Congratulations to the selected project teams of the XR Jewish Life in Islamic and Arab Countries Open Call 08/2025 馃帀
A Pirate鈥檚 Portrait
Amit Gicelter – producer, Liron Narunsky – director, Vered Halutzi Chen – writer, Dotan Goldwaser – VR artist
ANDALOUSSIA
Nimrod Shanit – producer and VR artist, Oury Atlan – director, writer and VR artist
SHBKA
Ori Zeiger – producer, director and writer, Noam Karutchi – producer, writer and creative technologist
Each of these three outstanding projects will receive a production grant of 433,000 NIS from the Makor Foundation for Israeli Films and TV, the Israel Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts (Mifal HaPais), and the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in collaboration with Alma Films. In addition, this coming April the teams will participate in the XR Development Market at the NewImages Festival in Paris, with the support of the French Institute in Israel, where they will meet international production and distribution companies and seek additional partners and funding. Upon completion, the projects already have a designated exhibition venue: 聽Anu – Museum of the Jewish People, in close proximity to the broadcast of the documentary series on the Jews of Arab and Islamic countries on Kan 11. If you want to hear more about them, join us on our Open Industry Day next week. Full details and free registration in the link below.
We wish the creative teams great success and would like to thank our partners: Guillaume Mainguet, Audrey Pacart, Sarah Arnaud, Nir Saar, Maya Shekel, Tamar Yarom, Orit Shaham Gover, Arik Bernstein, Gili Gaon, Dana Pardo, Inbal Petel, Michal Houminer, 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
Registration - Here