Israel Film Festival Founder and Executive Director Meir Fenigstein announced today that Shemi Zarhin’s Aviva, My Love will kick off 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival as the opening night film at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood on March 7th. Over 30 films, documentaries, television dramas and series will screen at various venues including the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theaters in Hollywood, WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, Laemmle in Encino and Fallbrook 7 in West Hills. Additional titles are ...

Israel Film Festival Founder and Executive Director Meir Fenigstein announced today that Shemi Zarhin’s Aviva, My Love will kick off 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival as the opening night film at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood on March 7th. Over 30 films, documentaries, television dramas and series will screen at various venues including the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theaters in Hollywood, WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, Laemmle in Encino and Fallbrook 7 in West Hills. Additional titles are ...

So, I met the famous Israeli Amos Gitai who made 30 films. I am now shooting the special classes that he has at Impro acting school. I was at first a bit sceptical about the whole project. Shooting a classroom is (still) not my ideas of cinematical fun. But I got to make a few out-of-the-ordinary shots, especially since Ilan the producer/director kindly rented my a tele lense. I also got to shoot four ten minute one shot shorts which was AWSOME, but also kind of tiring, jumping from location to ...

21st ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL Presents its top honors The Panavision Audience Choice Award to Daniel Syrkin’s OUT OF SIGHT The final night of the 21st Israel Film Festival just concluded in NY (from February 23rd – March 9). To top off the celebrated two week event, Israel Film Festival Founder/Executive Director Meir Fenigstein presented Daniel Syrkin’s OUT OF SIGHT the festivals top prize the Panavision Audience Choice Award. The award is valued at $60,000 and consists of a Panavi...

The 21st Israel Film Festival will take place in New York kicking off February 23rd and running through March 9th at the Clearview’s 62nd & Broadway Cinema. This year, the festival will showcase more than 40 new feature films, provocative documentaries, ground-breaking TV dramas, and innovative student films celebrating Israeli life and culture. Film is the international language and Israeli filmmakers continue to capture audiences through radiant images, raw human emotion and a universe of ...

River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival9-15 December 2005Today, December 15th, closes in Florence the 5th edition of River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival run by Selvaggia Velo, with the screening of Notes for a Film on India (1967-68) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, thirty years after his death, where the director shoots with a hand-held camera the city of Mumbai in its terribly poor suburbs; and Calcutta (1969) by Louis Malle, a cinematographic portrait of the Indian city where the devot...

PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA, the sole documentary among eight competition movies in the first-annual Turks & Caicos International Film Festival, was named Best Film by the event’s jury in the Caribbean before a Closing Night Gala crowd.PLAGUES & PLEASURES, directed by Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer, examines the hangers-on who believe their town just south of Palm Springs will once again become a mecca for sun worshippers, despite being one of the U.S.’s “biggest ecological disa...