Roni Katzenelson – One of the senior cinematographers of Israel, graduate of Beit ZviSchool for the Performing Arts, a teacher at the University of Tel Aviv, Sapir College and The Ma'ale School of Television, Film and the Arts. He was awarded the Golden Len Prize, the Docaviv Photography Prize and The Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum Prize. He has filmed numerous pictures, among them: Izkor – Slaves of Memory, Three Sisters, White Lies, Gevald! and Bangkok Bahrain. In the last four years he has been part of a uniquely important large scale project – Following the Concealed Holocaust.
Michel Ciment – Honorary associate professor of American Studies at the University of Paris 7, member of the editorial board of Positif, radio journalist at France Culture and France Inter. The author of some twenty books about cinema. Among them: Kubrick; Le Dossier Rosi; Kazan par kazan; Le livre de Losey; Les Conquérants d’un nouveau monde; Le Cinémaenpartage. He is also the co-author of the film portraits A 65% Perfect Man, Billy Wilder with Annie Tresgot, Elia Kazan, an Outsider and All about Mankiewicz with Luc Beraud, and Chronicle of a Film Foretoldwith Christine Lipinska. He’s been a jury member at Cannes, Venice, and Berlinale.
Janos Szasz –One of the today's most gifted Hungarian filmmakers, Janos Szasz was born in Budapest and studied drama and stage direction at the Academy of Theater and Film Arts. Szasz made his name with the films Woyzeck and The Witman Boys, and in 2007 was the guest of the Haifa IFF with Opium: Diary of a Madwoman. He has directed numerous theatrical productions and was the Director of the American Repertory Theater Institute.
Alma Ganihar– Screenwriter, playwright, and author. She wrote the scripts for The Ambassador's Wife, The Fifth Heaven, Three Mothers, The Witch from Melchet Street, and Ras Pina, among others. She was awarded development grants for many screenplays, all of which are now in progress. In 2012 she published her novel GPS at Am Oved Publishing House and won The Tova and Yitzhak Wiener Award for it. Her short stories have been published in various periodicals. Her most remarkable theatrical plays are: The Captive Women (2001), The Wild West (2008), and The Silwan Peacock (2015) – and for the three of them she received prizes and awards.
Salwa Nakkara– Born and raised in Haifa, graduated from Beit ZviSchool for the Performing Arts in 1980. She has played in most Israeli theatres: Haifa Theatre, Neve Tsedek, Tzavta, Habima Theatre, The Cameri Theatre, Herzelia Ensemble, and Al-Midan Theatre. She has participated in various films, among them: Divine Intervention, A Trumpet in the Wadi, and On a Narrow Bridge. Recently she has taken part in Udi Aloni's Junction 48, and in Ofira Honig Three Dog Night. She teaches acting and drama in the theatre department of the University of Haifa.
קבלו עדכונים על סרטים, אירועים, המלצות והטבות. לנרשמים תוענק הטבת הצטרפות!
