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Nitzan Gilady
Nitzan Gilady (also known as Nitzan Giladi; he, ניצן גלעדי) is an Israeli film director who has written, produced and directed the documentary films '' In Satmar Custody'' (2003) and ''Jerusalem Is Proud to Present'' (2008) and '' The Last Enemy'' and " It runs in the Family" (2010). His films have received 13 international awards, participated in over 120 international film festivals and broadcast in prestigious TV channels over the world including Sundance Channel and ZDF-ARTE. His TV work includes: ''Singing to Oblivion - The Story of Miri Aloni'', ''Do Not Call Me Black 2008'' and ''Dark Southern Deal''. 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. In 2004, he received a grant for the art of cinema initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport given to outstanding Israeli filmmakers and film ...
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Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ...
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Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are Educational film, educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very Informational listening, informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social media platfor ...
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In Satmar Custody
''In Satmar Custody'' is a 2003 film of the Jaradis, a Yemenite Jewish family, one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US (Monroe, New York) by the Hasidic Satmar Satmar (Yiddish: סאַטמאַר, Hebrew: סאטמר) is a Hasidic group founded in 1905 by Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, in the city of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary (now Satu Mare in Romania). The group is an offshoot of the Sighet Hasidic dynasty ... community, which advises against immigration to Israel. The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar community that became distractive and tragic to families who have traveled thousands of miles to a place with strange rules, norms, morals, and lifestyles. The film follows the life of Yahia and Lauza Jaradi, who were brought from Yemen into the Satmar community. It starts on the day that the Jaradi couple received an urgent phone call notifying that their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Hadia, died in a hospital in P ...
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Jerusalem Is Proud To Present
''Jerusalem Is Proud to Present'' is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nitzan Gilady about the 2006 World Pride Festival, an LGBT festival held in Jerusalem. It follows the lives of members of the Open House, Jerusalem's LGBT community center, who are planning the events, the threats they and their families receive, but refuse to back down. The poster of the documentary features a young Israeli man who vows to lead the parade despite having been stabbed by a fanatic at a previous parade. The film relates the controversy over the festival, with orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians, and conservative Muslims united in their dislike of a gay festival being held in a city they consider holy. The film had its U.S. premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on 29 July 2008, and showed in 60 film festivals winning prizes. Awards *"Best Out Standing Documentary at Outfest Outfest is an LGBTQ-oriented nonprofit that produces two film festivals, operates a movie streaming p ...
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The Last Enemy (film)
''The Last Enemy'' (Italian:''L'ultima nemica'') is a 1938 Italian drama film directed by Umberto Barbaro and starring Fosco Giachetti, María Denis María Denis (22 November 1916 – 15 April 2004) was an Argentine-born actress in Italian made films. Denis moved to Italy in 1932 when she was 16, and appeared in her first film there the same year. Denis became a top Italian star between 1936 ... and Guglielmo Sinaz.Moliterno p.24 Cast References Bibliography * Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. ''Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945''. University of California Press, 2001. * Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1938 films Italian drama films Italian black-and-white films 1938 drama films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by Umberto Barbaro 1930s Italian films {{1930s-Italy-film-stub ...
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It Runs In The Family (2010 Film)
It Runs in the Family may refer to: * ''It Runs in the Family'' (1994 film), or ''My Summer Story'', a sequel to the 1983 film ''A Christmas Story'' * ''It Runs in the Family'' (2003 film), an American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Schepisi * "It Runs in the Family" (''Murder, She Wrote''), a 1987 television episode * ''It Runs in the Family'', a 1987 play by Ray Cooney Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright, actor, and director. His biggest success, '' Run for Your Wife'' (1983), ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. He has had 17 ... * ''It Runs in the Family'', a game show on Viasat 1 {{Disambiguation ...
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Sundance Channel (United States)
Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' and, while it is an extension of Redford's non-profit Sundance Institute, the channel operates independently of both the Institute and the Sundance Film Festival. Originally, Sundance was devoted to airing documentaries, independent feature films, short films, world cinema, and coverage on the latest developments from each year's Sundance Film Festival. The channel has since incorporated both original and acquired programming and became fully ad-supported in 2013, with programming being edited for content soon thereafter. , the channel was available to approximately 60.668 million households with television (52.1% of all subscribers) in the United States. History As Sundance Channel (1996–2014) After negotiations during 1994 broke down t ...
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Miri Aloni
Miri Aloni ( he, מירי אלוני; born December 25, 1949) is an Israeli singer and actress. Biography Aloni was born in Givatayim. Aloni enlisted into the army in 1968, serving in the Nahal band. In the seventies and eighties she played in various bands, including ''Apocolypse'', and had major roles in several movies and TV series'. She was married to Samuel Omni. Minutes before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered at a political rally in November 1995, Miri Aloni sang the Israeli pop song Shir Lashalom (Song for Peace). She lived in Germany from 1999 to 2002. In 2006, Nitzan Gilady made a video of her life: ''Singing to Oblivion – The Story of Miri Aloni''. In later years, she was known for her street performances at Carmel Market in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the ...
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Jerusalem Film Festival
The Jerusalem Film Festival ( he, פסטיבל הקולנוע ירושלים, ar, مهرجان القدس السينمائي) is an international film festival held annually in Jerusalem, It was established in 1984 by the Director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia Van Leer, and has since become the main Israeli event for filmmakers and enthusiasts. Over the course of ten days every summer, over 200 films from 60 countries are screened at the Festival, along with a variety of special events, panels, and meetings with prominent local and international filmmakers, as well as professional industry workshops and events. History The Festival was established by Israel Prize recipient and founder of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia Van Leer. After being invited to serve on the jury at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Van Leer decided to create Israel's first international film festival. Already in its very first year, the Festival had the ...
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Docaviv
Docaviv, subtitled "the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival" is the only film festival in Israel dedicated to documentary films, and the largest film festival in Tel Aviv. It is run by a non-profit organisation A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ... of the same name, founded in 1998. In recent years (to 2021) the festival has drawn an attendance of around 40,000. Docaviv Galilee is a five-day offshoot of the festival, held at Ma’alot Tarshiha. References External links * Documentary film festivals in Israel Festivals in Tel Aviv Organizations established in 1998 {{TelAviv-stub ...
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Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival
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Israeli Film Directors
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