Three things you can do during Shavuot: Eat cake, Visit the DocAviv website, browse the program, and discover the films screening at this year’s festival, and Hurry and get your tickets before they sell out…
Here are our recommendations this year 😊
Arts & Culture:
Things Were Like That (Directed by Adi Arbel | Produced by Kastina Communications)
Panorama Section:
La’Isha – the Story of a Women’s Magazine (A film by Orit Merlin Rozhenzwaig and Anna Somershaf | Produced by Trabelsi Productions)
Shorts Competition:
Come What May (Directed by Ino Barel and Sahaya Villaluz | Produced by Bona Productions)
Ram Loevy Retrospective:
Ahmed Is a Movie Star (Directed by Doron Djerassi | Produced by Pardes Films)
Short Documentary Collection:
Soul Traces (Directed by Rani Bleier | Produced by Metaphor Ltd | Creators: Ella Hadar Lilian, Guy Gabriel Bavel, Gal Rochwerger, Jonathan Dumosc, Shai Baskin)
Warm congratulations to all the filmmakers, and happy Shavuot!
Despite everything that’s been happening here in our war ridden region, we are happy to share that five Israeli immersive projects participated last week at NewImages Hub in Paris, a leading market and festival for immersive storytelling.
👏 Representatives of the three teams, recipients of Makor Media Lab’s funding grants and participants in our latest XR incubator workshop, met with industry professionals, built new connections and sought out co-production partners. The projects are: A Pirate’s Portrait – Amit Gicelter, Liron Narunsky | Andaloussia – Nimrod Shanit, Oury Atlan | Shbka – Ori Zeiger, Noam Karutchi.
👏 Nofar Laor, the creator of The Burner Boys, a project developed on our XR workshop three years ago, was also looking for additional funding and met with industry professionals.
👏 Two completed projects produced with the support of Makor Media Lab, were selected for the Distribution Market, they are: Eddie and I – Maya Shekel | Echoes of the Jordan – Roy Kimhi.
Good luck to them and once again a big Thank You to our partners this year: Israel Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts – Mifal HaPais, The French Institute in Israel – The French Embassy in Israel, Kan – Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, NewImages Festival, Anu – Museum of the Jewish People, Alma Films.
Within this sequence of impossible events, while hoping that everyone has a safe place to be, we are very happy to share that WINTEROVER, the VR experience by Nir Sa’ar and Ido Mizrahy (produced by Blimey, a_BAHN, and Breezy Productions), premieres today at the prestigious SXSW Festival, where it will compete in the XR Experience Competition.
The Makor Foundation supports the independent Israeli
production of documentary films, narrative shorts,
animated shorts, and works created with new
technologies for current and developing medias.
The Foundation provides its support without bias and
irrespective of religious affiliation, race, gender, and
ethnic background, with the goal of engaging
the filmmakers’ full abilities to produce innovative,
ground-breaking, thought-provoking, and
consciousness-raising cinema.