Wise Hassan, Asia take top prizes.
The winners from the 12th edition of Jerusalem Pitch Point have been unveiled at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The initiative’s top prize, dubbed the Van Leer Award and worth $5,500 (20,000 Nis), went to Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael’s Wise Hassan.
A Tel Aviv-set thriller, the film marks the director’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem.
It is being produced by Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films, who presented the project alongside Abu Wael at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday (July 16).
The Db & Opus Award, which comes with post-production services in the value of $15,000 (55,000 Nis), was presented to Ruthy Pribar’s Asia.
The project was presented by Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir of Tel-Aviv based Gum Films. It is currently completing financing ahead of production. The story will follow a 35-year-old mother who must face the death...
The winners from the 12th edition of Jerusalem Pitch Point have been unveiled at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The initiative’s top prize, dubbed the Van Leer Award and worth $5,500 (20,000 Nis), went to Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael’s Wise Hassan.
A Tel Aviv-set thriller, the film marks the director’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem.
It is being produced by Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films, who presented the project alongside Abu Wael at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday (July 16).
The Db & Opus Award, which comes with post-production services in the value of $15,000 (55,000 Nis), was presented to Ruthy Pribar’s Asia.
The project was presented by Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir of Tel-Aviv based Gum Films. It is currently completing financing ahead of production. The story will follow a 35-year-old mother who must face the death...
- 7/17/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Thirst and Last Days In Jerusalem director plots next project.
Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-set thriller spinning off the love story between a young man from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and a transgender prostitute he is sent to kill for collaborating with the Israeli secret services.
It will be Abu Wael’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem [pictured], which debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011.
Abu Wael and his long-time producer Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films presented the project at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday aimed at connecting Israeli-funded productions with international partners.
“After two hardcore arthouse films, I’m trying to make a thriller,” he told the participants, who included top industry figures such as Protagonist Pictures CEO Michael Goodridge and Tanja Meissner, sales chief at Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi).
The...
Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-set thriller spinning off the love story between a young man from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and a transgender prostitute he is sent to kill for collaborating with the Israeli secret services.
It will be Abu Wael’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem [pictured], which debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011.
Abu Wael and his long-time producer Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films presented the project at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday aimed at connecting Israeli-funded productions with international partners.
“After two hardcore arthouse films, I’m trying to make a thriller,” he told the participants, who included top industry figures such as Protagonist Pictures CEO Michael Goodridge and Tanja Meissner, sales chief at Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi).
The...
- 7/17/2017
- ScreenDaily
Thirst and Last Days In Jerusalem director plots next project.
Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-set thriller spinning off the love story between a young man from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and a transgender prostitute he is sent to kill for collaborating with the Israeli secret services.
It will be Abu Wael’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem [pictured], which debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011.
Abu Wael and his long-time producer Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films presented the project at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday aimed at connecting Israeli-funded productions with international partners.
“After two hardcore arthouse films, I’m trying to make a thriller,” he told the participants, who included top industry figures such as Protagonist Pictures CEO Michael Goodridge and Tanja Meissner, sales chief at Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi).
The...
Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-set thriller spinning off the love story between a young man from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm and a transgender prostitute he is sent to kill for collaborating with the Israeli secret services.
It will be Abu Wael’s third feature after Thirst (Atash), which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004, and Last Days In Jerusalem [pictured], which debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2011.
Abu Wael and his long-time producer Baher Agbariya at Haifa-based Majdal Films presented the project at the Jerusalem Pitch Point event on Sunday aimed at connecting Israeli-funded productions with international partners.
“After two hardcore arthouse films, I’m trying to make a thriller,” he told the participants, who included top industry figures such as Protagonist Pictures CEO Michael Goodridge and Tanja Meissner, sales chief at Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi).
The...
- 7/17/2017
- ScreenDaily
For the most part, life in Israel consists of two major conflicts: one is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (many movie samples out there exist on the subject matter), and the lesser known one is the conflict between secular and religious people inside the Jewish community. Because the religious part lead their life in closed circuits, not many things are known about everyday life among the secular Jews, and it is even harder to explain that to non-Israelis. But these days there is a film in production that might just open a window to this world. We previously had 2004's Ushpizin - perhaps the best known and successful of them all, but for the most part, these have been directed solely by secular directors. Filling the Void is the first project aimed at a wide audience that is directed by someone from within the religious community. Rama Burstein is a graduate from...
- 2/15/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Two coming-of-age tales by first-time directors shared the major prize, the Wolgin Award for Best Israeli Feature Film, worth $35,000 Saturday, at the 21st Jerusalem Film Festival Awards Ceremony. Karen Yedaya's Or (Light) follows 16-year-old Or as, despite herself, she follows her mother into prostitution. Israeli-Arab director Tawfik Abu Wael's Atash (Thirst) follows a conflicted Palestinian family detached from its roots. Anat Zuria's Sentenced to Marriage describes the difficulties for women of obtaining a religious divorce and took the $8,000 award for best Israeli documentary. Danny Rosenberg's The Red Toy, about a Palestinian child's lost plaything, picked up $4,000 for Best Israeli Short.
- 7/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes on Tuesday chose six young filmmakers to attend an 18-week residence in Paris developing a film project. Those selected by a jury headed by French writer-director Marion Vernoux include Palestinian documentary filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael, whose film Atash (Thirst) was part of the Critics' Week lineup at Cannes this year; Spain's Celia Galan Julve, whose animated short Historia del Desierto (Desert Story) was part of the Sundance Festival lineup in 2002; and Peruvian filmmaker Josue Mendez, whose Dias de Santiago unspooled in competition at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. Ireland's Brendan Grant, Lebanon's Nadine Labaki and Russia's Slava Ross round out the chosen six.
- 7/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French-language filmmaking will be in the forefront at the International Critics Week sidebar of the Festival de Cannes this year, with Gallic productions snapping up four out of seven places In Competition, part of an overall lineup that includes no American entries. The festival's oldest sidebar, which features only first and second directorial ventures, will present "a balance between pure trash full of horror and fun and realistic films mirroring very different societies," Critics Week artistic director Claire Clouzot said in an interview Wednesday. "We had a rough time competing with the official selection and Directors' Fortnight, but we've finally come up with the right equilibrium." Two of the "realistic" films featured in the Competition section deal with the political crisis in the Middle East: Atash (Thirst), by Tawfik Abu Wael -- a Palestinian documentary filmmaker living in Jaffa, Israel -- is about a father and a son coping with troubled times, while Or, a French production by Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya, is a tale of a mother and daughter's survival in a society that offers few choices to women.
- 4/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French-language filmmaking will be in the forefront at the International Critics Week sidebar of the Festival de Cannes this year, with Gallic productions snapping up four out of seven places In Competition, part of an overall lineup that includes no American entries. The festival's oldest sidebar, which features only first and second directorial ventures, will present "a balance between pure trash full of horror and fun and realistic films mirroring very different societies," Critics Week artistic director Claire Clouzot said in an interview Wednesday. "We had a rough time competing with the official selection and Directors' Fortnight, but we've finally come up with the right equilibrium." Two of the "realistic" films featured in the Competition section deal with the political crisis in the Middle East: Atash (Thirst), by Tawfik Abu Wael -- a Palestinian documentary filmmaker living in Jaffa, Israel -- is about a father and a son coping with troubled times, while Or, a French production by Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya, is a tale of a mother and daughter's survival in a society that offers few choices to women.
- 4/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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