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Schedule

Monday, July 14th

Mishkenot Shaananim

Tuesday, July 15th

Mishkenot Shaananim

Pitch Point

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10:00-12:30Open Pitch of 11 in Production Projects (Open to the general public)

13:00-18:00First One-on-One Session

10:00-12:30Screening & Pitch of 5 "Works in Progress" Projects (NOT open to the general public)

13:00-18:00Second One-on-One Session

GreetinGs 6

the Panelists 12

the Guests & tutors 18

the 11 PitchinG Projects 26

the 5 Work in ProGress Projects 50

Schedule

Sunday, July 13th

Jerusalem cinematheque

13:00-14:15Festival Strategy: The Full Guide to Filmmakers through the World of Film Festivalsand making the best career for your filmclaudia landsberger, head of eYe - Film Institute, Netherlands

14:30-16:00The Future Tendencies of Art house cinema: contents, Media, distributionModerator: kelly Gordon, curator, Smithsonian hirshhorn Museum, Washington, u.S.A Wendy Mitchell, editor, Screen International, u.Kosnat handelsman keren, Producer (Bethlehem, the Kindergarten Teacher)Yoram honig, ceO the Jerusalem Film & Television Fund, Israel.

16:00-17:30Global Vision: Making Movies for the World StageBec smith, Agent, uTA Independent Film Group and Motion Picture literary department, u.S.A

The events will be held in english.

Workshops and Industry Events12:00-13:00Trailers: how to make the perfect trailer for your filmYonatan Gurfinkel, Filmmaker ("Six Acts"), IsraelYair raveh, Film critique ("cinemascope" blog), Israel

The workshop will be held in hebrew

The workshops and panels are open to the general public and are aimed for Filmmakers, the professional members of the Film & TV industry and Film Students.

Free entrance, subject to R.S.V.P via email: [email protected]

Wednesday, July 16thPROduced WITh The cOllABORATION OF The JeRuSAleM FIlM & TeleVISION FuNd

hansen house14th Gedaliah Alon, Jerusalem

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greetings

dear Friends,

I am pleased to welcome participants and guests of the Jerusalem Pitch Point conference, being held for the ninth year at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.

The Pitch Point conference has become an annual tradition for film industry professionals around the globe who look forward to meeting one another in Jerusalem and discovering opportunities for joint ventures. This year we are proudly hosting more than 300 artists and filmmakers from 40 countries around the globe at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.

Jerusalem is a spiritual and cultural center and a source of inspiration for millions of Israelis and 3 billion people of faith around the world. The unique landscape of the city, the blend of the modern and ancient, and the incredible human diversity make Jerusalem a hub for inspiration and creativity. The talent and creativity of the artists and filmmakers attending the Pitch Point conference is perfectly matched by the inspiration that the city of Jerusalem and the film professionals that work here have to offer.

I would like to thank and congratulate the organizers of the Pitch Point conference, as well as our partners in Israel and abroad, for their contribution to the thriving business of film and television production in Jerusalem.

Sincerely,

Nir BarkatMayor of Jerusalem

Nir Barkat

On behalf of the cinematheque I would like to greet the participants in the Jerusalem Pitch Point event, being held for the 9th time in the framework of the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Pitch Point was started with the aim of creating a secure and fruitful environment for dialogue between filmmakers currently working on films, film industry people and the general public. This framework reflects the broader aim of the Festival: to promote and foster filmmaking in Israel in a variety of ways, alongside the Israeli film competitions, special screenings outside the competition, master classes and international encounters involving the Israeli film industry.

At Pitch Point this year 11 promising and fascinating scripts of feature-length Israeli dramas in pre-production phases will be presented to the international jury of the competition. In addition, for the first time in the Pitch Point framework, a separate competition will be held that will include the presentation of 5 projects in advanced production. The Pitch Point events will close with a day of workshops and master classes conducted by our international film industry guests.

I would like to thank our partners in Pitch PointKatriel Schori, director of the Israel Film Fund, Yoram honig, director of the Jerusalem Film & Television Fund, and the prize donors: Arte, cNc and the Van leer Foundation. Many thanks to the esteemed jury members of the competition for their participation and heartfelt gratitude to elad Goldman, director of Pitch Point, for his professional work, and to all the staff members involved, who seek to provide the best possible platform for Israeli filmmakers and their works.

We invite you to take an active part in the many Festival events and wish you an enjoyable and successful Pitch Point.

dr. Noa Regevdirector, Jerusalem Film Festival

Noa Regev

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greetings

dear friends and colleagues,

We are delighted to welcome the guests and participants of the 9th Jerusalem Pitch Point at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.

In recent years, opportunities for co-productions and collaborations between Israeli and international producers have significantly increased. We continued to see the realization of Israeli films created through co-productions, mainly with european partners.

The aim of the Jerusalem Pitch Point is to create a forum for Israeli filmmakers to meet with key members of the european film industry, and to encourage and promote international co-productions for Israeli initiated full-length narrative feature films.

Over the course of two days, the Jerusalem Pitch Point will become the place where old and new friends, colleagues, and partners, meet to discuss new ideas and initiatives from Israel and abroad.

We hope that the projects selected will raise interest and find partners, and we eagerly look forward to the production of the films, and to their screening on the big screen. We are especially proud that a number of the projects presented at the past Jerusalem Pitch Points have found partners, and have been co-produced. One of them, lebanon, won the prestigious Golden lion Award in Venice 2009.

I wish to express my deep thanks to ARTe France and the cNc for their support and partnership. I would like to specially thank our guests from europe and North America who have accepted our invitation to meet the Israeli filmmakers and get to know the Israeli film industry.

We are delighted to welcome you as members of our Pitch Point family.

Katriel Schoryexecutive directorIsrael Film Fund

Katriel Schory

dear Friends,

On behalf of the Jerusalem Film and Television fund at the Jerusalem development Authority, Im proud to greet the participants and the producers of the 9th Pitch Point taking place in The Jerusalem Film Festival with a warm welcome.

To us, the Pitch Point mission is vital. it is another step towards turning Jerusalem into a key venue in the cinematic discourse in Israel and overseas and this joins the revolution on the local and international screens that the Jerusalem Film and Television fund, the first and leading regional film fund in Israel, has created.Over the past five years more than 50 feature films and television dramas were produced in Jerusalem and gained worldwide recognition and prizes at leading film festivals around the world.

We do hope that soon, your screenplays will evolve into significant feature films. We are proud to support the PitchPoint and the Jerusalem International Film Fetival and its important role in your professional and artistic journey.

Best wishes,

Yoram honig, directorThe Jerusalem Film and Television Fund

Yoram honig

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greetings

The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, cinema Project greets the guests and participants of the ninth Pitch Point at the Jerusalem Film Festival. The foundation is proud to be a partner in the production of many of the films participating in this years Pitch Point, as it was in many of the successful participating films of past events.

The process of fundraising for production is, on the one hand, one of the less familiar aspects of production to the general public, and occasionally even to filmmakers themselves. At the same time, it is one of the most important aspects, if not the most important. Fundraising is virtually impossible without personal, face to face contact and without a direct verbal presentation of the film to potential investors. In this sense, the Pitch Point provides a golden opportunity to Israeli full-length feature films. Moreover, aside from the aim of fundraising, the personal encounter has the added value of enabling Israeli filmmakers to hear the views of potential investors from abroad, thus providing them with a better understanding of the desires and needs of foreign audiences and, occasionally, even offers a refreshing perspective on the film itself, from a new and unfamiliar point of view.

We hope that the ninth Pitch Point will continue, as it has in the past, to aid the Israeli film industry in achieving success in Israel and abroad and wish the filmmakers taking part success and fruitful encounters.

Sincerely,

Giora einidirector, Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv

Giora eini

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Panelists G u e s t s T u t o r s

Panelists 14

Guests & tutors 18

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Panelists

Roberto Olla Roberto Olla is the executive director of eurimages, the european Film Fund based in Strasbourg. An Italian national, he has a law degree in public law and a Ph.d. in european law (thesis in audiovisual and media law).Roberto joined eurimages in January 2002 as a project manager dealing mainly with support for feature films. In 2008, he became the head of eurimages. Before this, he was a researcher in media law at the european university Institute of Florence, worked in the distribution department of the Media Program of the european union and was a legal adviser on audiovisual matters to the european commission in Brussels.Roberto participates as a legal expert in several european training initiatives in the film sector and has often been panelist on industry seminars and conferences concerning cinema co-productions.

Rmi Burah After working as a banker in the audiovisual sector in london and Paris, Rmi Burah joined haut et court as a partner, managing director, and director of the communication agency, working there for 8 years.he joined ARTe France cinema, the film branch of the european TV channel, in 2001. he has collaborated in features-film co-productions of well-known filmmakers : Wim Wenders, lars Von Trier, Wong Kar-wai , Alain cavalier, Michael haneke, Patrice chereau, Aki Kaurismaki, Mathieu Amalric, hou hsiao hsien, luc et Jean-Pierre dardenne, Bertrand Bonello, Marjane Satrapi, Valerie donzelli, Maiwenn... among others.Since 2004 he is also ceO of a finance company that he has initiated in partnership with SOFIcA French tax system.he also participated in the development of animation feature film as an associate producer (Persepolis, a Monster in Paris...)Specializes in feature films production and financing / transmedia.

Roberto Olla Rmi Burah

Andr de MargerieBorn in 1951 in Paris, graduated with a diploma in Advanced economics Studies from Paris 1 university and a degree in urban Planning from Paris 8 university. Following a post as deputy commercial adviser in the French embassy in Kabul (1976-1977), he worked as a project manager in the Ministry of environment and in the Public Service Radio France (1982-1986). After being in charge of corporate sponsoring for the multimedia company havas, he worked for the committee for the celebration of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. In 1991, he joined the european culture channel, ARTe, as advisor to the president and director of cultural development. Since April 2004, he has been the director of International Relations of ARTe France. In 2008, he was named to the International Board of INPuT, for a period of three years. Since February 2011, is also in charge of the International Relations of ARTe.

Edith Sepp Film and TV producer, director. By the end of the eighties, Sepp started off as an assistant director and producer for the estonian Film company Tallinnfilm, where she assisted different directors, amongst others Maximilian Schell and Marek Piestrak, during their pre-production, shooting and post-production. She worked six years with international film crews. Altogether she made seven feature-length films and two shorts during this time period. After graduating with an MA in film and TV drama, she worked mainly in the film industry in the uK and estonia as a producer and director for companies such as Alba Films closed circuit Films and Bona Broadcasting lTd. From 2010 Sepp worked as a film adviser for the estonian Minister of culture and was in charge of film development in estonia. Since 2013, Sepp is the ceO of the estonian Film Institute.

Andr de Margerie edith Sepp

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Panelists

Claudia M. LandsbergerTrained as a lawyer, claudia has had a career for many years in the film and media industry in the field of production, development, acquisition, marketing and promotion. In 1995 she joined holland Film as managing director. In 2010 holland Film merged into eYe International, the official organization responsible for the international marketing and promotion of dutch films.In 1997 she co-founded the pan-european umbrella organization european Film Promotion (eFP) and has been its president for 12 years and vice president for 4 consecutive years. eFP is working in close collaboration with numerous film festivals and markets to create various events which enhance the visibility of european films and help producers access the international market.Over the past 12 years landsberger has been a member of the selection committee for the competition Program of the Berlin International Film Festival. She has also been a member of the selection committee of the hamburg Film Fund and is a member of the cinemart board of the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival Advisory committee. Also, landsberger has been a member of the jury at many international film festivals including Abu dhabi, Jerusalem, Sofia, cluj, dortmund, chicago, Istanbul, San Francisco and many others. As a script consultant she is still involved in various european projects and is a member of the european Film Academy.

during the Festival, claudia landsberger will hold a special masterclass titled Festival strategy: the Full Guide to Filmmakers through the World of Film Festivals and making the best career for your film.

Diana Elbaum diana elbaum, has produced a wide range of award-winning films since becoming a producer in 1989, initially in advertising and then in motion pictures. her films span all genres and cultures and have received critical acclaim on all continents. She is known for masterfully bringing together international talent and financing. diana is deeply committed to growing europes film industry and, to this effect, devotes time to eAVe training young film producers. In 2009 she received the eurimages Award, a prize awarded to producers playing an active role in european co-productions.diana founded her production company, entre chien et loup, in 1989 and 10 years later Sbastien delloye joined forces with her. entre chien et loup has produced more than 100 films, including among others: thomas in love, the rashevski tango, la raison du Plus Faible, Daratt, irina Palm, la Marea, les Barons, rapt, Winds of sand, Women of rock, Quartier lointain, a screaming Man, la cinquime saison, the congress, Bethlehem, la Marche, etc.diana elbaum is also the co-owner of the company liaison cinmatographique, a Paris based production company.her work and curiosity have taken her around the world several times, enabling her to enrol cutting-edge writers, directors and talent from all continents: Sam Garbarski, Nabil Ben Yadir, Ari Folman, Yuval Adler, Mahamat-Saleh haroun, Nathalie Borgers, Nic Balthazar, Raoul Peck, diego Martinez Vignatti, Miel Van hoogenbemt, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth.her production company is headquartered in Brussels, where she lives with her two multicultural children.

claudia M. landsberger diana elbaum

Marie-Pierre ValleMarie, Bachelor of Arts in literature and history of Art, was responsible for TV films acquisitions at TF1 and creative director at Studio canal. Since 2008 she is the head of acquisitions at Wild Bunch, working with domestic and international independent film companies.Wild Bunch, established in 2002, is an independent Paris-based european film distribution and production services company that manages a library of more than 1,200 films.A major player in international sales, Wild Bunch is developing a pan-european distribution network and is active in France in theatrical distribution (Wild Bunch distribution) and in video distribution (Wild Side Video). Wild Bunch is also committed to direct distribution in Italy (BIM distribuzione), in Germany (Wild Bunch Germany/central Film) and in Spain (Vertigo).With film distribution lying at the heart of its activities, Wild Bunch has positioned itself in the revolutionary market of electronic distribution of films over new media distribution platforms via its French VOd/SVOd platform, FilmoTV.Wild Bunch particularly looks for young directors and new talents. Its films have been successful all over the world and received awards at numerous important film festivals.

Marie-Pierre Valle

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Guests & Tutors

Gabriele Brunnenmeyerhaving worked as a journalist and film critic, Gabriele Brunnenmeyer was acting as an artistic adviser for the edinburgh based Moonstone International, a training center for writers and directors. She was developing the east-West-coproduction Market connecting cottbus at the Film Festival cottbus, where she served as artistic director until the end of 2010. Since 2005 she has also worked for the Kuratorium Junger deutscher Film, a funding body for first and second films by German young talents, as freelance project and script advisor. In addition, she works as consultant for script development, packaging and project presentation for Berlinale and Sarajevo Talents, Robert Bosch coproduction Prize and others. currently she is managing the BlS Sdtirol Alto Adige coproduction event Incontri. Since May 2013 she is acting as head of Studies for the MedIA supported training program for emerging producers, the Italy-based Maia workshops.

During the Festival, Gabriele Brunnenmeyer will hold a special Pitching workshop for the Pitch Point participants.

Bec Smith Bec is an agent in the uTA Independent Film Group where she formulates strategies for financing and selling independent and international films for clients of leading talent and literary agency uTA. She is also an agent at the Motion Picture literary department, representing directors and writers.A former producer and film journalist, Bec joined uTA from the Sydney office of Working Title Films where she was head of development. She executive produced the david Michd-directed feature animal kingdom, which won the 2010 Sundance Film Festivals dramatic World cinema Jury Prize. Prior to working in development and production she was the Australasian bureau chief of the hollywood Reporter and the editor of Inside Film Magazine in Australia. Bec has served on the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) Advisory Board, advised at the Sundance Producers lab, and routinely attends major international film festivals and markets including cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Sundance and the AFM.Bec has worked to finance and sell over 70 movies including can a song save Your life (The Weinstein company), the rover (A24), Frances ha (IFc), salmon Fishing in the Yemen (cBS), and Beginners (Focus Features). her clients include Garth davis (top of the lake), Miranda July (the Future), Anthony chen (ilo ilo), Adam leon (Gimme the loot), and Julia leigh (sleeping Beauty) as well as Michd, Ponsoldt, Birbiglia and Bell.

during the Festival, Bec Smith will hold a special workshop titled Global Vision: Making Movies for the World stage

Gabriele Brunnenmeyer Bec Smith

Christina BentlageBorn in duisburg in 1968 christina Bentlage graduated from the university of cologne in 1995 with a degree in economics and political science. From 1989 to 1995 she worked with the cologne Gemini Film Production in cologne subsequently moving to the Kienbaum Management consultancy to work in the department of the public sector.Since 1996 she has been working for the Film and Medienstiftung North-Rhine-Westphalia: first as deputy head of administration and finances, then - from 2000 to 2010 - as deputy head of film funding. Since September 2010 christina Bentlage has been in charge of the department film funding as head of film funding. Aside from this responsibility she takes part as a member in different jury and selection committees: Board of Trustees for young German films (Talent Film and children Film), at the International Film School cologne, at the Medien Grnder Zentrum NRW as well as on the jury of the editing Award and the German camera Award.

Sonja Heinan Berlinale co-Production Market. World cinema Fund, Berlinale.After studying languages and economics in cologne, Sonja heinen started her career in film business in 1991 at Filmstiftung NRW in duesseldorf.until 2001 she was assistant to executive director dieter Kosslick and especially responsible for International contacts.during this time she organised co-production meetings with almost all european countries as well as international producers delegations and developed the International co-Production Market cologne which took place in 2000 for the first time.From March 2001 until July 2003 she worked as producer and project coordinator for Gemini Film and International West Pictures in cologne.Since 2003 she has worked at the Berlin International Film Festival as head of the Berlinale co-Production Market, and since August 2004, she is additionally Programme Manager of the Berlinale World cinema Fund.She is active as decision maker for the producers training programme eAVe, serves as a member of several project juries at international festivals and initiatives, and does consulting for international funds and project labs, as well as moderating workshops and events for international co-production events.

christina Bentlage Sonja heinan

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Guests & Tutors

Michel ZanaProducer/distributor. Sophie dulac Productions-distribution.After studying cinema at eSec School, Michel Zana worked in los Angeles from 1988 to 1996 successively as a production assistant, casting director and line producer. upon his return to France in 1996, he was line producer for 7 years on documentaries for television (Artline Films and SZ Productions). In 2003, Michel Zana joined Sophie dulac, first as a producer and then in 2004, as a distributor in Sophie dulac Productions and Sd distribution. Among his works as a producer: el cielito by Maria Victoria Menis, heartbeat Detector (la Question humaine) by Nicolas Klotz, the Bands Visit, by eran Kolirin, lenny and the kids by Josh and Benny Safdie, nowhere Promise land by emmanuel Finkiel, the silence of joan by Philippe Ramos, la camara oscura by M.V Menis, infiltration by dover Kossashvili, last Days in jerusalem by Tawfik Abu Wael, hannah arendt by Margarethe Von Trotta. Sd distribution has distributed more than 60 films in France since its creation (including Sd Productions films) and among others: to take a Wife by Ronit and Shlomi elkabetz, avanim by Raphael Nadjari, Dernier Maquis by Rabah Ameur Zameche, My Father, My lord by david Volach, Boxing Gym by Frdrick Wiseman, the Wanderer by Avishai Sivan, Faust by Alexander Sokourov, the turin horse by Bela Tarr, the Virgin, the copts and i by Namir Abdel Messeeh, the Dust of time by Theo Angelopoulos, Gods neighbors by Meni Yaesh, room 514 by Sharon Bar Ziv, and more; In coproduction with heimat film on Semih Kaplanoglus new feature titled Grain.

Andreas Eicher Andreas eicher is a producer with Iris Productions deutschland Gmbh. he previously served as a production consultant and freelance producer for Rat Pack Filmproduktion Gmbh, Wste Film Gmbh, cine Plus Filmproduktion Gmbh, dcM Productions Gmbh and BlS Business location Sdtirol AG, and was the ceO and shareholder of box! Film Gmbh and box! Film hamburg Gmbh. he is a Member of the european Film Academy and the German Film Academy since 2007, and he is a member of the european Producers clubSince 2010.

iris ProductionsThe companies which constitute the Iris Group encompass Iris Productions in luxembourg; Iris Films in Belgium; Rezo Films, Rezo Productions and drimage in France; Iris Productions uK ltd. in england; Iris Productions deutschland Gmbh in Germany.They finance projects through national, regional and european funds market derived financing and their own equity. early in 2013, the Iris Group launched a new financing vehicle in Belgium: Iris Finance Services - which handles tax shelter fundraising for Iris Films productions and co-productions. In 2010, Iris Productions founded an animation studio in luxembourg - Iris Studio- focused on the creation of feature films and animated films such as Pinocchio, a film by denzo dAl.The Iris Group produces and co-produces between 3 and 5 films a year and distributes more than a dozen films in France and ten new films internationally.

Michel Zana Andreas eicher

Elie Meirovitzelie Meirovitz entered the world of cinema in 2002, when he founded def2shoot, a digital post production company.Since then, his company eZ Films has specialized in the production of art-house films, both of debut and established directors. The companys films have been selected to cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, locarno, and Karlovy Vary film festivals, among many others.In 2010, the company started a department focused on international sales and distribution to film festivals, quickly establishing itself as a significant player in this specific market.

Konstantina Stavrianou Konstantina Stavrianou was born in Athens. She co-founded Graal s.a. in 1999, a production and post-production facility in Greece. Since 2005 she has been working in film post-production as a post-production producer focusing on short and feature films as well as documentaries. She is now overseeing the co-production and post-production sectors for both Greek and international productions and is Graals managing director.Since 2012 she has been in the hellenic Film Academy organizing committee of the two-day conference riding the Greek Wave taking place in Athens.She is currently the producer of three feature films as well as co-producing four international projects. She is a Berlinale talents alumni and an eAVe 2014 participant.

Graal company ProfileGraal S.A. is a production and post-production facility in Greece. The company, currently in its 15th year of operation, is clearly focused on cinema providing services for short, feature films and documentaries. The company has produced three feature films and two documentaries to date, awarded in international festivals. In 2003 it entered international co-production for the first time and continued with a wide selection of projects. Graal has co-produced 41 films to date, 20 of which are international co-productions. It has a portfolio of approx. 350 titles (170 features, shorts and documentaries and 185 restoration features). Since 2010 it is the main sponsor of the Agora Film Market section of Thessaloniki IFF, offering a complete image post-production award.

elie Meirovitz Konstantina Stavrianou

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Guests & Tutors

RANDY MANISRandy Manis is a producer and film executive with over 15 years of experience in independent film. Randy executive produced the Oscar-nominated Margin call and co-executive produced Oscar nominee George clooneys the ides of March. he also executive produced lawless and kill Your Darlings recently released by Sony Pictures classics. In addition to producing the calling last year, he is in post-production on the suspense thriller Big sky and executive produced the alien-horror film extra terrestrial, which just had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Other recent credits include the Oscar-nominated Murderball, chasing Madoff, and the drama Monogamy. Prior to his career as a producer, Randy played an integral role in the growth and success of two of independent films most prominent distribution companies. At Think Film, which he co-founded in 2001, he headed up the companys acquisitions including hits the aristocrats, Before the Devil knows Youre Dead, half nelson and the Oscar-winning documentaries Born into Brothels and taxi to the Dark side. As a vice president at lionsgate his acquisitions included: Oscar winners Gods and Monsters, affliction, the red Violin, shadow of the Vampire and Dogma.Randys latest venture in distribution is The Archive, which is releasing the Sundance hit obvious child as its first release this summer. Randy also runs a thriving consulting business where his clients include Oscilloscope Pictures, Tribeca Film, Killer Films and crystal city entertainment. he is a graduate of McGill law School.

RICKY TOLLMAN Ricky Tollman is a film producer based in Toronto, canada, originally from Johannesburg, South Africa.Ricky most recently co-produced Big sky, a feature film directed by Jorge Michel Grau (cannes directors Fortnight Selection We are What We are), starring Kyra Sedgwick, Bella Thorne, Frank Grillo and Aaron Tveit, as well as the calling, directed by Jason Stone and starring Susan Sarandon, Topher Grace, ellen Burstyn and donald Sutherland.his latest venture is The Archive, a distribution company which is releasing the Sundance hit obvious child as its first film this summer.Ricky has been involved with a number of projects including kill Your Darlings, lawless and the Words. he is in active development on a number of projects, two of which he is writing and co-writing. he also stars in Big sky.

Randy Manis Ricky Tollman

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seven Minutes in heavan

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shes coming home

infiltration

away From his absence

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it Berlovitch

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non Salomon (deceased)

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chilDren oF the Fall (White Beach Productions, Globus Group) 28

Gerneration 3 (TRANSFAX Film Productions) 30

Minotaur (Fresco Films) 32

MossaD (daroma Productions) 34

MY Ghost MoM (Kishlanski Productions) 36

nils (Yifat Prestelnik Films) 38

no BlooD (Atzmor Productions) 40

PoPPies in octoBer (Yifat Prestelnik Films, eran Riklis Productions) 42

saVinG neta (united channels Movies) 44

WhY elePhant (laila-Films) 46

Yuila's FilM (Glikscom) 48

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synopsisRachel Strode is a young American woman with a dark secret in her past, who comes to Israel in the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a kibbutz and then to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members dont seem to like strangers and foreigners, and that the evening of Yom Kippur (the most important holiday for Jews) will bring danger to her and her young volunteering friends. What begins as a time of fun and the celebration of youth turns into a menacing and bloody night of terror that will give a new meaning to Yom Kippur of 1973.

director & Writer Eitan Gafny Producer Yariv Horowitz

Genre horror Audience 17-55, all genders, people who love to get scared and think Production status

Pre-production Shooting dates september 14 Time 100 min. language hebrew & english estimated

budget $700,000 existing financial arrangements & source Globus Group Films - $100,000, Private investors -

$350,000

01 CHILDREN OF THE FALL

directors biographyBorn in Israel, 33 years old. his feature film debut, cannon Fodder, is Israels first zombie film, and was in 30 film festivals around the world, won 7 awards, and is available in the uS under the title Battle of the undead (from Screen Media), and soon in South Korea, Germany, the uK and more. directed several short films during his 20s, including independent films and music videos. during film school (Tel Aviv university), directed several award winning genre shorts. eitan is also a film production teacher, teaching underprivileged and troubled youth, helping them to find new ways of self-expression. Believes in the power of cinema and the importance of genre films in the Israeli and international film industry.

directors STATMENTchildren of the Fall is not only a horror film. It is a horror film with a strong social conscience, a film that brings strong drama and character development into the bloody genre, with a clear intention to give the audience things to think about - once all the screams and chills are over. Shooting the film on 1:2.35 Anamorphic lenses, in real old fashioned and eerie locations, with a mixed cast of seasoned industry veterans and young up and comers - all that will bring a new experience to the horror genre: an original Israeli horror film that does not hold back, both in its horror ingredients and its social commentary about racism, scars of war, and hope.

company & producer profileWhite Beach was formed by eitan Gafny (director), Yafit Shalev (actress) and Tom Goldwasser (cinematographer), with the intention of producing high quality, fun and exciting genre films in Israel, with a clear vision of combining commercial and mainstream movie making with artistic aspirations. Their first feature film, cannon Fodder is Israels first zombie film, and was in 30 film festivals around the world, won 7 awards, and is available in the uS under the title Battle of the undead (from Screen Media), and soon in South Korea, Germany, the uK and more. children of the Fall is co-produced by Globus Group, one of Israels oldest and most respected production companies.

productionWhite Beach Productions, Globus GroupPO BOX 151, hagor, Israel +972.54.7680663white.beach.prod@gmail.comwww.cannonfoddermovie.com

Yariv horowitzeitan Gafny


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synopsisJoshua, an 80-year-old holocaust survivor, discovers one morning that a cellular antenna was installed on the roof of his house. It turns out that his neighbor has rented his part of the rooftop to a cellular phone company. Joshua starts believing that all his diseases and pains are caused by the antennas radiation. he obsessively starts feeling the radiation everywhere and develops a persecution disorder that puts his life at risk. he enters a life-and-death struggle against his neighbor. his wife Sarah and his 3 adult sons are dragged unwillingly into this vortex. The crisis reveals the personal problems of each of his sons, and they are forced to deal with their fathers dark shadow.

director & Writer Arik Rotstein Producer Marek Rozenbaum

Genre Drama Audience adult Production Status Pre production estimated shooting date january 15

Time 90 min. language hebrew estimated budget $941,000 existing financial arrangements & source

israel Film Fund $529,000

02 Generation 3

directors biographyArik Rotstein (47) is an Israeli TV writer and director. he is a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School. he created Dakot shel tehila, a drama series for channel 2, and Yeladot raot, a daily drama for the Israeli music channel. he wrote and directed the 3rd season of the celebrated drama Florentine. Over 4 seasons he wrote 18 episodes of the award winning drama shabatot ve hagim. he wrote and directed 11 episodes of the wildly subversive comedy 5 Men and a Wedding for channel 10. his recent works have been directing the first season of the TV drama another life, and the pilot for the comedy series Yom haem (mothers day), which aired last year on Israeli channel 2 (Keshet).

directors STATMENT3G is a comic-tragic story about the unconscious influence of the holocaust on the second and third generation of Israelis that, like radiation, is unseen but whose damage can be very real. By telling an up-to-date entertaining story, with a typical Israeli family, easy to identify characters, and a sweeping storyline, the movie deals with complex ideas about intergenerational transfer. hopefully, it will shed some light on the unconscious post-traumatic forces that are shaping our reality. The movie is based on a true personal story.

company & producer profileMr. Rozenbaum established Transfax Film Productions in 1988 and produced over 50 feature films and international co-productions, among them award-winning films that have received worldwide acclaim. For 10 years Mr. Rozenbaum held the position of chairman of the Israeli Academy for cinema and Television, 6 years the position of chairman of Israels Film and Television Producers Association, and today is a member of its board, as well as member of the board of the european Film Academy. Mr. Rozenbaum is one of the most experienced film producers in Israel today.

productionTransfax3rd Yegia Kapayim st, Tel Aviv, [email protected]

Marek RozenbaumArik Rotstein


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synopsisA bold re-imagining of the classic Greek myth, Minotaur features a Palestinian man in a complex double-role: he is both the hero Theseus, and his own nemesis, the threatening Minotaur. But this is a Minotaur who speaks only in hebrew, and the Israeli Jews within the story appear primarily as oppressors. Yet it is Ariadne, who appears to be a Jewish woman, who uses her powerful knowledge to help Theseus overcome the Minotaur. combining horror, fairy tale and contemporary neo-realism and set in Jerusalems Old city as a modern day labyrinth, Minotaur conjures a radical new vision of hope in the Middle east.

director & Writer Nina Menkes Producer Tony Copti

Genre Drama Audience adults Production status Financing estimated shooting date March 15

Time 78 min. language arabic, hebrew, english estimated budget $800,000 existing financial

arrangements & source Film Funds - $450,000, Producer investment - $100,000

03 Minotaur

directors biographycalled brilliant, one of the most provocative artists in film today by the los Angeles Times, Nina Menkes has shown her work widely in major international film festivals including Sundance, locarno, the Berlinale, Toronto, Rotterdam and cannes, as well as at la cinematheque Franaise, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and MOMA in New York city. her many honors include a los Angeles Film critics Association Award for her first feature Magdalena Viraga, a FIPReScI Award for Massaker at the Berlinale, and the Anat Pirchi Award for Best drama at the 2010 Jerusalem International Film Festival for her first hebrew language feature, Dissolution. In 2012 retrospectives of her work were presented in los Angeles, New York city, and Berlin, Germany.

directors STATMENTMINOTAuR, clearly, is about the political conflict: set in Jerusalem, where the stone streets have seen thousands of years of violence, a blood-thirsty monster kills young men and women, spreading terror throughout the land. The central character is constructed to question the accepted separation between Arab and Jew; my radical premise: we are one soul. last but not least is the psychological meaning. Alienated pain and violence resides in each one of us - a poison which must be confronted, struggled withand finally transformed on an internal, individual basis. Theseuss struggle with the Minotaur is hereby morphed into a liberating cry for an end to violence: a cinematic prayer for peace in the tortured, sacred holy city.

company & producer profileIn the year 2011, Tony and his brother Jiries joined forces and created Fresco a company that provides production services and finance structuring to films with the highest line production standards. Fresco was the executive production company of the feature film the attack by Ziad doueiri and Girrafada by Rani Massalha. Fresco is developing the following projects to be shot later in 2014 and 2015: Minotaur full-length feature film by Nina Menkes land of the little People full-length feature film by Yaniv Berman one on one documentary by Zahi Grad the stranger full-length feature film by Yosi Artzi Personal affairs full-length feature film by Maha Assal always eib full-length feature film by Scandar copti

productionFresco Films ltd Kedem 127, Jaffa, Israel+972.722.224660/ [email protected]

Tony coptiNina Menkes


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synopsishaim, the Mossad chief, is worried. In three days, he is due to light a ceremonial Independence day torch. Meanwhile, a Jewish-American multi-millionaire, owner of the worlds largest Internet search and advertising concern, is kidnapped right under the Mossads nose. If haim does not see to the rescue of this millionaire, his torch lighting privilege will be revoked via live TV broadcast. haim calls on his boldest agent, Rami. The cIA assigns Agent linda to join him and the two set out to battle the cyber-terror organization and one another.As in relations between the u.S and Israel, linda provides the know-how, while the Israeli agent persists in acting on his own and then taking all the credit.

director & Writer Alon Gur Arye Producer Haggai Arad

Genre Parody Audience +15 Production Status Pre- production estimated Shooting date February 15

Time 90 min. language hebrew and english estimated budget $1,400,000 existing financial

arrangements & source jerusalem Film & tV Fund - $260,000

04 Mossad

directors biographyWrote and directed the short (40) feature Mossad, winner of the following awards: Best director and Best Special effects (houston), Audiences choice (Toronto), Best comedy (Atlanta), Best Action Movie (los Angeles) and honorable Mention at the Mockfest Film Festival of hollywood. Alon served as chief writer and content developer at Israels channel 10 commercial TV station (2008-2009), chief writer and content editor for the Israel childrens channel (2009-2011) and director and script editor for the logi (Science and Technology for children) channel (2011-2012). he has directed and written scripts for various television series, including the Israeli version of sesame street (hop childrens channel), and the sitcom amila (hOT cable).

directors STATMENTMossad belongs to the zany parody genre, like Blazing saddles or airplane that target the sacred cows of culture and film. What I believe to be common to all successful comedies in this genre is a powerful, complete underlying story that could also serve as the basis for an authentic drama.In the realities of contemporary Israel, security is paramount and Mossad agents benefit from huge budgets and unrestricted activity. Nevertheless, believe it or not, this intelligence agency also includes many people who want to go home at 5:00 PM daily. I decided to conduct an experiment and directed a 40 film as a warm-up for a full-length feature. The award-winning result was seen by a paying audience of 55,000.

haggai AradAlon Gur Arye

company & producer profiledaroma Productions strives to bring the individual back to the centre and produce films that deal with social issues. Our mission is to give a voice to the other the ones that arent represented in the mass media. The company, founded in 2009, already has 13 projects for cinema and T.V. Selected films: red leaves feature drama, 80 min, director: Bazi Getta. In post-production, funding: Israel Film Fund, Avi-chai Foundation, Gesher film fund, The Israeli cable and Satellite council. cinema South Festival, Sderot, 2014. Mossad! Feature comedy, 100 min, director: Alon Gur Arye. pre-production, funding: Jerusalem Film and Television Fund in co-production with united King.

productiondaroma Productions hadekel st. 116, Moshav Kochav Michael, Israel [email protected]


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synopsisuri, a lazy and incompetent guy in his 30s is forced to return home to his overbearing mother, Shoshi. uri hasnt talked to Shoshi in over a year, and Shoshi is so overwhelmed to see him that she chokes and dies right then and there. uri is now single, unemployed, depressed and has no one to care for him. A moment before he loses the house and is forced to live on the streets, Shoshi reappears as a ghost and starts fixing uris life: she helps uri get a job, reconnect with his brother, and start dating the girl he likes. But uri cannot be dependent on Shoshi forever, at some point he will have to move on and grow up.

director & Writer Tal Goldberg Producer Ossie Kishlanski

Genre comedy Audience 18-35 men, 18-65 women, parents, millenials Production Status completed first

draft estimated shooting date December 14 Time 90 min. language hebrew estimated budget

$300,000 existing financial arrangements & source Private investors - $100,000

05 My Ghost Mom

directors biographyTal Goldberg is a professional Israeli screenwriter and director. he has written and directed the 90 minute action-comedy feature film oMG, im a robot! and offscreen, a TV comedy. Tal has worked with many Israeli A-listers such as Tzahi Grad, dror Keren, Michael Mushonov, Yuval Segev and others. offscreen was bought by hot VOd and later was adapted as a web-series by Walla. The show has won many awards in television and web series festivals. The feature film oMG, im a robot! is currently in post- production stages. These days Tal works as a director and screenwriter at srutonim, a video production company. In addition, he dedicates his free time to developing original ideas for film and television.

directors STATMENTThe film is about uris attempt to fix up his life and become independent. The majority of my generation is in a similar situation: the financial crisis causes young adults to abandon their big dreams, and many return to live with their parents and are financially dependent on them. The conflict between uri and Shoshi represents the eternal battle between parents and children. The struggle is temporary, as our parents wont live forever. Yet it is also never-ending because even after our parents pass, we will continue to argue with them in our minds. ultimately, it is hard to watch our parents growing old. The notion that one day they will pass away adds to the anxiety many sense that life isnt all its cracked up to be.

Ossie KishlanskiTal Goldberg

company & producer profileKishlanski Productions was founded in 2014 as an outlet for Ossie Kishlanski creative ventures. Ossie Kishlanski studied producing at chapman university in california and graduated after producing five high-budget, award winning, short films. Ossie worked with Grammy winning directors and was mentored by some of the most influential professionals in hollywood such as harry ufland, Michael Phillips, and dawn Taubin. Ossies experiences range from the various stages of production to development and the business side of the film industry. She interned with award winning screenwriter Steve Zailian and The Gersh Agencys literary department. later she worked for TV producer and manager Rob Golenberg at Scripted World. These days Ossie is busy developing two comedies in Israel.

productionKishlanski Productions 20 Adam hacohen Street, Apt. 2, Tel [email protected] [email protected]


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synopsisNeil, 27, is a gifted classical musician suffering from mental illness and undergoing rehabilitation after a number of traumatic years in which he was in and out of a mental hospital and almost entirely cut off from society. When his childhood friend, Alon, surprises him with an offer to join his band for a tour in europe, Neil suffers a manic attack. Tom, 24, is hospitalized in a closed eating disorder wing. She runs into Neil and charms him with her winning smile, getting him to help her escape. The two embark on a nocturnal journey that reveals their illnesses, their passions, and their dreams of going back to being the people they were, before their minds betrayed their hearts.

director Ram Nehari Writer Nitai Gvirtz Producer Yifat Prestelnik

Genre (eccentric) romantic comedy Audience Youngsters Production Status closing production package

estimated shooting date December 14 Time 90 min. language hebrew estimated budget $350,000

existing financial arrangements & source israel Film Fund - $110,000

06 Nils

directors biographyGraduate of the Faculty of Film and Television at Tel Aviv university. Wrote and directed (with Tamar Marom) the series a star shines over the heart (2001); directed and co-wrote the series love hurts (2005), winner of two Israeli Film and Television Academy Awards, and of the haifa Festival (2004); directed and co-wrote the series imale (2006-2007), winner of five Israeli Film and Television Academy Awards, including for Best director; director of the series Mekimi (2013), based on a book by Noa Yaron-dayan. The series participated in the Series Mania Festival at Forum des Images, Paris, and at the Input Television conference (2014) in helsinki; Script editor on dana Modans series ananda, airing on hot (first and second seasons).

directors STATMENTI tend towards eccentric rom-coms, though I detest romance and am a terrible cynic. For many years I mentored and directed short films made by mentally ill people. neils is based on these experiences and encompasses all of my obsessions; the things that bother me, and the things that make me laugh. Its important that this film be funny. Making people laugh is my battle for self-respect; making them cry is begging for pity. I wanted characters that are chemically and emotionally unbalanced. They dont undergo any epiphanies, and the adventures they go on are small, and occasionally pathetic. Their dreams are bound to fail, but because I do love a good rom-com, they do emerge. Theyve met one another.

Yifat PrestelnikRam Nehari

company & producer profileYifat Prestelnik Films (since 2003) is a boutique production company specialized in feature films & television series. YPF has unique and long-term relationships with its directors and screenwriters and has the ability to turn a rough idea into a final product. Among its features: three Mothers, the Fifth heaven, and TV series: Weeping suzanne, Mekimi. All participated in international festivals and won prizes.

productionYifat Prestelnik Films lTd 3rd Tyomkin Street, Tel Aviv, Israel +972.3.5663882 / [email protected]


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synopsisManny (35) leaves the house of his best and only friends Ronnie (35) and didi (33). A Girl (29) passing by says something to him and they have a short chat. The next day he is summoned by the police, shown photos of him talking to the girl and is asked what the nature of their connection is. he says he does not know her. It turns out she is a drug dealer who also works in the Israeli Parliament. She lures him to a vacation cabin near the lebanese border, drawing him out of his life on a route of self-discovery that illuminates a radical political reality (or fantasy).

director & Writer Joseph El Dror Producer Liran Atzmor

Genre Drama Audience hetro Production Status Pre- production estimated shooting date november 14

Time 90 min. language hebrew estimated budget $914,000 existing financial arrangements & source

israel Film Fund - $600,000, channel 10 - $100,000

07 No Blood

directors biographyWriter translator and director, has created notable works for theatre, TV and film, such as The obvious, a speck on the eyelash (co-directed with Sivan Arbel), and the international prize winning the chamber Quintet (4 seasons) to name a few, and many other published and produced writings and translations such as Waiting for Godot and chekhovs the seagull.

directors STATMENTno Blood is a story about a guy who goes after an impossible fantasy only to find that what he was looking for might be very near and available. In a broader sense, though, no Blood is a story about borders; the existence of borders, the absence of borders, the crossing of borders; borders of the state, of the heart, of friendship. Borders between the psyche of the individual and the psyche of the nation. living in a constant state of survival, have we internalized the national narrative so thoroughly we can no longer distinguish? In a totalitarian society the answer would be awful but simple. In a thriving democracy this very question can be unnerving, confusing, and breed fantasy and paranoia, both personal and political. While following the plot, the humor, the passion, the drama, the intricate fragile stories of love and loyalty between the characters, this fundamental dramatic question remains open: is this a love affair or a national security affair?

liran AtzmorJoseph el dror

company & producer profileFormer managing director and senior producer at Belfilms, Israel. Atzmor has produced programs for all major Israeli broadcasters as well as broadcasters and distributors in North America and europe including the BBc, ZdF-Arte, The history channel, and many more. credits include: the Yad Vashem Films, the inner tour and My stills. Atzmor also served as senior commissioning editor for Israels documentary channel (channel 8). Produced The law in these Parts by Raanan Alexandrowicz winner of Sundance World cinema Best documentary and Peabody 2013.

productionAtzmor Productions 86 Sokolov, Tel Aviv, Israel+972.52.8003362 / [email protected]


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synopsisIn 1977, on the eve of President Anwar Sadats visit to Jerusalem, Tirza Atar, 36, poet and author, mother of two small children, jumped to her death from her apartment window. The daughter of Israels national poet Nathan Alterman and actress Rachel Marcus, she spent her life trying to establish herself as a poet in her own right. The film, set around the final day of Tirzas life, focuses on her relationship with her father, who carried on a long, tormented affair with painter Tsila Binder. Alterman represented Israels cultural elite in the 1960s and 1970s: authors, artists, and poets responsible for Israels inalienable artistic assets, enriching the nation, but also bringing a heavy weight to bear upon their children.

director & Writer Dina Zvi-Riklis Producer Yifat Prestelnik / Eran Riklis

Genre Drama Audience General public Production Status Financing estimated shooting date april 15

Time 100 min. language hebrew estimated budget 840,000$ existing financial arrangements &

source united king Films - 280,000

08 Poppies in October

directors biographydina Zvi Riklis is a writer/ director, a graduate of the Theatre department of Tel Aviv university. her feature films: the Fifth heaven (2012), three Mothers (2006), a story that Begins With a snake Funeral (1994) all screened at various international films festivals. her short films such as look out (1991), Purple lawns (1998), the Postwoman, (2002) the Witch from Melchet Street (2004) also screened successfully in many international films festivals.

directors STATMENTThe english-speaking world had Sylvia Plath, and Israel had Tirza Atar. At first there was a black and white photo; a woman holding her beautiful face, sadness emanating from her eyes. Then there were the poems, wonderful and deep, happy and sad. long before reality stars became cultural heroes, poets were the true celebrities. I have been intertwined with the character of Tirza Atar for the last two years, trying to decipher her delicate, lyrical soul, which never found its place in the world. A woman who had everything and nothing at the same time. A woman in the shadow of her father, the nations poet, a woman who could not tolerate the darkness and chose to end her pain.

Yifat Prestelnik eran Riklisdina Zvi-Riklis

company & producer profileYifat Prestelnik Films (since 2003) is a boutique production company specialized in feature films & television series. YPF has unique and long-term relationships with its directors and screenwriters and has the ability to turn a rough idea into a final product. Among its features: three Mothers, the Fifth heaven, and TV series: Weeping suzanne, Mekimi. All participated in international festivals and won prizes. led by one of Israels most acclaimed film makers, eran Riklis Productions produced The syrian Bride, lemon tree, Zaytoun, Vulcan junction, cup Final, the truck (TV series), until tomorrow comes, Miral and co-produced three Mothers, Burning Muki and more. eRP focuses on international co-productions with an emphasis on stories that travel and can reach a wide, global audience.

productionYifat Prestelnik Films ltd / eran Riklis Productions ltd 3rd Tyomkin, Tel Aviv, Israel+972.3.5663882 / [email protected]


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synopsisShuli, dalia, Ruti, Miri, Sharon. Five women, five protagonists, of different ages, at different stages of life, with nothing in common except a random encounter with a man called Neta. In each story, the human body expresses a psychological problem, and behind each story lays a mother-daughter relationship, at times covert and at times overt. In each story, the encounter with Neta will have an impact on the female protagonists, as they will also have an impact. Gradually Neta too assumes a lead role in the film, and we realize that we are portraying a significant period in his life.

director Nir Bergman Writers Nir Bergman & Eran Bar-Gil Producers Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi,

Tami Leon Genre Drama Audience +14 Production Status Fundraising estimated shooting date

october 14 Time 90 min. language hebrew estimated budget $2,000,000 existing financial

arrangements & source israel Film Fund - 2,000,000 ils, jerusalem Film & tV Fund - 1,000,000 ils

09 Saving Neta

directors biographyNir is a leading and respected Israeli director and writer for film and TV. Among his worksBroken Wings (2002) writer & director, distributed worldwide by Sony classics, won best Writing and directing Awards at The Jerusalem International Film Festival, as well as the Grand Prix Award for Best Film, Tokyo International Film Award, the Panorama Audience Award and more. in treatment (2004), drama series, co-creator, writer & director, the series was sold to hBO and won the emmy Award. intimate Grammar (2010), writer & director, won the Tokyo Grand Prix for Best Film and Best Film Award at Jerusalem Film Festival. Yona (2014), writer & director.

directors STATMENTThe screenplay for saving neta was inspired by eran Bar-Gils book, iron. I was moved by the characters and the metaphors I discovered in the stories. So I reduced the book to five stories and wrote a screenplay. All the stories deal with the modern family and thus, the screenplay raises questions such as What is parenthood? What is family? What is love?. At its finale, at a concert hall, while the parents and children are preparing for the show, we lose our protagonists in the crowd. every family in the hall is now a story, and each person a hero.

chilik Michaeli Tami leon Avraham PirchiNir Bergman

company & producer profileucM was established in 2006 by the founding partners: chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi & Tami leon. For many years they have been working with leading companies in the entertainment world in Israel and abroad. ucM films have run the major international film festival circuits, reached a worldwide audience and sold internationally. Among its recent films: Yona (2014) director: Nir BergmanDancing arabs (2014) director: eran Riklis Big Bad Wolves (2013) directors: Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshalesthe Matchmaker (2010) director: Avi Neshera Matter of size (2009) directors: Sharon Maymon & erez Tadmor.

productionunited channels Movies 76 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv, [email protected]


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synopsisAmnon Geffen, lives with a musician partner and is secretly in love with hadas. Amnon is summoned to the Third lebanon War. At night, a hizbollah missile hits the unit - they are all killed except Amnon. he suffers shell-shock. he is being treated by a military psychiatrist. Amnon recreates himself as another character and become Yossi elephant (an Israeli rock star from the 80s). he begins performing although he does not know how to play or sing, and becomes a local phenomenon in Tel-Aviv. Meanwhile, Amnon becomes obsessed about hadas. When one day she asks him if he remembers her, Amnon loses it completely. In his last concert Why elephant? he concludes by saying: Thank you, I was Yossi elephant and leaves the stage.

director & Writer Nony Geffen Producer Itai Tamir

Genre Drama Audience 18-50 Production Status Pre-shooting, received funding from iFF estimated

shooting date november 14 Time 100 min. language hebrew estimated budget $600,000 existing

financial arrangements & source israel Film Fund - $100,000, Private investors - $50,000

10 Why Elephant

directors biographyNony Geffen was born in 1982 in Tel-Aviv. he started his career as an actor in television films and features, including its never too late by Ido Fluk (2011). In 2012 Geffen made his first movie not in tel aviv which he wrote, acted in and directed. not in tel aviv won the Special Jury Prize (Silver leopard) at the locarno Film Fetival. Filmography: Why elephant - Feature film script development granted by the Israel Film Fund Main actor in the award winning FIFF - Fribourg International Film Festival its never too late by Ido Fluk (2011). not in tel-aviv 2012 (fiction) - writer, director and main actor. Special Jury Prize (Silver leopard Prize) in locarno Film Festival.

directors STATMENTThe cinematic language of my film will be integrated in several styles of photography, which collectively will form a unified sense of atmosphere. The general style of the film Why elephant is scheduled to be shot during winter, a visual representation of the characters state of mind. This includes the urban landscapes as well as the vistas of the Golan heights. This will illustrate the level of confusion and non-military preparedness vis--vis the Israeli macho male ethic. By the end of the film, Amnon becomes an 80s rockstar. This part will be filmed with a lot of shots with motion and a strong flavor of rock-n-roll. At the same time I shall strive to represent an alternative picture of reality in Israel in the 2000s.

Itai TamirNony Geffen

company & producer profilelaila Films was established as boutique production company for high quality independent cinema intended for emerging Israeli and international filmmakers. As well as providing constant support from script to screen, we believe in an intimate approach to achieve personal, innovative and distinct cinema. Since its founding in 2010 laila Film produced: Policeman directed by Nadav lapid, not in tel aviv directed by Nony Geffen, sharqiya directed by Ami livne, alice directed by dana Goldberg, closed season directed by Franziska Schlotterer, arabani directed by Adi Aduan; laila also produced the documentary films translation and annonces directed by Nurith Aviv.

productionlaila-Films Ben Avigdor 20 POB 57511, Tel Aviv, Israel+972.72.2224660 / [email protected]


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synopsisYulia, 34, a Jewish hungarian just released from Bergen Belsen, lives in a dP camp. She lost her two boys and her husband. She is trying to become a woman again. Skinny, without hair, she meets charlie, 35, an attractive, anti-Semitic American intelligence officer. charlie needs someone to film the Jews: Yulia, a cinematographers widow, is perfect for the task, with her both ironic and sad humor. They are attracted to but hurt one another. charlie uses her for intelligence purposes while she becomes engaged to a Jewish man who kills former SS soldiers. Finally, attempting to escape from charlie, she decides to sail to Palestine. The end of the film will choose between chaotic, cruel reality and romantic comedy.

directors Naftaly Gliksberg, Yuval Granot Writers Yuval Granot, Original idea by Naftaly Gliksberg

Producer Naftaly Gliksberg Genre alleged documentary, romantic comedy Audience adults

Production Status completed script and raising funds estimated shooting date april 15 Time 90 min.

language english, hungarian, Yiddish estimated budget $1,200,000 existing financial arrangements &

source keshet tV - $134,280

11 Yuilas Film

directors biographyNaftaly Gliksberg director & producer. Among his works, i am shimon Peres, a film that tries to decode the image of the ninth President of Israel through monologues and archival materials (in final editing). under-lying anti-semitism incisive film that examines the contemporary Anti-Semitism in europe and the u.S. Fashion order a TV series that examines historical processes in Israel through fashion. Naftalys works participated in more than forty festivals around the world.Yuval Granot director & writer, his film julia Mia, won the haifa Film Festival, 2007. Also wrote & directed several TV series like the Good Guys, reds. Nowadays he is raising funds for karny, a historic, ironic comedy that is based on the true story of his father, Shmuel Katz, irgun headquarters member and advisor to Prime Minister Menahem Begin.

directors STATMENTA dP camp in Germany is not the most comic and romantic place, but it is where Yulias Film, a romantic comedy, takes place. After the war, concentration camp refugees rose from the ashes and loss. Yulia is one of these survivors. created from many stories, newsreels and testimonies of residents of the dP camps. Yulia is making a documentary while trying to become a woman again: the film is that documentary, accompanied by her voice over because she cannot record. The sounds and dialogues emerge when her imagination works, not her camera. The film floats between a lens, real footage and the fictive - imagined- scenes inspired by hollywood in the 40s. captured is every drop of sarcasm and pain of this elusive story and history.

Naftaly Gliksberg Yuval Granot

company & producer profileGlkscom ltd. was founded in Tel Aviv in 2010. The company produces documentaries, television dramas, and fiction film. Glikscom works with most broadcasters in Israel and has produced five series documentaries and five films. currently the company is ahead of the photographs of the first scripted TV series, writing a screenplay for a feature supported by the Rabinowitz Film Fund, and developing two other drama series. For the production of Yulias Film the company plans to take a partner with experience in producing feature films.

productionGlkscom ltd. levy Issac 11, Tel Aviv, Israel+972.3.5224583 / [email protected]/

aMal (hoPe) (daroma Productions) 52

MaDaMe YankeloVas Fine literature cluB (TRANSFAX Film Productions) 54

our econoMic situation (Sprio Films) 56

WeDDinG Dull (Gilady Nitzan Films) 58

WounDeD lanD (comeBack Films) 60

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synopsisBina (46), a religious woman from Jerusalem, arrives panic-stricken at the hospital after her son Oliel (25) was severely injured in a stabbing attack. This is the first time she sees him since he became secular and lost contact with the family. her husband, Meir (50) arrives later, only at their daughter esters (28) insistence. At the hospital, Bina meets Amal (24). While Meir searches for answers to revive Oliel, the two despondent women bond with one another. however, Amal hides from Bina and Meir that she is an Arab and that she is their sons lover.While waiting for Oliels revival, they will learn about truth, faith, understanding, acceptance, and love that can and perhaps should replace fear of the unknown.

director & Writer Miya Hatav Producer Elad Peleg

Genre Drama Audience +15 Production Status Post-production Time 80 min. language hebrew and

arabic estimated budget $430,000 Needed budget $150,000

12 Amal (Hope)

directors biographyGraduate of The Maaleh School of TV, Film & The Arts, Jerusalem. Selected films as a scriptwriter, editor and director: Mika, 2009, fiction, 27 minAwards: Best Fictional Film, Maaleh Graduation Awards 2008 Festivals: Jerusalem Film Festival (Wolgin) Summer 2008 Panda Bear Film Festival, Sichuan TV Festival 2009 di Frost culture Film Festival Jerusalem 2010 labor Film Festival, haifa cinemateque 2010 the Doll, fiction, 10 minTel Aviv International Student Film Festival

directors STATMENTJerusalem is a city where historical nations and people battle. Yet the hospital there is a space where people only want to recover and where conflicts are set aside. It is the natural setting for a plot exploring the question of what is so important about our religious or national identity. As a filmmaker who grew up in a conservative, religious household, I chose to tell the story through the eyes of Bina, Meir, and Amal, with the closed eyes of Oliel connecting them. The closed, nonjudgmental eyes succeed in bringing the parents closer to one another and to their son and opening up their eyes through Amal, a young Arab woman who just wants to be free and loved.

elad PelegMiya hatav

company & producer profiledaroma Productions strives to bring the individual back to the centre and produce films that deal with social issues. Our mission is to give a voice to the other, those who are not represented in the mass media. The company, founded in 2009, already has 13 projects for cinema and TV.Selected films: red leaves feature drama, 80 min, director: Bazi Getta. In post-production, funding: Israel Film Fund, Avi-chai foundation, Gesher Film Fund, The Israeli cable and Satellite council. cinema South Festival, Sderot, 2014. Mossad! feature comedy, 100 min, director: Alon Gur Arye. pre-production, funding: Jerusalem Film and Television Fund in co-production with united King.

productiondaroma Productions116 hadekel St. Moshav Kochav Michael, [email protected]


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synopsisInspired by the Israeli Nobel-laureate writer Shmuel Yosef Agnons novella the Mistress and the Peddler, Madam Yankelovas Fine literature club portrays the story of Sophie, an aging member of Madam Yankelovas club, a belles-lettres club for women only. The clubs weekly competition meeting is about who succeeds to bring the most beautiful, young and attractive man, who is subsequently executed and eaten at the festive meal that ends the evening. All official female club members despise men and have lost their faith in love a very long time ago. Their motto, There is no true love, confronts Sophie when she meets beautiful, gentle and young Joseph who falls in love with her and rocks her world. Now Sophie must decide between Madam Yankelovas Fine literature club - the center of her life - and her last chance of true love.

director Guilhad Emilio Schenker Writers Guilhad Emilio Schenker and Yossi Meiri

Producer Marek Rozenbaum Genre Drama, thriller, romance Audience +14 Production Status Post-

production Time 90 min. language hebrew estimated budget $735,000 Needed budget $126,280

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directors biographyGuilhad emilio Schenker is the director of the film lavan (white) that was screened at over 70 film festivals around the world, won 12 international awards and was broadcast in 10 countries. Mr. Schenker is a MFA Graduate of Tel Aviv university Faculty of the Arts - Film & TV department and scholar at the German Bursary program. Former head of programming at G.l.Z Radio, the most popular radio station in Israel. his previous short films shum and schatz were screened at many film festivals around the world. Madam Yankelovas fine literature club, supported by the Yehoshua Rabinowitz film fund is his first full length feature film.

directors STATMENTInspired by Nobel laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon novellas the Mistress and the Peddler, the original script was inspired by dark stories and canonical films.Our cinematic language takes its inspiration from Tim Burtons colorful fantasy worlds, Roman Polanskis mixed drama-horror genres and Pedro Almodovars female characters complexity.

Marek RozenbaumGuilhad emilio Schenker

company & producer profileMr. Rozenbaum established Transfax Film Productions in 1988 and produced over 50 feature films and international co-productions, among them award-winning films that have received worldwide acclaim. For 10 years Mr. Rozenbaum held the position of chairman of the Israeli Academy for cinema and Television, 6 years the position of chairman of Israels Film and Television Producers Association, and today is a member of its board, as well as member of the board of the european Film Academy. Mr. Rozenbaum is one of the most experienced film producers in Israel today.

productionTransfax Film Productions 3 Yagia Kapayim St. Tel Aviv, Israel+972.36871202 / [email protected]@transfax.co.il


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synopsishaifa, the downtown area. The old carmel Mountain side. The port.uri grabs a chance of catching a freight-ship, he wants to set out for the unknown. he is going down-hill, to the harbor. leaving his hometown, his memories. he is reflecting on his life, re-running some of his strongest memories of his life and his times. Moshe is out looking for a lost cause, unwinding the time out of his loom. Moshe is going up-hill. They are on a collision course. They once knew each other. Moshe was uris civics teacher. Will they meet? Will it change anything? Both of them and some others as well, are traversing the dozens of unique staircases of historic Mt. carmel.

director & Writer Elad Keidan Producers Eitan Mansuri, Elie Meirovitz

Genre epic chamber Audience all Production Status rouch-cut Time 110 min. language hebrew

estimated budget $500,000 Needed budget $50,000

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directors biographyBorn in haifa, works as a high-school teacher. anthem a short by Keidan won the first prize in the cinefundacion- cannes. he was part of the Atalier program- cannes. his first feature is in editing.

directors STATMENTour economic situation. An urban, existential fantasy describing the old neighborhoods of haifa on the slopes of Mt. carmel from the port upward. The film does this via two characters, an ex-teacher and his ex-pupil, who move toward each other. One from the top down, the other from the foot of the mountain upward. The main spaces of the film are dozens of stairs built into the mountain slope. Some are ancient, others are newer. The atmosphere and magic, urbanism and nature, the co-existence or lack thereof, the sunset, the decay, the existential forces in this area all serve as a point of departure and inspiration. It draws upon the approaches and inspiration of Altman, Kurosawa, Kiarostami, Perlov, Kishon and the non-cinematic inspiration of e. hillel, dylan Thomas, Beckett.

eitan Mansurielad Keidan

company & producer profileSpiro Films is an Israeli based Production company dedicated to producing artistically ambitious films and aims to promote expressive voices of the new emerging generation of Israeli writers and directors. eZ Films is specialized in the production of art-house films by new and veteran directors. The companys films have been selected to cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, locarno, Karlovy Vary film festivals, among many others.

productionSpiro films - Israel, eZ films- France94 Alenby St. Tel Aviv, [email protected]


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synopsishagit is a young woman with mental retardation who has a part time job in a toilet paper factory located in a deserted industrial area. hagit lives with her protective mother and longs to be independent. her biggest dream is to get married. hagit is in love with the infamous son of the factory owner. She does not understand that he is taking advantage of her love, sexually using her in secret, while promising her that they will get married. To her great disappointment, her wedding will become an event she will never forget.

director & Writer Nitzan Gilady Producer Nitzan Gilady

Genre Drama Audience 12+ Production Status Post production Time 90 min. language hebrew

estimated budget $600,000

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directors biographyNitzan Gilady is a director/producer/scriptwriter of the documentary films jerusalem is Proud to Present, in satmar custody and the last enemy. his films have received 13 international awards, participated in over 120 international film festivals and been broadcast over prestigious TV channels around the world, including: Sundance channel and ZdF-ARTe. The short fiction drama Queens up directed by Gilady participated in the international Jerusalem Film Festival and received an Audience Award at Sedicicorto - Forli International Film Festival. Mr. Gilady is a graduate of the Academy of arts circle in the Square (New York). he received a grant for the Art of cinema 2004 initiated by the Ministry of education, given to outstanding Israeli filmmakers.

directors STATMENTBeing different is a subject that has concerned me for as long as I can remember. It has followed me from a young age and I know it inside-out. 17 years ago my brother was diagnosed with a post-trauma disorder, resulting from his military service in lebanon. This created a major crisis in my family. All of us, and especially my parents had to deal with a new and unfamiliar reality. Their beloved son returned from the army broken and now they have to care for him like a small child. Since then, my brother has had difficulty coming to terms with his disability. This is the story from which the script evolved.

Nitzan Gilady

company & producer profileGilady Nitzan Films lTd is a young and innovative independent production company established by Nitzan Gilady in 1998 which produced his previous films. The company has brought all of Giladys work to the commercial channels in Israel and to prestigious TV stations all over the world. The company works together with the New Israel Foundation for cinema and TV, Soros documentary Fund and Makor Foundation.

productionGilady Nitzan Films lTd hamehoga St. 5, Tel Aviv, Israel+972.3.6826152 / [email protected]


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synopsisA brutal terror attack. A suicide bomber detonates a bomb on a Saturday night in the heart of haifa. The bomber is injured and rushed to the nearby hospital in critical condition, and with him many of the wounded attack victims. The burdensome situation that night leads to an intensive chain of events, serious doubts and bursts of emotion for many of the characters: the four police officers responsible for guarding the attacker at the hospital, the doctor who happened to be on duty that turbulent night, the efficient nurse working beside him, the group of injured people hospitalized in such close proximity to the terrorist and their family members who are naturally caught in the deep turmoil.

director Erez Tadmor Writers Erez Tadmor, Shlomo Efrati Producers Shemi Shoenfeld, Amitan Menelzon

Genre Drama Audience all audience from age 12 upward Production Status Post-production Time 100

min. language hebrew and arabic estimated budget $1,000,000

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directors biographyerez Tadmor studied film at the camera Obscura School of Art. his first short film, Moosh won awards at festivals worldwide. he and director Guy Nattiv directed a short strangers which won over 30 awards. They directed offside which won the 2006 Manhattan Short Film Festival. They directed a full length version of their short strangers which participated in dozens of festivals. In 2009 Tadmor directed a Matter of size with Sharon Maymon. In 2012 he directed with Guy Nattiv Magic Men a full length film starring Makram Khoury who won Best Actor at the Israeli Academy Film Awards. Wounded land his new film is in production.

directors STATMENTWounded land is a mosaic of Israeli society during a terror attack. The movie takes place in Israel in 2014, but tells of a difficult period Israel endured at the onset of the 21st century; the most brutal period of terror attacks in the countrys history. But the terror attack is just the backdrop of the decay in Israeli society caused by corruption, the police, criminal weapons dealers (who may sell weapons to our enemies), the populations impatience, racism and violence.

Shemi Shoenfeld Amitan Menelzonerez Tadmor

company & producer profileShemi Shoenfeld and Amitan Menelzon are both industry veterans, developing & producing feature films & TV since the 90s.

productioncomeBack Films 30 ehad Aam, Tel Aviv, Israel+972.35049440 / [email protected]@netvision.net.il

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PITch POINT 2014

acknowledgements

The ARTE International Prize International Relations ARTe will grant its prize to a project presented by a filmmaker within the Jerusalem Pitch Point. With this Award ARTe would like to show its commitment and support to productions from this part of the world.The grant will be awarded to a project/filmmaker whose originality, personal writing style and motivation are exceptional.

The CNC International Prize A Special Award will be granted to the Most Promising Film Project, courtesy of cNc France, with the support of centre National du cinma et de lImage Anime

The Van Leer Award

Thank YouSpecial Thanks to Our Panelists, Guests & Tutors: Roberto Olla, Rmi Burah, Andr de Margerie, edith Sepp-dallas, claudia landsberger, diana elbaum, Marie-Pierre Valle, Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, Bec Smith, christina Bentlage, Sonja heinan, Michel Zana, Andreas eicher, elie Meirovitz, Konstantina Stavrianou, Randy Manis, Ricky Tollman

Special Thanks to The Israeli Presenters, Producers & directors

Israel Film council: david Alexander, eti cohenMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Raphael Gamzu, Ofra Ben-Yaakov, Vered heller, uri Amitai, Pnina elalJerusalem Foundation: Mark Sofer, eyal Sher, hedva Foguel, daniel MimranJerusalem Film & Television Fund: Yoram honig, director. Galia Altaratz, Project ManagerThe Van leer Foundation: Jacqueline Tammenoms Bakker,Rien Van Ghent, Trude Maas, Andre Betting

ARTe France: Olivier Pre, Rmi Burah, Andr de Margerie, Annamaria lodato, Sylvie Bousselet, Fiona herrycNc: Frdrique Bredin, Pierre-emmanuel lecerf, Michel Plazanet, Batrice RodenbourThe Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem, The Jerusalem International Film lab: Rennen Schorr, Ifat TubiInstitut Francais de Tel Aviv: Olivier Tournaud

And a last and very special thanks to our partners The Israel Film Fund: Katriel Schory, david lipkind, haya Nastovic

The winning projects will be awarded with these special prizes

STAFFThe Jerusalem cinematheque and Jerusalem Film Festival Founder and President lia Van leercinematheque & Festival director Noa Regevdeputy director Nir Becher Artistic director elad Samorzikhead of Guests department eti TsickoPitch Point & Industry Meeting director elad GoldmanPitch Point & Industry Meeting Producer Moran ArziPitch Point Jury coordinator Ayellet Beck, Maya KatzirIndustry events coordinator Rotem Shochat

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