Guy Nattiv
Guy Nattiv (; born May 24, 1973) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and Film producer, producer who lives and works in the United States. His film Skin (2018 short film), ''Skin'' won an Academy Awards, Oscar for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, best short film at the 91st Academy Awards. As of March 2025, Nattiv, Moshé Mizrahi, Moshe Mizrahi, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor were the only Israeli directors to have won an Academy award. Early life and education Guy Nattiv was born on May 24, 1973. His grandparents were Holocaust survivors. He graduated in 2012 from Camera Obscura film school in Tel Aviv, Israel. Career Early career Nattiv worked in advertising early in his career. He served as head copywriter and then chief creative director for the advertising agency Publicis Groupe for seven years. Filmmaking He began his career as a film director and screenwriter in 2002 directing his graduate short film at Camera Obscura film school in Tel-Aviv, ''T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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73rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale (), took place from 16 to 26 February 2023. It was the first completely in-person Berlinale since 70th Berlin International Film Festival, the 70th in 2020. The festival added a new competition section for television series. The festival opened with American filmmaker and novelist Rebecca Miller's drama film ''She Came to Me''. A live video stream with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was part of the opening ceremony. On 21 February 2023, American filmmaker Steven Spielberg was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement by Irish singer-songwriter Bono. Spielberg's films were screened in the Homage section for the occasion. ''On the Adamant'', directed by French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert, won the Golden Bear. The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was awarded to ''Afire'' by German filmmaker Christian Petzold (director), Christian Petzold. The Silver Bear for Best Leading Pe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Moscow Jewish Film Festival
The Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival. It aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. In 2015, Moscow joined a list of cities that celebrate this festival. History 2015 The first Moscow Jewish Film Festival was held from June 14 to 17, 2015, at Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, a Documentary film center and cinema GUM. The festival was organized by Vanya Bowden, Rusina Lekuh, and Egor Odintsov. Sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Jewish Agency for Israel, UJA-Federation of New York, Roskino, and Ark Pictures. The jury was chaired by writer-director Konstantin Fam, and the other members were Rabbi :ru: Борода, Александр Моисеевич, Alexander Boroda, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia; :ru: Мци� ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ronit Elkabetz
Ronit Elkabetz (; 27 November 1964 – 19 April 2016) was an Israeli actress, screenwriter and film director. She worked in both Israeli and French cinema. She won three Ophir Awards and received a total of seven nominations. Biography Elkabetz was born in Beersheba in 1964 to a religious Moroccan Jewish family, originally from Essaouira. She grew up in Kiryat Yam. Her mother spoke French and Moroccan Arabic, but her father insisted on speaking only Hebrew. Elkabetz was the oldest of four children, with three younger brothers. Her younger brother Shlomi also became a director, and they worked together on the trilogy '' Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem''. Elkabetz never studied acting and started her career as a model. She divided her time between her homes in Paris and Tel Aviv. She married architect Avner Yashar, the son of prominent architect Yitzhak Yashar and singer Rema Samsonov, on 25 June 2010. In 2012, they had a twin son and daughter. During her final years, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ophir Award
The Ophir Awards (), full name: the Israel Film Academy Award, sometimes also known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named after Israeli actor Shaike Ophir, has been granted since 1990. The Academy Awards ceremony takes place every year in September, about four months before the announcement of the nominees for the American Academy Award. The winner of the "Best Film" award is sent as Israel's representative to compete for an Oscar nomination in the "Best Foreign Film Oscar Award" category. Out of the winners of the Ophir Award in the "Best Film" category over the years, 10 films have been chosen to be nominated for the Oscar Award in the "Best Foreign Film" category. History The predecessors of the award were the Israeli Film Center Award () and the Silver Menorah Award (). The first Israeli Academy Awards ceremony was held since ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Enterprises. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. The festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the September 11 attacks, September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2020, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival. The festival hosts over 600 screenings with approximately 150,000 attendees each year, and awards independent artists in 23 juried competitive categories. History The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, and Craig Hatkoff, in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2008 Sundance Film Festival
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 17, 2008 to January 27 in Park City, Utah. It was the 24th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. The opening night film was ''In Bruges'' and the closing night film was ''CSNY/Déjà Vu''. Films Out of 2,021 U.S. and 1,603 international feature-length films submitted for consideration, 121 were selected to be shown at the festival. For a list of films that were shown at the festival, see List of films at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Awards *Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - ''Trouble the Water'' *Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - ''Frozen River'' *Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - ''Man On Wire'' *Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - ''The King of Ping Pong, The King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)'' *Audience Award: Documentary - ''Fields of Fuel'' *Audience Award: Dramatic - ''The Wackness'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - ''Man on Wire'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - ''Captain Abu Raed'' *Di ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lubna Azabal
Lubna Azabal (born 15 August 1973) is a Belgian actress. Career Azabal was born on 15 August 1973 in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother."Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen. Belgische actrice Lubna Azabal schittert in ‘Incendies’." Cinefilm, Bloggen.be After studying at the , she began a theatrical career in Belgium. In 1997, she took her first film role when Belgian film-maker [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Manhattan Film Festival
The Manhattan Film Festival (MFF) is an annual film festival that was founded in 2006 by filmmakers Philip J. Nelson and Jose Ruiz Jr. Notable films and awards * In 2011, the festival screened ''White Irish Drinkers'', a film written and directed by John Gray, creator of the CBS series Ghost Whisperer. * In 2011, Jeff Stewart won Best Actor for his role in '' Under Jakob's Ladder''. Stewart is best known in the United Kingdom for his role as Reg Hollis in the ITV series The Bill. * In 2013, '' Yuck! A 4th Grader's Documentary About School Lunch'' was screened at the festival: a 20-minute documentary by 11-year-old Zachary Maxwell, an elementary school student in Little Italy, Manhattan Little Italy () is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, once known for its Italian American population. It is bounded on the west by Tribeca and Soho, on the south by Chinatown, on the east by the Bowery and Lower East Side, a ..., who used a hidden camera to document the sch ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Skin (47736387322)
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation. Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have different developmental origin, structure and chemical composition. The adjective cutaneous means "of the skin" (from Latin ''cutis'' 'skin'). In mammals, the skin is an organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of ectodermal tissue and guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments, and internal organs. Skin of a different nature exists in amphibians, reptiles, and birds. Skin (including cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues) plays crucial roles in formation, structure, and function of extraskeletal apparatus such as horns of bovids (e.g., cattle) and rhinos, cervids' antlers, giraffids' ossicones, armadillos' osteoderm, and os penis/os clitoris. All mammals have some hair on their skin, even marine mammals like whales, dolphins, a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jerusalem Film Festival
The Jerusalem Film Festival (, ) is an international film festival held annually in Jerusalem, It was established in 1984 by the Director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia van Leer, Lia Van Leer, and has since become the main Israeli event for filmmakers and enthusiasts. Over the course of ten days every summer, over 200 films from 60 countries are screened at the Festival, along with a variety of special events, panels, and meetings with prominent local and international filmmakers, as well as professional industry workshops and events. History The Festival was established by Israel Prize recipient and founder of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia Van Leer. After being invited to serve on the jury at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Van Leer decided to create Israel's first international film festival. Already in its first year, the Festival had the honor of hosting key cinematic figures such as Jeanne Moreau, Lillian Gish, Warren ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2003 Sundance Film Festival
The 2003 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16 to January 26, 2003. ''American Splendor'', a biopic of comic-book author Harvey Pekar, won the grand-jury prize. Steve Zahn and Maggie Gyllenhaal presented the awards in a ceremony televised live on the Sundance Channel. Unseasonably warm weather attracted record numbers of attendees, among them musician Bob Dylan. Films Awards * Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – ''Capturing the Friedmans'' * Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – ''American Splendor'' * Audience Award: Documentary – ''My Flesh and Blood'' * Audience Award: Dramatic – ''The Station Agent'' * Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth – '' All the Real Girls'' * Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth – ''What Alice Found'' * Special Jury Prize for Performance – Patricia Clarkson, ''The Station Agent''; ''Pieces of April''; ''All the Real Girls'' * Special Jury Prize for Performance – Charles Busch, ''Die, Mommie, Die!'' * Documentary Directing Award � ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Guy Loel
Guy Loel (Hebrew language, Hebrew: גיא לואל; born December 4, 1971) is an Israeli actor. Biography Guy Loel was born and raised in Ramat Gan. Already at Ohel Shem High School, he participated in a play "מתנערים" directed by David Steinberg. In the IDF he first served in the Artillery Corps (Israel), Artillery Corps and two years later moved to the IDF Theater. In 1993–1996 he studied acting at Beit Zvi. Participated in Plays on Habima Theatre: "''The Mandrake''", "Catch 22", "The Boys Next Door", "Improvisation Games", and "Stage Stories". Beit Lessin Theater: "News Flash", ''Scapino (play), Scapino'' and "Weekly Weekend with Tom". Cameri Theater: " Caviar and Lentils". Beersheba Theater : " Play It Sam". At the same time, he took part in plays at the Library Theater: "Our Boys" and "A Hatful of Rain". Participate in plays for children and youth "למשל שועל", "Mr. Zuta and the Apple Tree," "Election Jungle," "Danger," and "Tommy's Journey." In 1999, he fir ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |