a co-creator and executive producer of MTVs Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris unningham and Michel Gondry, and the palm Pictures company. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Director for Being John Malkovich, and Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Song (The Moon Song) for Her. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 2014 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Her.

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assaf amirProducer Assaf Amir established Norma Productions in 1995. Amirs debut production, Chronicle of a Disapperance (Elia Suleiman, 1996), won the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice Film Festival in 1996. Since then, Amir has produced an array of drama and documentary series, documentary and feature films, which have been distributed locally and internationally, winning numerous awards such as five Israeli Academy Awards, four Best Film Awards at Jerusalem Film Festival, and an array of awards in international festivals, such as Venice, Berlin, and Tokyo. Norma Productions titles include: Broken wings, The Cemetery Club, and fill the Void. In addition to working as a producer, Amir serves as the Chairman of the Israeli Producers Association.

Eva Illouz Eva Illouz President of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, since October 2012, the first woman ever at that position. She is also a Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Illouz is one of the founders of the Cultural Studies Program in the Hebrew University. She wrote several books, articles, and various publications over the years, that have been translated into more than 15 languages and deal with issues of capitalism, mass communication and their influence on emotions and relationships in the modern society.

Georges GoldensternGeorges Goldenstern was the Former General Director of Arte France Cinema for 15 years, being involved in more than 250 co-produced films. Currently Goldenstern is the Manager of Cinefondation. Cinefondation was created by the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 and supports new talents throughout La Selection (short films school selection in Cannes), La Rsidence (a program in which twice a year, 6 directors who are selected, write their 1st or 2nd feature film during four and a half months in Paris), and LAtelier (a framework in which 15 directors with a script completely written are invited to the Festival de Cannes to meet the Market).

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7Martina GedeckMartina Gedeck is one of the most influential and respected actresses in Germany. Known for her performances as the GDR actress Christa-Maria Sieland in the German Oscar winner Lives of others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), as well as her role as Ulrike Meinhof in The Baader Meinhof Complex, (dir. Uli Edel). Gedeck appeared in outstanding films such as Istvan Szaboss The Door, Robert de Niros The Good Shepherd, and Sandra Nettelbeckss Mostly Martha. At the 2012 Berlinale she starred with her brilliant solo-performance in J.R.Plslers film The wall, which won several prizes and is seen all over the world. Gedeck has received for her work all in all 30 international and national prizes.

Serge ToubianaSerge Toubiana is the General Director of la Cinmathque Franaise since 2003. Toubiana was a journalist and a film critic for Cahiers du cinma, the editor of the French Review from 1981 to 2000, a producer at the France Culture Radio Station and an editorial adviser at MK2 between 2001-2002. He had written several books on cinema, including a biography of Franois Truffaut with Antoine de Baecque (Gallimard, 1996) and a book on the filmmaker Amos Gita (Cahiers du cinma, 2003). Among his works as a documentary Director: franois Truffaut: Portraits vols (Un Certain regard, Cannes 1993, co-directed with Michel Pascal), Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer (MK2TV, 2001). Toubiana was the curator of the exhibition Maurice Pialat, Peintre et Cinaste at La Cinmathque Franaise (2013).

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arnon Goldfinger Arnon Goldfinger is an Israeli film director, scriptwriter, and producer, best known for his films The flat and The Komediant which gained critical acclaim in Israel and abroad and won many international prizes in the field of documentary film. His films have had theatrical releases in cinemas in Israel, the US, Germany, and Australia, and were screened in dozens of film festivals as well as broadcast on numerous TV stations around the world. Goldfinger is a winner of two Israeli Academy Awards for Best Documentary, and was among the three finalists for the German Academy Film Award for Best Documentary. Goldfinger has taught at leading Israeli film schools including Maale School of Television, Film, and the Arts Jerusalem, the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, and the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University, where he teaches today.

Karen CooperKaren Cooper has been the Director of the Film Forum since 1972, presiding over the growth of this NYC non-profit cinema from its early years as a 50-seat screening room to its present operation: a year-round, 3-screen movie house, presenting new American independents and foreign art features, and repertory programming, receiving up to 300,000 people annually. Among directors whose films she has premiered: Werner Herzog, Chris Marker, Frederick Wiseman, Wim Wenders, Michael Haneke, and Asghar Farhadi. Cooper has been a member of film festival juries around the world.

noemi SchoryProducer and Director. Since 2007 she is the Head of the Film Department at the Arts Faculty Midrasha, Beit Berl College. Independent producer since 1988, producing more than 70 documentaries among them many international co- productions, such as the internationally acclaimed film a film unfinished, The Settlers, The Inner Tour, Israels Generals -a five part series on Israeli leadership; 5 films for the documentary series Tkuma. Produced and partly directed 100 short films for the New Historic Museum of Yad Vashem. Since 2000 has taught at the Film Department of Tel Aviv University.

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9oeke HoogendijkDirector. Hoogendijk graduated in 1990 from The Academy of Arts in Utrecht where she studied Stage Directing. She directed stage shows at numerous companies between the years 1990 to 1996. In 1997 Hoogendijk studied Television Documentary at the Media Academy. In 1998 she wrote and co-directed the documentary film Een Gelukkige Tijd, with Paul Cohen, which was awarded with the Dutch Academy Award and the Euro Comenius (Vienna). In 2008 she wrote and directed the documentary Het nieuwe rijksmuseum.

Scott foundasScott Foundas is the Chief Film Critic for Variety, beforehand Chief Film Critic for The Village Voice. From 2010-2012, served as Associate Program Director for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, an editor to film Comment magazine, and a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee. Previously, he was film critic and editor for the L.a. weekly, where he was named Critic of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Clubs National Entertainment Journalism Awards. He has been a special consultant to the Cannes Film Festival and in 2013; a collection of his writings, entitled Time Stopped was published by the Mar Del Plata Film Festival.

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alexandros avranasAlexandros Avranas, Director and Writer. His film Miss Violence won until now 8 international awards among them the Silver Lion at the 70th Venice Film Festival for best Director, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, 2 Collateral Awards and Best Script at Stockholm International Film Festival. His first feature film without, won 7 prizes at the Greek State Awards, at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Milano International Film Festival. Avranas made several short films, art films and videos for theater. Directed in theater: August Strindbergs Little Catehism (2011) and Gregory Burkes play Gagarin way (2014).+

Laurence HerszbergLaurence Herszberg is the General Director of the forum des Images in Paris, since June 2002. Herszberg has received a Masters Degree in Political Science and Public Law in Paris. Previously she was the General Manager of Divento (Vivendi Universal Group), an internet division specializing in cultural services, as well as managing the multimedia division of the runion des Muses nationaux. In the past 20 years, Herszberg has had managing roles in different cultural institutions, notably at the Paris Opera.

Vania HeymannVania Heymann is an Israeli artist and director, who often edits, shoots and does his own Visual effects in his projects. Heymann is considered Israels upcoming master in visual arts & communications, digital media, video clips and shorts. Among his projects: Music videos for artists such as: Bob Dylan, Asaf Avidan, and TYP; videos created during his studies at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design; Bekitzur, a TV series composed of two-minute episodes broadcast as part of Eretz nehederet; and commercials, including spots for Pepsi and American Express. Currently he is working with Gon Ben- Ari on his first long length screenplay of a Hasidic Western in Idish. Heymann recently won first place in Cannes film festivals digital marketing section for his interactive clip for Bob Dylans song Like a rolling Stone.

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andrzej KolodynskAndrzej Kolodynski is a doctor of film history and a film critic. Since 1994 he is the editor in chief of KINO monthly (Warsaw). Kolodynski is the author of several books: In Search of the film Truth (the theory of documentary film), Sance with a Vampire (history of horror film), The Heritage of Imagination (history of SF film), co-author of an encyclopedic publication, and translator of fiction and film books. Between 1989- 1991 Kolodynski was the artistic manager of the International Documentary Film Festival in Krakow, and from 2012 he is the vice-rector and lecturer at the Warsaw Film School.

Eithne oneill Educated in Ireland, Germany, and France, Eithne ONeill has taught literature, translation and cinema history at Paris University 13. ONeill is a writer and film journalist for publications like nouveau Monde and the leading French film magazine Positif, where she publishes monthly and is on the editorial board. She also is the author of the book Stephen frears, rivages/Cinema (1994) and co-authored the book Lubitsch: La Satire romansque (1987). Her recent publications include: Les Couturiers franais Hollywood, 1948-1968, in Les Connections franaises, and Le Thme de lInitiation dans les anime dHayao Miyazaki, in Rendez-vous avec la peur aux Editions Cfal, Lige.

Pablo utin Born in 1976, Pablo Utin is the chairman of the Israeli Film Critics Association. Utin teaches cinema at the undergraduate Film and TV Program at Tel Aviv University and at the Beit Berl Academic College. In addition, Utin has been working as a film critic since 2003 for different publications (such as Globes, Israel Today, City Mouse, and rating-Maariv). He is also on the editorial staff of the Cinematheque film magazine. Today, he is a regular collaborator for Srita.net. Utin is the author of The new Israeli Cinema: Conversations with filmmakers (2008).

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Jane wellsJane Wells is a filmmaker and an activist, founder of 3 Generations, a nonprofit organization that uses film to share stories of survivors of human rights abuses from around the world. Director of Tricked, currently on release, a comprehensive look at the sex trafficking industry in the USA. Wells produced The Devil Came on Horseback which premiered at Sundance in 2007 and won several awards. She was the executive producer for right There (2012) and has produced and directed over 40 short films for 3 Generations, including the award-winning shorts native Silence (2013), Lost Hope (2012) and Im a Victim, not a Criminal (2010).

Makram KhouryMakram Khoury is a Palestinian-Israeli actor. Khoury was the youngest artist and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest artistic honor in the country. He is one of Israels most respected actors, playing in all the major theatres as well as in films and on television. Among his films: Magic Men (for which Khoury won Best Actor Award of the Israeli Film Academy in 2014), The Syrian Bride, and Munich. He studied for three years at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England. He later became involved with the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and the Haifa Municipal Theater, continuing as a member of the latter for twenty years.

Zeynep zbaturProducer Zeynep zbatur Atakan Producer. zbatur worked in the TV advertisement industry from 1986 to 1999, and co-founded her advertisement production company in 1994. In 1999 she transitioned to the film industry and began producing international film projects. In 2007, she founded Zeyno Film. In 2010, zbatur Atakan won the European Film Academys Prix Eurimages European Co-Production Award, and founded Yapmlab. zbatur Atakan has been the chairwoman of SE-YAP, the Turkish Guild of Film Producers, since 2011. In 2014, zbatur Atakan was elected Vice President of EWA, the European Womens Audiovisual Network. Among the films she has produced are: winter Sleep, once upon a Time in anatolia, Three Monkeys, and Climates, all of Nuri Bilge Ceylans films, first Song, and Innowhereland.

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Bruce GoldsteinBruce Goldstein is the Repertory Programming Director of New Yorks Film Forum, where he produced four repertory calendars a year and has singlehandedly created over 400 film festivals. Goldstein is the founder of Rialto Pictures, a distributor specializing in classic reissues, described as the gold standard of reissue distributors by the Los angeles Times. Goldstein is also known for his showmanship; he has produced live orchestra shows and has produced events for all of TCMs film festivals and cruises. Among his many awards are a CableAce and two Telly Awards for a documentary on dance legends The nicholas Brothers (which he co-produced and wrote), and a D.W. Griffith Award for Visionary Film Programming.

Irit ShelegIsraeli actress, Director, and Fashion Designer. Sheleg studied at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio and at the Kibutzim College. Her roles as a theater actress include, Desdemona at the Cameri national production of othello. Sheleg played in many Israeli films such as abba Ganuv, Sapar nashim, and ad Sof Halaylah. She won an award for her performance in Jacky, directed by Rahel Esterkin. Sheleg is well known for her role in the highly praised film fill the Void (2012), directed by Rama Burshtein, a role that granted her an Ophir Award for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role, given by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.

ofer ashkenaziOfer Ashkenazi is the Director of the Richard KoebnerMinerva Center for German History. Ashkenazi is a Post-Doc at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as at the Albert Einstein Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the books: weimar film and Modern Jewish Identity (Palgrave-McMillan, 2012) and a walk into the night: reason and Subjectivity in the films of the weimar republic (Am Oved, Hebrew, 2010). He teaches History at the Hebrew University, his main research areas are Cultural History of Modern Germany, German Cinema, and History of the German Jews in the Modern Era.

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Erez DvoraErez Dvora is a well-known lecturer and film critic who has been writing for YNET since 2007. Dvora received his Masters Degree in Philosophy and Cinema from the Tel Aviv University. He is a teacher and a lecturer in various Israeli institutions among them, Tel Aviv University, the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, the Seminar HaKibutzim College, and the Open University in Israel.

Ishay KiczalesIshay Kiczales holds a Bachelors Degree in Philosophy and English Literature from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a Masters Degree in Cinema. He has been writing on cinema since 1999, and has published criticism, interviews, and articles for Israeli newspapers Haaretz, Maariv, Kol Hair, the walla and Hair Web Sites, where he also was the editor of cultural topics and executive editor. Since 2011 he is the film critic for the Israel Hayom newspaper.

oron ShamirOron Shamir was born in 1985. Since 2006 he is a film critic in achbar Hair (City Mouse). Since 2010 Shamir is a writer and an editor in Srita - a film blog and online magazine. In addition to his work as an editor, writer, and film critic, Shamir lectures on cinema at the different Cinematheques in Israel as well the Lev Cinema chains. He has been selected as a judge and screening committee member for many film festivals in Israel and abroad, such as the Tel Aviv Student Film Festival, Cinema South Festival, Utopia Film Festival, and My French Film Festival.

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Heinz EmigholzHeinz Emigholz began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer, actor, and producer in Germany and the USA. He released more than eighty short and long films, among them Loos ornamental, Schindlers Hauser, Parabeton- Pier Luigi nervi und romischer Beton, and Die wiese der Sachen, which won The Best Documentary Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, in 1988. Emigholz oversees numerous art exhibitions, film retrospectives, lectures, and publications in books and magazines. He held a professorship in Experimental Filmmaking at the Universitt der Knste Berlin from 1993 to 2013. He has been a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin since 2012.

Irit BatsryIrit Batsry is an internationally renowned artist working mainly in video, installations and photography. Her work has been shown extensively in 35 different countries and is in prestigious institutional collections, such as the MoMA and the Whitney Museum in NY. She was awarded the prestigious Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award (2002), has received the Grand Prix of the Socit Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (1996 and 2001) and her videotapes, selected for international film and video festivals have received many prizes including the Grand Prix Locarno 90 and 95. A video retrospective of her work was organized at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in 2006. Her work has been broadcast in the US on PBS and in Europe on La Sept, WDR, and ARTE.

ruti DirektorRuti Direktor Is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Previously, Direktor served as the Chief Curator at the Haifa Museum of Art and the Curator of the Bezalel Gallery in Tel Aviv. Direktor was an art critic for several years, writing in many newspapers such as: Maariv, Haeir, yedioth ahronoth and in her own blog- Hatzofa. In addition, Direktor published several books, was the content editor for a series of 10 episodes about Israeli Art that was broadcast on Israeli Channel 2, and lecturers about Israeli and international contemporary art in various places and occasions.

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andr de MargerieAndr de Margerie, ARTE. Following a post as Deputy Commercial Adviser in the French Embassy in Kabul (1976-77), de Margerie worked as a Project Manager in the Ministry of Environment and in the Public Service Radio France (1982-86(. After being in charge of corporate sponsoring for the multimedia company Havas, he worked for the Committee for the Celebration of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. In 1991, he joined ARTE, as Advisor to the President and Director of Cultural Development. Since April 2004, he has been the Director of International Relations of ARTE France. In 2008, he was named to the International Board of INPUT, for a period of three years. Since 2011, he is also in charge of the International Relations of ARTE.

Claudia M. LandsbergerClaudia M. Landsberger has been trained as a lawyer. In 1995 she joined Holland Film as managing director. In 2010 Holland Film merged into EYE International. In 1997 she co-founded the pan-European Umbrella organization European Film Promotion (EFP) and has been the president for 12 years and Vice President for 4 consecutive years. Over the past 12 years Landsberger has been a member of the selection committee for the Competition Program of the Berlin International Film Festival. Among other, Landsberger is a member of the selection committee of the Hamburg Film Fund, a member of the Cinemart board of the Rotterdam International FF, the Toronto International FF Advisory committee and has also been a member of the jury at many international FF. As a script consultant she is still involved in various European projects and is a member of the European Film Academy.

Diana ElbaumDiana Elbaum has produced a wide range of award-winning films since becoming a producer in 1989, initially in advertising and then in motion pictures. In 2009 she received the Eurimages Award, Prize awarding producers playing an active role in European co-productions. Elbaum founded her production company, Entre Chien et Loup in 1989 and 10 years later, Sbastien Delloye joined forces with her. Entre Chien et Loup has produced more than 100 films. Elbaum is also the Co-owner of the company Liaison Cinmatographique, a Paris based Production Company. Her work and curiosity have taken her around the world several times, enabling her to enroll cutting-edge writers, directors and talent from all continents such as Sam Garbarski, Nabil Ben Yadir, Ari Folman and Yuval Adler.at many international FF. As a script consultant she is still involved in various European projects and is a member of the European Film Academy.

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Edith SeppEdith Sepp is a Film & TV Producer and Director. In the end of the Eighties, Sepp started off as an Assistant Director, working for six years with international film crews. After graduating with an MA in film and TV drama from the Sheffield H University, England, she worked mainly in film industry in the UK and Estonia. Since 2010 she worked as a film adviser for Estonian Minister of Culture and was in charge of the film development in Estonia. In 2013 she became, CEO of Estonian Film Institute. During the years, Sepp was involved as a director and producer in various productions and worked as a lecturer at the Baltic Film & Media School.

Marie-Pierre VaLLEMarie-Pierre VALLE has a Bachelor of Arts (Literature and History of Art). VALLE was responsible for TV films acquisitions at TF1, and then was Creative Director at Studio Canal. Since 2008, she is the Head of Acquisitions at Wild Bunch, working with domestic and international independent film companies. Wild Bunch, created in 2002, is an independent Paris-based European film distribution and production services company that manages a library of more than 1,200 films. Their films have been successful all over the world and often received awards on numerous important film festivals.

rmi BurahRmi Burah Producer. After working as a banker in the Audiovisual Sector in London and Paris, Burah joined Haut et Court as a partner, managing director, and director of the communication agency, working there for 8 years. He joined ARTE FRANCE CINEMA, the film branch of the European TV channel, in 2001. He has collaborated in feature films co-productions of well-known filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, Lars Von Trier, Wong Kar-wai, Michael Haneke and Aki Kaurismaki. Since 2004 he is also CEO of a finance company that he has initiated in partnership with SOFICA French tax system. Burah also participated in the development of animation feature films as an associate producer, in films such as Persepolis and a Monster in Paris.

roberto ollaRoberto Olla is the Executive Director of Eurimages, the European Film Fund based in Strasbourg. He has a law degree in public law and a Ph.D. in European law (thesis in audiovisual and media law). Olla joined Eurimages in 2002 as a project manager dealing mainly with support for feature films. In 2008, he became the Head of Eurimages. Before this, he was a researcher in media law at the European University Institute of Florence, worked in the distribution department of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and was a legal adviser on audiovisual matters to the European Commission in Brussels. Olla participates as a legal expert in several European training initiatives in the film sector and has often been a panelist on industry seminars and conferences concerning cinema co-productions.

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andreas EicherAndreas Eicher is a German Producer and Director. He is a Producer in IRIS Productions Deutschland GmbH. Eicher is known for the films Protektor (2009), adam & Eva (2003) and frau2 Sucht HappyEnd (2001). Was a jury member in various film festivals.

Bec SmithBec Smith is an agent in the UTA Independent Film Group where she formulates strategies for financing and selling independent and international films for clients of leading talent and literary agency UTA. She is also an agent in the Motion Picture Literary Department, representing directors and writers. Smith has worked to finance and sell over 70 movies including: animal Kingdom, frances Ha, our Idiot Brother and Sleeping Beauty. Prior to her work at UTA, Smith was head of development in Sydney office of Working Title Films, and was a producer and film journalist, working at the Australasian bureau chief of the Hollywood Reporter and was the editor of Inside Film Magazine in Australia. Smith has served on the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFPs) Advisory Board, advised at the Sundance Producers Lab, and routinely attends major international film festivals and markets including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Sundance and the AFM.

Christina BentlageChristina Bentlage worked between the years1989 to 1995 with the Cologne Gemini Film Production in Cologne, subsequently moving to the KIENBAUM Management Consultancy, to work in the department of the public sector. Since 1996 she has been working for the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, first as deputy Head of Administration and Finances, then as deputy Head of Film Funding and since 2010- Head of Film Funding. Aside from this responsibility she takes part as a member in different juries and selection committees.

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Elie MeirovitzElie Meirovitz entered the world of cinema in 2002, when he founded def2shoot, a digital post production company. Since then, his company EZ Films has specialized in the production of art-house films, both of debut and established directors. The companys films have been selected to Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Locarno and Karlovy Vary film festivals among many others. In 2010, the company started a department focused on international sales and distribution to film festivals, quickly establishing itself as a significant player in this specific market.

Gabriele BrunnenmeyerGabriele Brunnenmeyer Having worked as a journalist and film critique, Brunnenmeyer was acting as an artistic adviser for the Edinburgh based training for writers and directors- Moonstone International. She was developing the East-West-Co-production Market Connecting Cottbus at the Film Festival Cottbus, which she was running as Artistic Director till the end of 2010. Since 2005 she is also working for the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film, a funding body for first and second films by German young talents, as free lanced project and script advisor. Furthermore she is working as consultant for script development, packaging and project presentation for Berlinale and Sarajevo Talents, Robert Bosch Co-production Prize and others. Currently she is managing the BLS Sdtirol Alto Adige coproduction event Incontri. Since Mai 2013 she is acting as Head of Studies for the MEDIA- supported training program for emerging producers, the Italy based Maia Workshops.

Konstantina StavrianouKonstantina Stavrianou Co-Founder of Graal S.A (since 1999), a production and post-production facility in Greece. Since 2005 she has been working as a post-production producer focusing on short and feature films as well as documentaries. She is now overseeing the co-production and post-production sectors for both Greek and International Productions and is Graals Managing Director. She is currently the producer of three feature films as well as co-producing four international projects. She is a Berlinale talent alumni and an EAVE 2014 participant.

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Michel ZanaMichel Zana Producer & Distributor at Sophie Dulac Productions-Distribution. Zana worked in Los Angeles and then in France as a production assistant, casting director and line producer. In 2003, he joined Sophie Dulac, first as a producer and then in 2004, as a distributor. Among films he produced: El Cielito by Maria Victoria Menis, The Bands Visit by Eran Kolirin, and Hannah arendt by Margarethe Von Trotta. SD Distribution has distributed in France more than 60 films since its creation, among them: To Take a wife by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, My father, my lord by David Volach, and The Dust of Time by Theo Angelopoulos.

randy ManisRandy Manis is a Producer and Film Executive with over 15 years of experience in independent film. Randy executive produced the Oscar nominated Margin Call (2011), and co-executive produced Oscar nominee The Ides of March (2011). He also executive produced Lawless (2012) and Kill your Darlings (2013). In addition he is in post-production on the suspense thriller Big Sky (2014) and executive produced the alien-horror film Extra (2014), which just had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April and sold to IFC. Other recent credits include the Oscar-nominated Documentary Murderball (2005), the documentary Chasing Madoff (2010), and the drama Monogamy (2010).

ricky TollmanRicky Tollman is a film producer based in Toronto, Canada, originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Tollman most recently co-produced Big Sky (2014), a feature film directed by Jorge Michel Grau, as well as The Calling (2014), directed by Jason Stone. His latest venture is The Archive, a distribution company which is releasing the Sundance hit obvious Child (2014) as its first film this summer. Tollman has been involved with a number of projects and is in active development on a number of projects, two of which he is writing and co-writing. He also stars in Big Sky.

tHe Jerusalem PitcH - PointDECISION MAKERS & WORKSHOPS


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Sonja HeinenSonja Heinen After studying languages and economics in Cologne, Sonja Heinen started her career in film business in 1991 at Filmstiftung NRW in Duesseldorf. Until 2001 she was Assistant to Executive Director Dieter Kosslick and especially responsible for International Contacts. During this time she organised Co-Production Meetings with almost all European countries as well as international producers delegations and developed the International Co-Production Market Cologne which took place in 2000 for the first time. From March 2001 until July 2003 she has been working as Producer and Project Coordinator for Gemini Film and International West Pictures in Cologne. Since 2003 she works at the Berlin International Film Festival, as Head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, and since August 2004, she is additionally Programme Manager of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund.

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alon Gur aryeAlon Gur Arye wrote and directed the short (40) feature Mossad, winner of the following awards: Best Director and Best Special Effects (Houston), Audiences Choice (Toronto), Best Comedy (Atlanta), Best Action Movie (Los Angeles) and Honorable Mention at the Mockfest Film Festival of Hollywood. Gur Arye served as chief writer and content developer at Israels Channel 10 commercial TV station (2008-2009), chief writer and content editor for the Israel Childrens Channel (2009-2011) and director and script editor for the Logi (Science and Technology for Children) Channel (2011-2012). He has directed and written scripts for various television series, including the Israeli version of Sesame Street, and the sitcom Amila (HOT Cable TV).

arik rotsteinArik Rotstein is an Israeli TV writer and director, a graduate of the Sam Spigel Film School. Among his work, He created Dakot shel Tehila, a drama series for channel 2, and Yeladot Raot a daily drama for the Israeli music channel. He wrote and directed the 3rd season of the celebrated drama Florentine. Over 4 seasons he wrote 18 episodes of the award winning drama Shabatot ve Hagim. He wrote and directed 11 episodes of the wildly subversive comedy 5 Men and a Wedding for channel 10. His recent works were directing the first season of the TV drama Another Life, and the pilot for the comedy series Yom haem (mothers day), which aired last year on Israeli channel 2 (Keshet).

Dina Zvi riklisDina Zvi Riklis is a writer and director, a graduate of the Theatre Department of Tel Aviv University. Zvi Riklis is the Director of the films: The fifth Heaven (2012), Three Mothers (2006) which was nominated for the Wolgin Award for best Israeli Feature in the JFF 2006 and for best director and screenplay at the Awards if the Israeli film academy, a story that begins with a snake funeral (1994) all screened at various international films festivals. Her short films such as Look out (1991), Purple Lawns (1998), The Postwoman, (2002) and The witch from Melchet Street (2004) were also screened successfully in many International films festivals.

tHe Jerusalem PitcH - PointPARTICIPANTS - DIRECTORS

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Eitan GafnyEitan Gafny Director. His feature film debut, Cannon fodder, is Israels first zombie film, and was in 30 film festivals around the world, won 7 awards, and is available in the US under the title Battle of the undead, and soon in South Korea, Germany, the UK and more. Gafny directed several short films during his 20s, including independent films and music videos. During film School at Tel Aviv University, Gafny directed several award winning genre shorts. In addition, he is a film production teacher, teaching underprivileged and troubled youth, helping them to find new ways of self-expression.

Elad KeidanElad Keidan was born in Haifa, works as a high-school teacher, Alumni of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. anthem (2008) - a short by Keidan won the first prize in the Cinefondacion- Cannes. His short Vehu Holech (2012) was nominated for the Golden Pardino in Locarno International Film Festival. Keidan was part of the atalier program in Cannes and his first feature is now in editing.

Erez TadmorErez Tadmor studied film at the Camera Obscura School of Art. His first short film, Moosh won awards at worldwide festivals. Tadmor and the director Guy Nattiv directed a few shorts together, which won awards at festivals worldwide: Strangers and offside. The two directed a full length version of their short Strangers, which participated in dozens of festivals. In 2009 Tadmor directed the long length film a Matter of Size with Sharon Maymon. In 2012 he directed, again with Nattiv, the film Magic Men starring Makram Khoury who won the award of best Actor of the Israeli Academy Film Awards, for his role in this film.

Guilhad Emilio SchenkerGuilhad Emilio Schenker is the director of the film Lavan (white, 2010) that was screened at over 70 film festivals around the world, won 12 international awards and was broadcast in 10 countries. Schenker is a MFA Graduate of Tel Aviv University Faculty of the Arts - Film & TV department and scholar at the German Bursary program. Former head of programming at G.L.Z Radio, the most popular radio station in Israel. His previous short films Shum and Schatz were screened in many film festivals around the world. Madam yankelovas fine literature club, supported by the Rabinovitz film fund is his first full length feature film.


Joseph El DrorJoseph El Dror is an Israeli actor, writer and director. Between the years 1989-1994 he was a writer for the Israeli TVs hit satire haHamishiya ha Kamerit. El Dror was also a writer for the newspaper Ha-IR. Wrote and directed the short Garger al haris (1997), with Sivan Arbel. El Dror had written and directed several screenplays in theatre, and translated classic plays such as waiting for Godot and Chekhovs The Seagull.

Miya HatavMiya Hatav is a graduate of The Maaleh School of TV, Film & The arts, Jerusalem. Her graduation film which she wrote edited and directed, Mija (27) won the Best Fictional Film, Maaleh Graduation Awards 2008 and was screened as part of the competition at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Panda Bear Film Festival, Sichuan TV Festival 2009, Di frost Culture Film Festival Jerusalem 2010 and Labor Film Festival, Haifa Cinematheque 2010. Her shrot The Doll (10) was screened at the International student film festival- Tel Aviv.

naftaly GliksbergNaftaly Gliksberg Director & Producer. Among his works: I am Shimon Peres, a film that tries to decode the image of the ninth President of Israel, through monologues and Archives (the film is in final editing), under-lying anti-Semitism (2005), an incisive film that examines the contemporary Anti-Semitism in Europe and the U.S. and fashion order (2011), a TV series that examines historical processes of Israel through fashion. Over the years he had directed several documentaries. Gliksbergs works participated in more than forty festivals around the world. Was one of the founders of the Maaleh School of TV, Film and The Arts and was the Schools first principle.

nina MenkesNina Menkes Menkess work has been shown widely in major international film festivals including Sundance, Locarno, the Berlinale, Toronto, Rotterdam, and Cannes as well as at La Cinematheque Franoise, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and MOMA in New York City. Her many honors include a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for her first feature Magdalena Viraga (1986), a FIPRESCI Award for MASSAKER at the Berlinale, and the Anat Pirchi Award for Best Drama at the 2010 Jerusalem International Film Festival for her first Hebrew language feature, Dissolution (2010). In 2012 retrospectives of her work were presented in Los Angeles, New York City, and Berlin, Germany.


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nir BergmanNir Bergman is a leading Israeli director and writer for film and TV. Among his works: Broken wings (2002) writer & director, distributed worldwide by Sony Classics, won best Writing and Directing Awards at The Jerusalem International Film Festival, as well as the Grand prix award for Best Film, Tokyo International Film Award, the Panorama Audience Award and more. In Treatment (2004), Drama series, co - creator, writer & director, the series was sold to HBO and won the Emmy Award. Intimate Grammar (2010, Berlinale Co-Production Market 2009) writer & director won the Tokyo Grand Prix for best film and Best Film Award at Jerusalem Film Festival. yona, writer & director, (2014) produced by UCM and will soon be released.

nitzan GiladyNitzan Gilady is the director, producer & scriptwriter of the documentary films Jerusalem Is Proud to Present, In Satmar Custody and The Last Enemy. His films have received 13 international awards, participated in over 120 international film festivals and broadcast in prestigious TV channels over the world (among them are: Sundance channel and ZDF-ARTE). The short fiction drama Queens up directed by Gilady has participated at the international Jerusalem Film Festival and received an Audience award at Sedicicorto - Forli International film festival. Gilady is a graduate of the Academy of arts Circle in the Square (NY). He has received a grant for the art of cinema 2004 initiated by the Ministry of education, given to outstanding Israeli filmmakers.

nony GeffenNony Geffen started his career as an actor in television films and features, including its never Too Late by Ido Fluk (2011). In 2012 Geffen published his first movie not in Tel aviv which he wrote, directed and acted in. not in Tel aviv won the special jury prize (silver leopard prize) in Locarno Film Festival. why Elephant is his feature film script in development, granted by the Israel film fund. Geffen won the main actor in the award winning FIFF - Fribourg International Film Festival for his role in its never Too Late.



ram nehariRam Nehari is a graduate of the Faculty of Film and Television at the Tel Aviv University. Nehari wrote and directed (with Tamar Marom) the series a Star Shines over the Heart (2001); directed and co-wrote the series Love Hurts (2005), winner of two Israeli Film and Television Academy Awards, and of the Haifa Film Festival (2004); directed and co-wrote the series Imale (2006-2007), winner of five Israeli Film and Television Academy Awards, Director of the series Mekimi (2013), based on a book by Noa Yaron-Dayan. The series participated in the Series Mania Festival at Forum des Images, Paris, and at the Input Television Conference (2014) in Helsinki; Script editor on Dana Modans series ananda, airing on Hot (first and second seasons).

Tal GoldbergTal Goldberg is a professional Israeli screenwriter and director. He has written and directed the 90 minutes action-comedy feature film oMG, Im a robot! (2014) and off screen, a TV comedy. Goldberg has worked with many Israeli A-list actors such as Tzahi Grad, Dror Keren, Michael Mushonov, and others. off screen was bought by Hot VOD and later was adapted as a web-series by Walla. The show has won many awards in television and web series festivals. The feature film oMG, Im a robot! is currently in Post production stages. These days Tal works as a director and screenwriter at Srutonim, a video production company.

yuval GranotYuval Granot Director & writer. His film Julia Mia, which he wrote, directed and produced, won the Haifa Film Festival, 2007. Granot wrote & directed several TV series such as The good guys (1999) and reds (1998). Now days, Granot is raising funds for Karny, a historic, Ironic comedy which is based on the true story of his father, Shmuel Katz, who was an Irgun headquarters member and advisor to Prime Minister Menahem Begin.

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tHe Jerusalem PitcH - PointPARTICIPANTS - PRODUCERS

Chilik MichaeliChilik Michaeli UCM. Established UCM in 2006 together with Avraham Pirchi & Tami Leon. They have been working with leading companies in the entertainment world in Israel and abroad. UCM films have run the major international film festival circuits, reached a worldwide audience and sold internationally. Among its recent films: yona (2014), Director: Nir Bergman, Dancing arabs (2014), Director: Eran Riklis, Big Bad wolves (2013), Directors: Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales, The Matchmaker (2010), Director: Avi Nesher and A Matter of Size (2009), Directors: Sharon Maymon & Erez Tadmor.

Eitan MansuriEitan Mansuri Spiro Films. Among his selected works as a producer: The Congress, Director: Ari Folman, [opening film- Quinzaine des Ralisateurs, Cannes], The Cutoff Man, and Director: Idan Hubel [official selection-Venice Orizzonti] and as an Associate Producer- The wanderer, Director: Avishai Sivan [official selection- Quinzaine des Ralisateurs, Cannes]. Spiro Films is an Israeli based Production Company dedicated to producing artistically ambitious films and aims to promote expressive voices of new emerging generation of Israeli writers and directors.

Elad PelegElad Peleg Daroma Productions. The Company, founded in 2009, already has nine projects for cinema and T.V. Two already completed and 7 more in advanced production stages. Selected Films: red Leaves - Feature Drama, 80 min, Director: Bazi Getta. In Post-Production, Funding: Israel Film Fund, Avi-Chai foundation, Gesher film-fund, The Israeli cable and satellite council. Mossad! - Feature Comedy, 100 min, Director: Alon Gur Arye. Cinema South festival, Sderot, 2014, Pre-Production, Funding: Jerusalem film and television fund in co-production with United King.

Eran riklisEran Riklis, ERP. Eran Riklis has been active in the movie world since 1975, as a Director and Producer. Led by one of Israels most acclaimed film makers, ERP produced The Syrian Bride (2004), Lemon Tree (2008), Zaytoun (2012), Vulcan Junction (1999), Cup final (1991), The Truck (TV series, 2002), until Tomorrow Comes (2004) and co-produced Three Mothers (2006), Burning Muki (2009) and more. ERP focuses on international co-productions with an emphasis on stories that travel and can reach a wide, global audience.



Haggai aradHaggai Arad Daroma Productions. The Company, founded in 2009, already has nine projects for cinema and T.V. Two already completed and 7 more in advanced production stages. Selected Films: red Leaves - Feature Drama, 80 min, Director: Bazi Getta. In Post-Production, Funding: Israel Film Fund, Avi-Chai foundation, Gesher film-fund, The Israeli cable and satellite council. Mossad! - Feature Comedy, 100 min, Director: Alon Gur Arye. Cinema South festival, Sderot, 2014, Pre-Production, Funding: Jerusalem film and television fund in co-production with United King.

Itai TamirItai Tamir Laila Films. Laila Films was established as a boutique production company for high quality independent cinema intended for emerging Israeli and international filmmakers. Since its founding in 2010 Laila Film produced: Policeman (2011), directed by Nadav Lapid, not in Tel aviv (2012) directed by Nony Geffen, Sharqiya (2012) directed by Ami Livne, alice (2012) directed by Dana Goldberg, Closed Season (2012), directed by Franziska Schlotterer, arabani (2013), directed by Adi Aduan; Laila also produced the documentary film Translation, directed by Nurith Aviv. Itay Tamir Produced many appreciated films, before the establishment of Laila Films, such as or (2004) and Live and Become (2005).

Liran atzmorLiran Atzmor Atzmor Productions. Former managing director and senior producer at Belfilms, Israel. Atzmor has produced programs for all major Israeli broadcasters as well as broadcasters and distributors in North America and Europe including the BBC, ZDF-Arte, The History Channel, and many more. Credits include: The Yad Vashem Films, The Inner Tour (2001) and My Stills (2003). Atzmor also served as senior commissioning editor for Israels documentary channel (Channel 8) and produced The Law in These Parts (2011), by Raanan Alexandrowicz winner of Sundance World Cinema Best Documentary and Peabody 2013.

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Marek rozenbaumMarek Rozenbaum Transfax Film Productions. Transfax Film Productions was established in 1988 and produced over 50 feature films and international co-productions, among them award-winning films that have been received worldwide, such as Hitganvut yehidim (2010), Hatuna Meuheret (2001), and or, (2004). Rozenbaum held for 10 years the position of Chairman of the Israeli Academy for Cinema and Television, 6 years the position of Chairman of Israels Film and Television Producers Association, and today is a Member of its Board, as well as member of the board of the European Film Academy.

ossie KishlanskiOssie Kishlanski Kishlanski Productions. Kishlanski Productions was founded in 2014 as an outlet for Kishlanskis creative ventures. She studied producing at Chapman University in California and produced five high-budgets, award winning student films. Kishlanskis experiences vary from the various stages of production to development and the business side of the film industry. She worked with Grammy winning directors and interned with award winning screenwriter Steve Zailian and The Gersh Agencys literary department. Later she worked for TV producer and manager Rob Golenberg at Scripted World. These days Kishlanski is busy developing two comedies in Israel.

Shemi Shoenfeld & amitan MenelzonShemi Shoenfeld & Amitan Menelzon Comeback Films. Shoenfeld & Menelzon both are industry veterans developing & producing feature films & TV since the 90S. Shoenfeld is a Producer of Television Movies, Documentaries and Long Length Features. Among his films: Magic Men, Starring Makram Khoury who won the award of Best Actor of the Israeli Film Academy for his role in the film, Exodus: The True Story (2009) and Melah haarets (2006).



Tony CoptiTony Copti FRESCO. Tony Copti and his brother Jiries joined forces in 2011 and created FRESCO a company that provides production services and finance structuring to films with the highest line production standards. FRESCO was the executive production company of the feature film The attack (2012), by Ziad Doueiri and Girrafada (2013), by Rani Massalha. FRESCO is developing the following projects to be shot later in 2014 and 2015: One on One, documentary by Zahi Grad Land Of The Little People, by Yaniv Berman, Minoraur, by Nina Menkes, The Stranger, by Yosi Artzi Personal Affairs, by Maha Assal and Always EIB, by Scandar Copti.

yifat PrestelnikYifat Prestelnik YPF. Yifat Prestelnik Films is a boutique production company since 2003 that specializes in feature films & television series. YPF has unique and long terms relationships with its directors and screenwriters and has the ability to turn a rough idea into a final product. Among its features Three Mothers (2006), The fifth Heaven (2012), and TV series: weeping Suzanne (2009), Mekimi, All participated in International festivals and won prizes.

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international filmmakers & Professionals

aaron wilsonAaron Wilson is an Australian director. His short films have appeared at more than 100 festivals and acquired numerous international sales and awards. His films include rendezvous, Ten feet Tall, wind (Feng), Leap year, and ahmads Garden. His film Canopy had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and has been screened in competition at various festivals such as at Busan International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and Abu Dhabi Film Festival (where it was honored with the Special Jury Mention in the New Horizons section) and had been sold for cinematic release in some countries such as the UK. In addition to his film work, Aaron works as a television commercials director at Airbag Productions.

agns Hanna GoldmanAgns Hanna Goldman is the General Manager and owner of Personality Agency. Created in 1983, Personality is an independent agency that specializes in all culture related events (cinema & television) and lux brands, while staying true to its DNA human values. The agency deals with international affairs, public relations, consulting, lobbying, events, talent tours, taking care of talent (850 talents ) premieres, master classes, fans, events, tributes, exhibitions, brand and culture.

alejandro fernndez almendrasBorn in 1971, Chilean director Alejandro Fernndez Almendras first studied journalism at the University of Chile and later, filmmaking in New York. He worked as a film critic and photographer, and currently teaches filmmaking in several Chilean Universities. Almendras had been making short films since 2003. To Kill a Man is his third feature film after Huacho (Semaine de la critique, 2009 Festival de Cannes) and Sentados frente al fuego (San Sebastian Film Festival, 2011).

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alexandre arcadyActor, Filmmaker, Producer, Author. Arcady has dedicated his life to theater and cinema. He began performing on stage, first as an actor, after as a director, and then was appointed Director of the Suresnes Theater. In 1977, he produced Diabolo Menthe, before starting in 1979 with his first feature film that he produced, wrote and directed, entitled film LE CouP DE SIroCCo, a bittersweet chronicle of the Algerias returnees from Algeria in 1962. Then, he released two other films on the same theme, Le Grand Pardon & Le Grand Carnival, which form a successful trilogy. Among his works: Hold-up, Dernier Ete a Tanger, Lunion Sacree, Dis Moi oui , Pour Sacha, K, and Mariage Mixte, Tu Peux Garder un Secret?, and Ce Que Le Jour Doit a La nuit.

aLEXanDroS aVranaSALExANDROS AVRANAS studied at U.d.K Berlin. His first feature film without, won 7 prizes at the Greek State Award at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Milano International Film Festival. His film, Miss Violence, won the Silver Lion for Best Director, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, and 2 Collateral Awards at the 70th Venice Film Festival. Until now, Miss Violence has won 8 international awards among them Best Script at the Stockholm International Film Festival. Alexandros Avranas has made several short films, art films, and videos for theater.

alice rohrwacherAlice Rohrwacher has worked as a performing musician for theatre productions and has edited and directed a number of documentaries. Her first fiction feature Corpo Celeste premiered at Cannes (Quinzaine des realisatuers) in 2011, and was then selected for Sundance, New York, London, Rio, and Tokyo film festivals, later to be released in the US, UK, and France. Corpo Celeste was also screened as part of the Religion Today program at the 2011 Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Her second film The wonders (Le Meraviglie) was screened at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize.



amelia Green-DoveAmelia Green-Dove is a journalist and filmmaker. Before joining Propeller Films she was a field producer for filmmaker Michael Moores Academy Award-nominated feature documentary Sicko. Prior she was an associate producer for Bill Moyers and David Brancaccio on the PBS newsmagazine now with Bill Moyers and later now. A native of Santa Monica, California, and graduate of Hampshire College, Green-Dove has worked internationally, including as a researcher at the BBCs Open University division in London. In 2007, Green-Dove oversaw the launch and development of an entertainment website. Since 2008, she has worked with director Edet Belzberg, most recently on Belzbergs award winning documentary The recruiter . In addition to being a producer of watchers of the Sky she is the Audience Engagement Campaign Manager for the films outreach.

andrei GruzsniczkiDirector. A graduate of the Romanian Theatre and Drama University, Gruzsniczki directed The other Irene (2009) which was screened at dozens of film festivals and won several awards such as Best Debut Feature award at the SEE Festival in Los Angeles. Before his debut in feature film, he was the second director for two films by Lucian Pintilie and directed and wrote short films. He wrote and directed the feature film, Quod Erat Demonstrandum awarded with the Special Jury Prize at the Rome Film Festival in 2013, the Grand Golden Taiga Prize at the International Debut Film Festival Spirit of Fire held in Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia in March 2014.

anja MarquardtWriter-director Anja Marquardt was born and raised in Berlin when the city was still divided in two. Her personal and national background have strongly shaped her artistic interests. Based in Berlin and NYC, Anja worked in production and development and as commissioning editor for European broadcaster, ARTE. An alumna of NYUs Graduate Film Program, Anja was an IFP Marcie Bloom Fellow and Berlinale Talent for the Script Station Development Lab 2010. Her first feature film, Shes Lost Control world premiered at Berlinale 2014 where it won the CICAE Award.

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annette InsdorfAnnette Insdorf is Director of Undergraduate Film Studies at Columbia University, and a Professor in the Graduate Film Division of the School of the Arts (for which she was Chair from 1990-1995). Insdorf is the author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; francois Truffaut, a Study of the french Directors work; and the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: film and the Holocaust. Her most recent book is Philip Kaufman which was highly received. Her commentaries can be heard on many DVDs, and she has interviewed over one hundred film celebrities in her popular reel Pieces series at Manhattans 92nd Street Y. She has been a juror at many film festivals around the world.

Carole ZabarCarole Zabar has been an active supporter of Israeli documentary filmmaking over the last decade and is the founder of the Other Israel Film Festival and Fund. As part of her support for Israeli cultural, social and political causes, Zabar serves as board member of The JCC in Manhattan and the New Israel Fund, among others. She graduated with degrees in Philosophy and English from the Hebrew University. For the last 30 years she has been active in many Israeli non-profit organizations related to civil rights. She was a professional photographer for ten years, then went to Law school and worked for the City Law Department of New York in the Family Court Division.

Chantal akermanChantal Akerman is a Brussels-born and now Paris-based filmmaker, writer, actor, producer and composer, and one of the most important European directors of her generation. Akerman started making her own films in the late 60s and gave a new meaning to the term independent film as an embodiment of pure independence and creativity. Akerman has made over 40 works from 35mm features to video essays to experimental documentaries. In 1995 Akerman began experimenting with video installations and exhibiting her work in museums and galleries as well as in art-house theaters including Venice Art Biennale and Kassel Documenta.



Craig a. EmanuelCraig A. Emanuel is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Loeb & Loeb LLP and chair of its Entertainment Department. He represents high level writers, directors, actors, producers and production companies in all aspects of motion picture and television transactions, both in the studio and independent levels. Emanuel is also involved in the negotiation of strategic distribution relationships with major studios, including the licensing of digital media content. Emanuel has a background in representing European banks in film finance transactions and has experience in the structuring and sale of international co-productions.

David BernsteinDavid Bernstein is a long-standing supporter of the Jerusalem Foundation and the Cinematheque, as was his father Sidney Bernstein before him. He is a trustee of the New Israel Fund in the UK, and is also on the NIF International Council. He is a member of the Middle-East North Africa Advisory Council of Human Rights Watch. Bernstein is a lawyer by background, but now sits on the board of a private investment company based in London.

David KustowDavid Kustow has been a lawyer for more than 35 years with an absolute passion for film. Kustow was appointed as governor of the British Film Institute and subsequently became deputy chairman under the late Anthony Minghella. Kustow then became chairman of UK Jewish Film, a role he held for six years and has recently been appointed as one of the five trustees of the BFI Trust. He gave up his legal career four years ago in order to make films. He is now developing two feature film projects, as a producer. He was the originator and sponsor of the UK/Israel Bilateral Film Co-Production Treaty which came into force in 2011. David was appointed an OBE in the 2013 New Years Honours List for services to UK film and for UK/Israel film co-operation.

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DIETrICH BrGGEMannDirector. Attended the Konrad Wolf Babelsberg Film School in Potsdam, has directed four full- length features, a couple of shorts, and numerous music videos. His films include: Move (2012), run if you Can (2010), and Stations of the Cross (2014). His films have been screened at numerous film festivals worldwide and have won various prizes, among them the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, and the Ecumenical Jury Prize, at the Berlinale 2014 for Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross).

Dr. Toby HaggithDr. Toby Haggith is a historian who joined IWMs Film Department in 1988. In 2000 he became Head of non- commercial access to the film and video collection and responsible for devising the daily Public Film Show programme. He is now a Senior Curator in the Department of Research and is an adviser and champion for IWMs Short Film Festival, which has been running since he set it up in November 2001. He has a PhD in Social History from the University of Warwick and has published various essays on film and history. He is the co- editor, with Joanna Newman, of Holocaust and the Moving Image: representations in film and Television Since 1933 (Wallflower Press, 2005), which is based on a conference held at the Museum in April 2001. Between 2010 and 2012, with David Walsh he led the project to restore the film The Battle of the ancre and advance of the Tanks (1917).

Edet BelzbergAcademy Award-nominated filmmaker, Edet Belzberg, is known for elegant, in-depth, and powerful storytelling. Her debut feature, Children underground, was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Sundance Film Festivals Jury Prize, the International Documentary Associations Documentary Award, and the Gotham Awards Documentary Achievement Prize, among many others. Her film The recruiter had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO. It was awarded a DuPont-Columbia University Award for journalism. watchers of the Sky, her most recent film, had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize for the Use of Animation and the US Documentary Editing Award. The MacArthur Foundation, in selecting Belzberg as a Fellow, praised her for her graceful and insightful films.



Edward BergerEdward Berger graduated in directing from the NYU Film School. After gaining experience with the US independent production company Good Machine, working on films by directors including Ang Lee and Todd Haynes, he wrote and directed his first feature, Gomez, in 1998. He also worked as a writer and director on a number of episodes of the award-winning TV series KDD. In 2012 he won the prestigious Grimme Award for his television film Ein guter Sommer (a Good Summer). He has directed the television films Mutter mus weg and windland; his film Jack was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.

Eric friedlerWriter and Director. Born in Australia, Eric Friedler has been working with Norddeutscher Rundfunk since 2002. As a TV editor he has supervised acclaimed documentaries, television movies, and feature films. As a director he has been awarded national and international awards including several New York Festival Awards, German TV awards, Grimme Awards, and the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Awards. Among his works Ein deutscher Boxer, aghet- Ein Volkermord, and Der Sturz- Honeckers Ende. In 2011 he became head of the NDR special projects department for docu-dramas and documentaries.

Esther van MesselEsther van Messel holds a BA in Film & TV production and History from the University of Tel Aviv. In 1990, she joined Warner Bros Israel and became Head of Distribution. She was also head of Co-Production and Sales for an independent production company in Zurich. Since 1998, Van Messel has been running her own company, First Hand Films, in Zurich and Berlin. FHF represents close to 300 hand-picked films and 200 producers from all over the world and acts as executive producer for selected projects. FHF is present at major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin & Venice. Its very first production went on to receive the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Since then, most First Hand Films have won awards: Emmy, Prix Europa, numerous IDFA awards and more.

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frederic TchengDirector, Editor, and Writer. Tcheng graduated from Columbia University Film School in New York. Tcheng is the director of the documentary film Dior and I, which was part of the Official Competition and was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014 as well as the Seattle International Film Festival 2014. He edited and co-directed the documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, as well as being the co- editor of Valentino: The last Emperor (2008).

Georges GachotGeorges Gachot, a French and Swiss national, has been directing music documentaries since 1990. Gachot left Paris at the age of 18 for Switzerland where he simultaneously studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. In 1985, he worked for the music label Naxos visualizing whole music works from the great classical music repertoire. In 1996, he began to produce his own films some of which were distributed also in cinemas. He received the prestigious Prix Italia for his portrait of Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich in 2002 Evening Talks. In 2005, he tackled for the first time a subject other than classical music in his film on Brazilian singer Maria Bethnia Musica perfume. His love for Brazilian music brought him to produce 2010 rio Sonata an impressionistic musical portrait of singer Nana Caymmi and he is preparing a new one to complete his Brazilian trilogy.

George GriffinAnimator, Independent Filmmaker, Writer, Flipbook Artist, and Film Producer. Since 1969, he has made over 30 personal films, from 1 to 30 minutes long (collected as Griffiti Archive). The latest, The Bather, was shown at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and Film Forum. He directed commercials at Colossal Pictures; line-produced lHistoire du Soldat for Great Performances, and continues to produce commissioned animation and public service spots. He has taught at Harvard, Pratt, Parsons, and elsewhere; has exhibited in and juried numerous international film festivals; has written articles and reviews for Cartoons, EnterText, and animation: an Interdisciplinary Journal, and other journals. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts, his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.



Heinz EmigholzBorn in 1948 near Bremen in Germany, Heinz Emigholz began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer, actor, and producer in Germany and the USA. He released more than eighty short and full-length films which are all still in distribution, such as Die wiese der Sachen which won the Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1988 . His work includes numerous art exhibitions, film retrospectives, lectures, and publications in books and magazines. He held a professorship in Experimental Filmmaking at the Universitt der Knste Berlin from 1993 to 2013. He has been a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin since 2012.

Huseyin KarabeyTurkish Director and Producer. Karabey has pursued film directing since 1996. He graduated from the Film & Television Department, Fine Arts School of the Marmara University in 2001. His short films, documentaries, and first long feature Gitmek - My Marlon and Brando (Best Director Tribeca FF 2008) has been shown at many important festivals and has received various awards. He was Artistic Director in the production of the Do Not Forget Me Istanbul Project, in which 6 internationally-renowned directors shot a short segment about the city. Karabeys second Feature film, Come to my Voice participated in the Cannes Atelier and premiered at the Berlinale 2014.

Ido MizrahyDirector. Ido Mizrahys first feature-length narrative, the award-winning Things That Hang from Trees, premiered at the 2006 New York Directors / New Films Festival, and had its Israeli premiere at the 2006 Jerusalem Film Festival. It was recently selected to be part of MOMAs permanent collection. In 2011, Mizrahy was a co-director and co-writer on Beyonce: year of 4, which debuted on MTV and VH1. In 2013, Mizrahys first feature-length documentary film, the critically acclaimed Patrolman P, premiered at DOC NYC. Mizrahy is currently working on a feature-length documentary about the most gored matador in history.

Isaac ZablockiIsaac Zablocki is the Director of the Israel Film Center at the JCC in Manhattan. He was born in New York, and grew up in Israel. Zablocki attended film school at Columbia University and went on to work at Miramax films. He produced and directed a feature film entitled reality Lost and developed film educational programs for the Board of Education. Since 2004 Zablocki has been the Director of Film Programs at the JCC in Manhattan. He programs over seven film festivals a year including The Other Israel Film Festival and Reelabilites: The NY Disabilities Film Festival. Isaac also teaches film in various institutions.

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Ivo feltIvo Felt co-founded the production company Allfilm in 1995, which is a member of the Association of Estonian Film Producers and IQ International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers. Felt has been working as a sound designer on several feature and documentary films, television productions, and television advertisements. In 2006, Ivo also started focusing on film production and is currently working as a film producer in Allfilm. Besides his daily work, he teaches at Tallinn Universitys Baltic Film and Media School and the Estonian Academy of Arts. Ivo is the Chairman of the Board at Allfilm.

Karen ShakhnazarovFilm Director, Script Writer, Producer, Prose Writer. Since 1998, Shakhnazarov has served as the General Director of Mosfilm Cinema Concern, previously the Art Director and Chairman of the Board of Courier Studio of Mosfilm Cinema Concern. Under his management as General Director, the principal film studio of Russia overcame the deep crisis of the nineties and grew into Europes largest, unique film production complex with the highest world standards. Most of Russian film, TV, and video content are produced at the facilities of Mosfilm. The films directed by Shakhnazarov have been presented at many prestigious international film festivals and have won over twenty awards in various nominations. His films ward no. 6 and white Tiger were the official Russian entries for the AMPAS Oscar Awards Competition in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Leah MeyerhoffLeah Meyerhoffs debut feature film I Believe in unicorns premiered in the narrative competition of SxSW 2014 and is currently traveling the film festival circuit. Her previous short films have screened in over 200 film festivals, won a dozen awards, and aired on several cable networks. Her short film Twitch was shortlisted for a Student Academy Award, won a Slamdance Grand Jury Prize, and was picked up by IFC, PBS, Hulu, and Skandinavia TV. She directed a commercial for Converse and music videos for Triple Creme, Joan as Police woman and Luff, which aired on LOGO and MTV. Leah is a Tribeca Film Institute mentor and the founder of Film Fatales, a female filmmaker collective based in New York. She is a Brown University graduate and Deans Fellow in Graduate Film at NYU.

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Lembit ulfsakLembit Ulfsak is a veteran of Estonian theatre and film. He studied in the Drama Faculty of the Tallinn Conservatoire from which he graduated in 1970. In 1969-1978 he worked in the Noorsooteater Theatre, in 1985-1994 he worked in the Tallinnfilm as a film actor and director. Among his films in which he played profound roles are: Brothers: The return (2006), Good Hands (2001), and family Business (2003). Between 1978-1985 and from 1994 to the present day he has been working as an actor in the Estonian Drama Theatre (Eesti Draamateater) and is also continuing his work in the film industry.

Leslie SiegelLeslie Siege,l Creative Producer, is an acclaimed set designer and stylist for print, video and web media and a Brooklyn-based visual artist who presented her work in numerous exhibitions. Her award-winning short film The apology (1997) was distributed by Apollo Cinema. In addition to her role as creative producer on famous nathan (2014), she has served as music curator, commissioning work by Ergo Phizmiz, a UK composer and multi-instrumentalist.

Lloyd HandwerkerLloyd Handwerker is a Director and Cinematographer, based in New York. Handwerkers film famous nathan was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and is a 30-year-project that Handwerker worked on both as director as well as cinematographer. He is also known for his work as a cinematographer of the films falling (2005), Tar (1997) and Santo Domingo Blues: Los Tigueres de la Bachata.

Madeleine MolyneauxMadeleine Molyneaux is an independent creative producer based in New York and Los Angeles. Through her company Picture Palace Pictures, she develops, produces, and represents films, videos, visual art projects and trans-media works that often defy easy categorization and co-exist within experimental film and contemporary art contexts, as well as director-driven genre narrative. Her long association with filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, has yielded five award-winning features, numerous shorts, and solo museum exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and numerous art institutions. She is the US Programmer for the Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal, now in its 43rd edition.

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Marcelo GomesDirector. Gomess first feature, Cinema, aspirin and Vultures, premiered at Un Certain Regard, Cannes, in 2005 and received Frances Award of the Ministry of Education. It has been awarded with more than 50 prizes worldwide. At the 2009 Venice International Film Festival he presented, I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love you, co-directed with Karim Ainouz. His film once upon a Time Veronica premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012. It has been awarded several prizes at film festivals including San Sebastian, Brasilia, Amazonas, Havana, and Guadalajara. The Man of the Crowd, co-directed with Cao Guimares, was screened at the Panorama Section of Berlin Film Festival in 2014.

Marine GouloisDistributor- Films Du Losange. Les Films du Losange was founded in 1962, at the height of the new wave, by Barbet Schroeder and ric Rohmer. Les films du Losange has worked and supported some of the most acclaimed filmmakers from all over the world. Since 1975, it has shown the same passion and perseverance in expanding from production into distribution and international sales. With a catalogue of over 80 movies, featuring directors such as ric Rohmer, Barbet Schroeder, and Roger Planchon, alongside new movies by Michael Haneke, Jacques Rivette, Otar Ioseliani and others, Les Films du Losange continues to defend a particular conception of quality filmmaking - stimulating, relevant, and audacious.

Mark Ethan ToporekMark Ethan Toporek, a member of the Actors Studio in New York, has appeared in films including The Confession (with Ben Kingsley and Alec Baldwin), The Secret Lives of Dentists (with Campbell Scott and Hope Davis), and Lesser Prophets (with John Turturro). His stage work includes playing Pope John-Paul II in Mario Frattis The Vatican Knows at Theatre for the New City in late 2013, and a few productions with the Folksbiene Theatre. As a teacher, he has been presenting the Film Series at the Queens Museum since 1998, as well as a variety of cinema classes for Manhattans 92nd Street Y since 2003.

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Michael VerhoevenMichael Verhoeven born in Berlin in 1938 to his parents Paul Verhoeven (actor/director) and Doris Kiesow (actress). From the age of 13, he acted on stage and screen, including in his fathers drama Der Jugendrichter (1960). In 1962, Verhoeven gave his directorial debut in the theatre, followed by multiple theatre productions in Munich, Vienna and Berlin throughout the 60s and 70s. He wrote, produced and directed his first movie in 1967 (Paarungen). His controversial movie o.K., 1970, about the Vietnam War, caused a major scandal at the Berlin film festival, perceived as having Anti-American tendencies.His movies Die weie rose (1981/1982) and Das schreckliche Mdchen (The nasty Girl, 1989), gained much success and won numerous awards. Michael Verhoevens political activism and his body of work on both the Nazi period and Jewish life in Germany have been honoured by Jewish organizations throughout Germany and Europe.

nancy SpielbergAn accomplished businesswoman, fundraiser and philanthropist, Nancy Spielberg has in recent years turned her energy and considerable talents to producing documentary films. She served as consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary Chernobyl Heart, and is executive producer of Elusive Justice: The Search for nazi war Criminals, which aired nationally on PBS. Before creating and producing above and Beyond, Spielberg produced a project for the Israeli government, Celebrities Salute Israels 60th, which was featured in Times Square on the NASDAQ screens for one month. Spielberg grew up surrounded by the film industry, where she worked on her brother Stevens early films. She attended Arizona State University and UCLA and, after moving to New York, studied film and screenwriting at Sarah Lawrence College and the New School in New York. She is founder and co-founder of several charities including A Bid for Charity, Children of Chernobyl, Project Sunshine and the U.S. branch of The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

noaz DesheDirector and Cinematographer. His first full-length feature white Shadow, in which he is the producer, writer, cinematographer, and director premiered at the Critics Week selection at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, and won the Lion of the Future Award. Among his work as a cinematographer are the films - Gazafish: Caught in the net (2003) and area K: a Political fishing Documentary (2002).

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Philippe KotlarskiPhilippe Kotlarski has worked as an editor on the films Le petit prince, Eager Bodies, and Julia. He has directed the short film une journe entire sans mentir and co-directed friends from france.

rachel nierenbergRachel Nierenberg Pasternak is a writer and editor who holds a Masters Degree in Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Rachel wrote one of the first academic papers on Joachim Prinzs life and career. Rachel began her journalism career as a writer for the New Jersey Jewish News, where she established her own column. More recently, her work has appeared on various blogs as well as in the new york Times.

radek adczukRadek adczuk studied cinematography at the Polish National Film School in Lodz, a member of the Polish and European Film Academy. His career spans across numerous award-winning feature films, short films, documentaries, music videos and TV commercials. He received multiple prestigious awards at Camerimage FF for Suicide room, including Best Cinematography Debut. He was the DOP for the Israeli film Princess, the Palestinian short film, Izriqaq, as well as an Australian feature film, a thriller titled The Babadook which was selected for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

ravit TurjemanRavit Turjeman is the Founder and Managing Director of Dragoman Films, a NYC-based boutique film distribution company, specializing in grass root marketing to niche markets in North America. Turjeman also provides consulting services to the Israel Film Center at the JCC in Manhattan, and serves as director and programmer of numerous film festivals in the Tri-State area, among them The Other Israel Film Festival, ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival, and NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.



richard MisekRichard Misek Filmmaker, Media Theorist, and Educator. He has a professional background as a video editor and motion graphics designer, and is a former Knox Fellow at Harvard University. Misek completed a PhD in Screen Studies at Melbourne University in 2008. His teaching focuses on digital filmmaking, and encompasses fiction, documentary, and experimental forms. His current research explores the interstices between cinema and digital media, and extends across traditional scholarship and practice-based research/filmmaking. He is the author of the book Chromatic Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and of numerous articles on moving image aesthetics and technologies. He is also the director of the featu

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