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Yulie Cohen
Yulie Cohen (in Hebrew language, Hebrew: יולי כהן; born July 5, 1956) is an Israeli Documentary film, documentary Filmmaking, filmmaker. Biography Cohen was born in Tzahala, to Miki and Tami Cohen, the second of their three children. She is 6th-generation in Israel on her father's side, whose family came from Morocco and settled in Jaffa, and were among the founders of Neve Tzedek and the 66 originating families of Tel Aviv. Miki Cohen is a mechanical engineer, who made his career in the Ministry of Agriculture, became the CEO of Israel Shipyards, and founded the Palmach Museum. Her mother, Tami Cohen, is a member of Machsom Watch. She began her university studies in Hebrew literature and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then transferred to Tel Aviv University, where she completed her BA in sociology and anthropology, in 1982. Cohen moved to the United States to continue her education, receiving her MA in communications with distinction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzahala
Tzahala (Hebrew language, Hebrew: צהלה) is an upmarket residential neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is located in the northeastern part of the city. The neighborhood was established in 1951, and is named after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was established to house IDF officers and veterans of the 1948 War. In 2015, the neighborhood was the second wealthiest in Israel. The neighborhood is organized as a cooperative society for housing. Residents of the neighborhood pay two-year membership fees to the association, and choose the association's committee. Isaac Herzog grew up and lives in the neighborhood. The most noticeable villa in the neighborhood is the modernist Orange House, built by the Ginzburg family. 18/12/13 Refe ...
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Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine – External Operations
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO; ar, الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - العمليات الخارجية) or Special Operations (PFLP-SO; ) or Special Operations Group (PFLP-SOG; ) were organizational names used by Palestinian people, Palestinian radical Wadie Haddad when engaging in international attacks, which were not sanctioned by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Formation A leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) from its inception, Haddad had been banned from organizing attacks on non-Israeli targets after his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, which were widely seen as having provoked the Black September in Jordan, Black September crackdown on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Jordan. However, Haddad defied the ban by claiming to carry out his attacks in the name of a PFLP-EO faction, although he remained part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Heffner
Avraham Heffner (Hebrew: אברהם הפנר; 7 May 1935 – 19 September 2014) was an Israeli film and television director, screenwriter, author and Professor Emeritus at the Tel-Aviv University. He was a recipient of the Ophir Award for lifetime achievements. Biography Heffner served in the IDF with the Nahal Army Band. After his IDF service, he studied French literature at the Sorbonne, Paris. His love for the cinema began, according to him, at the age of 17. He began his career as an actor (in Uri Zohar's '' Hor BaLevana''). His first movie as director was ''Slow Down'' (1967), an adaptation of a short story by Simone de Beauvoir, which won him the Silver Lion Award at the 1969 Venice Film Festival. In the 1960s and the 1970s he was among the Israeli directors creating more personal and social films (in the "New Sensitivity" genre), films that were influenced from the Avant-garde-European cinema. The most significant example for these type of films is Heffner's first fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a stage production of '' Saint George and the Dragon'' at the Cleveland Play House. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics from Kenyon College in 1949. After touring with several summer stock companies including the Belfry Players, Newman attended the Yale School of Drama for a year before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. His first starring Broadway role was in William Inge's ''Picnic'', and he starred in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Gothár
Péter Gothár (born 28 August 1947) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 23 films since 1974. His film ''The Outpost (1995 film), The Outpost'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Time Stands Still (film), Time Stands Still'' (1982) * ''The Outpost (1995 film), The Outpost'' (1995) * ''Vaska Easoff'' (1996) References External links * 1947 births Living people Hungarian film directors Hungarian screenwriters Male screenwriters Hungarian male writers Hungarian male film actors People from Pécs {{Hungary-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Horn (filmmaker)
Andrew Horn (September 16, 1952 – August 24, 2019) was an American film producer, director and writer. He was the winner of the 2004 Teddy Award for ''The Nomi Song'' in the category Best Documentary Film. In 2014, he directed ''We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!'', a documentary about American heavy metal band Twisted Sister. Career A New Yorker by birth, Horn studied at NYU. He moved to Berlin, Germany in 1989 for a fellowship program. His Emmy-winning film research were included on projects by BBC, Channel 4, PBS, HBO and the Paul Robeson, Paul Robeson Foundation alongside films by Spike Lee and Michael Moore. Death He was 66 when he died of cancer in Berlin on August 24, 2019. Filmography *''Doomed Love'' (1984) *''The Big Blue'' (1988) * ''East Side Story'' (1997) *''The Nomi Song'' (2004) *''Jesse Owens (film), Jesse Owens'' (2013; research) *''We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!'' (2014) References External links * Andrew Horn retrospective on Vimeo {{DEFAULTSORT:H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Black
Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood. Her career spanned over 50 years and includes nearly 200 credits in both independent and mainstream films. Black received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Golden Globe Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. A native of suburban Chicago, Black studied theater at Northwestern University before dropping out and relocating to New York City. She performed on Broadway in 1965 before making her major film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's ''You're a Big Boy Now'' (1966). Black relocated to California and was cast as an LSD-tripping sex worker in Dennis Hopper's road film ''Easy Rider'' (1969). That ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Williams (director)
Paul Williams (born 1943 in New York City), occasionally credited as actor, P.W. Williams, is an American director, writer, producer and actor best known for directing a series of films in the late-1960s to early-1970s exploring counterculture life: '' Out of It'' (1969) starring Barry Gordon Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and political talk show host. He was the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, having served from 1988 to 1995. He is perhaps best known as the original voice of Donatello ... and Jon Voight; ''The Revolutionary (1970 film), The Revolutionary'' (1970) starring Robert Duvall, Voight, Seymour Cassell, and Jennifer Salt for United Artists; and ''Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues'' (1972) starring Barbara Hershey and John Lithgow for Warner Brothers. He also directed ''Nunzio (film), Nunzio'' (1975) for Universal Pictures, ''Miss Right'' (1982) starring Karen Black, Margot Kidder, Virna Lisi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Script Supervisor
A script supervisor (also called continuity supervisor or script) is a member of a film crew who oversees the continuity of the motion picture including wardrobe, props, set dressing, hair, makeup and the actions of the actors during a scene. The notes recorded by the script supervisor during the shooting of a scene are used to help the editor cut the scene. They are also responsible for keeping track of the film production unit's daily progress. The script supervisor credit typically appears in the closing credits of a motion picture. Script supervisors are a department head and play a crucial role in the shooting of a film. It is the script supervisor's job to monitor the camera shots, seeking to maintain coherence between the scenes. In the most basic description, the script supervisor is the editor's and writer's representative on set, as well as being the right hand aide to the director and the director of photography. It is the script supervisor's job to make sure that the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Film
An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies). Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style and the way in which the filmmakers' personal artistic vision is realized. Usually, but not always, independent films are made with considerably lower budgets than major studio films. It is not unusual for well-known actors who are cast in independent features to take substantial pay cuts for a variety of reasons: if they truly believe in the message of the film; they feel indebted to filmmaker for a career break; their career is otherwise stalled or they feel unable to manage a larger commitment to a studio film; the film offers an opportunity to showcase a talent that hasn't gained traction in the studio system; or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
