The “Golden Light” film festival for youth films took place last week in Or Yehuda with the participation of hundreds of boys and girls film majors from high schools throughout the country. The festival, which is taking place in the city for the fourth year, hosted 26 film majors who presented their films, participated in workshops and enjoyed a creative atmosphere and a social gathering. The festival concluded with a special award ceremony for the winning films hosted by actress Neta Roth. The festival is held with the support of the Or Yehuda Economic Company and the Arts Division of the Ministry of Education.
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As part of the festival, there were 7 different and varied artist workshops held in 5 centers where the groups came and enjoyed, among other things, an acting workshop and receiving practical tools for working with actors with the actress Gal Malka, a workshop on designing a hero and commemorating icons in documentary cinema with the creator and actor Kobi Faraj, and other video editing workshops , make-up and effects, scripts, dressing and online editing.
Or Yehuda was represented by the students majoring in cinema at Yuval High School with the film “The Human Diary” which brings the point of view of a boy from the Ethiopian tribe and his struggles with social, emotional and academic situations in a new and unfamiliar environment, directed by Noa Shabtai, photographed by Usher and edited by Shaf Pasternak, and high school students Beit Eckstein with the film “Let them look at me” featuring Adeva, a sociable girl from Or Yehuda who starts drinking alcohol due to difficulties and fights with her father.
The film “Look at me” by Beit Eckstein High School starring Sivan Kimmelman won a commendation award along with all the students of the major who wrote, directed and even filmed it, Linoy Mills, Roni Raz, Liam Ohana, Yuval Abtalion, Guy Neuman, Rika Draganchuk, Michael Bronfman, Eyal Rubin, Nikita Soloviov, Leon Lifshitz, Nir Agam and Orin Shashua.
Eliran Eliya, deputy mayor, screenwriter and director and the initiator of the festival, stated in his words: “The Or Yehuda Festival for Young Cinema, which opens its doors to the best students of media and cinema in Israel, is a vibrant artistic experience, young in spirit, pluralistic and full of magic. The excitement that a young film festival brings to the Light of Yehuda positions us as a city of freedom of expression and a bastion of creative freedom, for people of all religions, and for all those who believe in the importance of humanism and art education. My warmest congratulations to all those who do the craft with dedication and investment, and to the young creators from all over the country, continued blessed work.”
The mayor, Liat Shohat, states: “The “Golden Light” festival is taking place for the fourth year in Or Yehuda, which with its development has emphasized the field of culture, cinema and creativity and invests many resources to be a center of attraction for creators. Over the past few years we have hosted many productions that have found a warm place and a home in our city to create films and original productions. I want to thank everyone who came and especially our film students. Congratulations to Shushi Altman, the program coordinator at Beit Eckstein High School, and Mordi Gigi, the school’s principal, for the great honor of winning the title of Commendation for the Youth Film”.
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