Guilhad Emilio Schenker

Guilhad Emilio Schenker ( he, גלעד אמיליו שנקר; born 2 October 1980)Lavan
Queens World Film Festival. is a Venezuelan-born Israeli filmmaker, producer, and the co-founder and CEO of international entertainment studio SIPUR.

Career

Since 1994, Schenker has been working in various roles in the Israeli entertainment industry.Matan Yaniv (12 June 2018)
An interview with Schenker
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During his mandatory IDF military service, he served as a producer for the IDF Radio Station Galei Zahal and won the Producer of the Year Award in 2000. After completing his service, he pursued to different roles across Keshet Media Group, Reshet and Channel 13 News.Schenker biography
Tiburn International Film Festival.

Schenker later returned to Galei Zahal and acted as the IDF radio's chief creative officer for six more years until 2013. Between 2014 and 2018, he served as the senior vice president at the Zappa Group, a media and music company.
In 2018 he was appointed as the CEO of Tadmor Entertainment.
He was the artistic director of the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival.

He achieved both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. He is a Berlinale Talents graduate of the Berlin International Film Festivalshort cv
Transfax. and was a scholar at the German bursary program of the Nordrhein-Westfalen's government.

Between 2013 and 2018, Schenker hosted the television show ''Living in a Movie'', which was broadcast on the Israeli Educational Television Network. The program comprises 170 interviews with prominent Israeli filmmakers. He lectured at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center and the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.

In 2019, Schenker joined Israeli production company Tadmor Entertainment as the company CEO. Under his leadership, Tadmor Entertainment secured a first-look deal with Amazon's MGM Studios and rebranded as SIPUR.

Filmography

During his academic studies, Schenker directed three 25-minute short films: ''Shum'', ''The Rebels'' and ''Shats'' - all of which participated in film festivals around the world.

Schenker's final project at Tel Aviv University was a 28-minute short film called ''Lavan'' which was produced by the Rabinovich Foundation. The film was inspired by a form of sensory deprivation known as White torture.

It tells the story of a prisoner who is incarcerated naked in a plain white room with a blank backdrop and only fed white food in order to drive him insane. It starred Razia Israeli, Sigal Rosh and Tomer Ben David and was shortlisted at the Oscars’ short film category.

The movie was directed by Schenker and co-written by him, alongside Yossi Meiri. Meiri also acted as the film's DOP and was awarded the best cinematography prize at the ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival in Paris.

''Lavan'' won 12 awards and was acquired for television broadcast in ten countries.

In 2017, Schenker directed his first feature film, ''Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club'', which was also co-written by Meiri. It starred Keren Mor, Hana Laszlo, Ania Bukstein, Yiftach Klein and Lea Koenig - in the titular role as Madam Yankelova. The film was nominated for six Ophir Awards and won two: Best Costume Design and Best Makeup.

It participated in film festivals across the world
and was sold to HBO Europe.

(17 June 2019)
Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club was sold to HBO Europe
Walla.

References

External links

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* Frank Scheck (20 June 2019)
A women's literary club has a secret murderous agenda in Israeli director Guilhad Emilio Schenker's darkly comic horror film
The Hollywood Reporter
* Tom Brook (25 February 2016)
Israeli cinema: From conflict to fantasy
BBC
"Living in a Movie"
YouTube

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1980 births
Israeli film directors
Israeli male screenwriters
Israeli LGBT screenwriters
Living people
Film people from Tel Aviv
Israeli secular Jews
Tel Aviv University alumni
Venezuelan emigrants to Israel