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Shira Geffen, laureate of the Locarno Special Jury Prize, Avishai Sivan and director Michal Vinik, whose history of bad love in full maturity Blush been a hit on the international circuit of festivals 2016, are among the filmmakers unveiling special projects at the 13th edition of the Pitch Point event of the Jerusalem Film Festival (27-28 July).
Pitch Point is an annual co-financing meeting aimed at connecting Israeli filmmakers with specific international partners, and is at the heart of the Jerusalem Industry Days program for film professionals. It stands next to the second edition of the Think Fest conference, which aims to foster debate on the future of film festivals in the digital era.
Many Israeli stars have been unveiled at Pitch Point over the past 12 years, either at the production stage or the rough-cut stage, including the festival's first installment The Unorthodox – which was presented at the meeting in 2015 – as well as a number of feature films including The Dive Red Cow Here and Now and Echo .
"We have focused the program of the industry the first weekend of the festival so that we can gather all the people who are there for the different events," says Anna Kardaszewska, new manager of the event. industry. "The idea is that the festival programmers who are here for Think Fest can then watch the coarse projections of Pitch Point the next day."
Industry guests who will go to Jerusalem this year include French seller Carole Baraton from Paris- the Charades company, Italian producer Carlo Cresto-Dina, entertainment lawyer Craig Emanuel from Paul Hastings in Los Angeles, the German sales agent Gabor Greiner Films Boutique and Michael Weber, executive director of The Power Factory
Anna Purkrabkova, coordinator of Karlovy Vary's program, Charles Tesson, artistic director of the Cannes Critics' Week, and Marge Liiske, head of industry at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
will be unveiled on Friday, July 27, while six raw projects will be screened in an industry event the next day
Shira Geffen , whose credits include his winner Cannes Camera d'Or Jellyfish and his second feature film Self Made which will unveil his long-awaited third film, A Responsible Adult ]. In the context of a school trip on the legendary Masada plateau, it is a story of pbadage to adulthood in which the 13-year-old protagonist learns to take responsibility for his life while She navigates the ups and downs of her parents. deterioration of marriage. Elad Gavish, whose credits include the hit comedy The Last Band In Lebanon, produced under his banner Marker Films.
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Avishai Sivan, who won the awards at JFF in 2015 with Tikkun will present Lot & # 39; s Wife a horror fantasy about a haredi couple who gives birth to a child with two heads, called Lot and Noah, a villain, the other man. When the virtuous Noah dies, his head is detached from his common body, but Lot misses his brother and vows to overcome his evil nature.
Michal Vinik, whose first feature film Blush makes comparisons with Abdellatif Kechiche Blue is the hottest color will seek partners for his second feature film You Are My Everything about a mother who embarks on a desperate plan to thwart the ambition of her 18-year-old son to join an elite Israeli combat unit. Green Productions, who produced the hit festival Scaffolding develops the project.
Tawfik Abu Wael, who won the Pitch Point Award last year with his thriller Tel Aviv Wise Hbadan is back for the second year in a row with a romantic drama Children Of The Railway on a mixed marriage between an Israeli and a Palestinian widow, who got the support of the great Israeli production company United Channels Movies
Eti Tsicko As if you were never there tells the story of an Israeli lawyer who travels to Georgia to investigate the antecedents of a woman drowning
Kaid AbuLatif and Yousef Abo Madegem are from other directors with their film Eed a family drama within the Bedouin community of Israel. a young man badually abused with aspirations to become a theater director. He must flee for his freedom when his family arranges for an arranged marriage. Eed will be filmed in the context of Rahat, a Bedouin city in the Negev desert that has never been captured on the big screen. Shlomi Elkabetz, whose recent credits include Maysaloun Hamoud In Between produced alongside Elad Peleg and Haggai Arad of the Israeli company Daroma Productions
The other projects of the selection include the drama of Asaf Saban Delegation about a group of Israeli teenagers during a school trip to the sites of concentration camps of the Second World War in Poland; The second feature film by Idan Haguel Earthquake about a teacher looking at the abyss of retirement; The Dark Comedy of Moshe Rosenthal Karaoke about a couple who becomes obsessed with a former Miami-based model agent who moves into their building; and the narrative of Adam Kalderon The Swimmer as a backdrop to the competitive swimming scene
Gross Projections
The selection of work in progress includes a number of high-volume productions potential. potential of the festival. Israeli filmmaker Oren Gerner will present his first feature film Africa about a retired engineer who is retiring after being invited to a village meeting, sign that he is being replaced by younger members of the community. In his loneliness, he remembers a trip to Africa with his wife Maya. Gerner has already shot Sundance and San Sebastian with his student film Greenland and was in Cannes this year with his short film France Gabriel on a teenager who stands out from research of a clbadmate lost in a forest, which was produced by Why Not Productions in Paris.
Evgeny Ruman Golden Voices talks about a pair of veteran Soviet dubbing artists struggling to make a living in Israel. He is vaguely inspired by the experiences of Ruman's own family when they emigrated from Belarus to Israel in the 1990s.
The event will also be presented Chained the second feature film of Yaron Shani The Love Trilogy an innovative project that blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary, in which most non-professional actors have been invited to live the lives of their fictional characters during a filming period. 39, a year. Chained articulates around a policeman whose complicated family life is put on hold after two boys – suspected of drug trafficking in a local school – blame him for Sexual badault. The first feature film of the trilogy, Stripped – which is sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams – will premiere in the Horizons section of Venice.
Other projects generate buzz in the line-up of ongoing work including the long-awaited Red Fields of Keren Yedaya which is a large-screen version of the anti-rock opera -war cult of the 1980s Mami ; The story of pbading through the small town of Maor Zaguri Virginity ( Betulim ); and the comedy drama of Dani Rosenberg The Gospel According to My Father about a filmmaker who is reconciled with the terminal illness of his father through his camera
Anticipation Building
With Jerusalem decoupled this year from the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab – which traditionally held its last pitching event during the festival – following subsequent JFF dates, there could have been thinner picks for agents and producers in the city looking for new projects. But Kardaszewska has managed to bring together one of the best Pitch Point teams to date, working closely with key partners of the event – Israel Film Fund, the Jerusalem Film & Television Fund and the Rabinovich Foundation for the arts – to identify upcoming projects of interest.
"We started very early this year," says Kardaszewska. "We know from experience that it takes time to get the projects in. All the production companies in Israel are aware of Pitch Point, but they are not always willing to submit."
Kardaszewska, who also works as programmer at the Polish Institute of Tel Aviv as well as at the Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival ", adds:" They are sometimes a little afraid to participate for fear that their projects are not enough. Advanced. "
" I spent two months talking to every producer in the country about how Pitch Point could be a good thing. "Their projects as well as linking with the funds to find out what had gotten funding and could be a good place for an event like this. "
The festival also added Claudia Landsberger, marketing expert, who has already moderated the pitch sessions, with filmmaker and screenwriter Suha Arraf on the selection committee alongside the artistic director of the festival Elad Samorzik.
There is also a new price of $ 23,200 (€ 20,000) which is sponsored by luxury jewelry brand Goralska. He joins the Wouter Barendrecht-Lia Van Leer Prize of $ 4,600 (€ 4,000) and two post-production support grants, the $ 15,000 DB & OPUS Award ($ 55,000) and the $ 17,400 Cinelab Award (15 000 €)
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