It was homemade, and now it’s being made into a movie. About three years ago, Adam Soriano (35) received a demolition order for his house, which is located on agricultural land between buildings in the heart of Yehud-Monoson. He was forced to leave the place where he grew up and decided to move with his wife and two young children to Kiryat Ono.
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Soriano, perhaps unlike anyone else, was actually inspired by the demolition order he received, and decided to base a full-length feature film on the case. This move recently yielded sweet fruits for Soriano when it was announced that the Israel Cinema Fund, the largest and most important fund in Israel, decided to participate and support his film “Processed” with a grant for the editing stage.
“It is known that the film funds in Israel do not fully finance any film, so continuing to raise a budget after receiving the fund is commonplace,” says Adam and adds: “The idea for the film was born the day I found out that the shack where my wife, myself and our little child live had received a demolition order, that same day I realized that I was going to make a feature film based on a dramatic and one-time event of an adjacent land house wall to wall The TMA 38 building actually received a demolition order and is located within the construction site. A situation that would cost tens of millions of shekels to create artificially. So in this sense the film is low-budget “smart”.
Adam’s original plan was to contact foundations in order to get funding for the film before filming, but then the Corona epidemic came to Israel and crushed Adam’s dreams. “The movie theaters were closed, the funds froze the financial investments and filming of new films was postponed or canceled. I quickly realized that if I want the film to come to fruition I must start shooting the film as soon as possible and for as long as I can. That’s why I had to finance the film independently.”
How much money did you invest?
“I invested a lot. We had to open family savings and also take out a loan. My stunning wife supported and believed in me all along and agreed to this large investment.”
After a massive investment, Adam managed to recruit a team of photographers, actors, editors, etc. and the filming of the film ended in December 2020 and has been in the editing stages since then. About two months ago, the rough cut version (initial version) of the full movie was completed. To Adam’s joy, the one who watched this version and even showered it with praise was none other than the celebrated director Avi Nesher, who made time for a creator he had never met and responded to Adam’s request for the forest. Avi Nesher saw the unique style of shooting the film as “breathtaking” as can be seen in the correspondence between the two.
What was Avi Nesher so enthusiastic about?
“We chose to shoot the film in the style of one long, continuous shot. ‘One Shot’ in the professional parlance. Apart from this, this is the first long Israeli film shot in this style. The photography establishes the convoluted, busy and sometimes even suffocating atmosphere of the couple.”
Is the movie actually based on your story?
“The only thing that is based on truth in the film is the fact that the house received a demolition order. Beyond that, this is a feature film in which everything presented is fake and invented for the purposes of drama, and any connection between it and reality is accidental, including the plot, the conflict, the names, the drama, the lawsuit.”
So what is the movie actually about?
“The protagonists of the film are a couple who run a delivery restaurant in their home kitchen. The two maintain a healthy relationship alongside working together, until a demolition order breaks the peace and exposes the cracks in their relationship.”
Adam’s film is now in what he calls the final edit or film grading process. This process includes professional editing that will bring the film to a cinematic level in terms of effects, color and sound. In addition, in order to screen the film commercially, copyrights for original songs and the like must be paid.
The price of all of the above reaches hundreds of thousands of shekels, and with the amount that Adam invested and the amount invested by the foundation, there is still no money to complete the budget required to finish the film. To this end, Adam started a crowdfunding campaign in which he calls on everyone who believes in him and in the film to donate so that his dream will come true and the film will be screened in cinemas in Israel and around the world.
“At the heart of our work is a social, popular protest about the cost of living and the erosion of the middle class in Israel,” says Adam. “If you believe in the film and want to be the ones thanks to whom it will come true, if it sounds interesting to you to invest in bold and kicking cinema with a social message and on the way to receive equal returns, then you belong with us and we are very excited about it.”
To donate to Adam’s crowdfunding campaign and watch the movie trailer:
https://headstart.co.il/project/68382
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