2024-06-30 23:04:31
The twenty sixth Tel Aviv Worldwide Scholar Movie Competition, happening from August 14 to twenty on the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and all through the town, has introduced its company, opening movies and an inventive program highlighting the creativity and resilience of younger Israeli filmmakers.
The pageant is often held in June, however this yr it was moved to August because of the delay within the college yr attributable to the conflict. Lots of the movies on view will take care of points associated to the conflict and the October 7 bloodbath that triggered it.
This yr’s pageant company will embrace acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter, director and playwright David Mamet, whose works embrace Glengarry Glen Ross, Velocity of the Plow, Playhouse and Heist. He has already visited our nation a number of occasions to take part in movie festivals.
Additionally invited are Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana, the Ugandan director, screenwriter and producer identified for his movie Who Killed Captain Alex? and different motion movies, Oscar-nominated editor and César Award winner Juliette Wölfling (The Butterfly and the Diving Bell, Emilia Perez), and the director of the Worldwide Quick Movie Competition Oberhausen, Dr. Lars Henrik Gass.
Company will conduct grasp lessons and present their movies, and lots of of them will probably be seen by Israelis for the primary time.
The pageant will open with two quick movies that received the earlier pitching competitors: Roy Kanevsky’s function movie “The Guardian” and Uri Gold’s animated movie “Glag”. The opening ceremony will probably be hosted by actor Yossi Marshak.
This yr’s pageant competitors program will function greater than 100 quick movies from 20 international locations, together with Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Burkina Faso and Israel. The worldwide competitors will function a number of movies made by refugees of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict.
The Israeli competitors will function Amit Vaknin’s movie This Is Not the Time for Pop Music, which participated within the pupil competitors on the Cannes Movie Competition this yr and have become the one Israeli movie to symbolize the nation at this prestigious occasion.
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