Ilan Moskovitch (; born August 3, 1966), is an Israeli filmmaker, producer, director, casting director and acting instructor.

Biography

Ilan Moskovitch was born and raised in

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, second generation to immigrants from Romania,

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. His father, Meir, owned a kiosk in ancient Acre, near the Arabic cinema "Bustan", and his mother, Anna, worked as a hospital nurse. Moskovitch is a graduate of the cinema department of "Camera Obscura – School of Art" (1992). In the year after his graduation, he worked as a production coordinator and manager for various TV projects, working with the directors Dan Wolman,

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, and others. In 1995 he met the international Israeli director

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. Moskovitch worked as his assistant in the movie "Dvarim," and since then the two cooperated in more than twenty-five movies, many of which were feature films for cinema, including " Free Zone", "

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", " Alila", "Carmel", "

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", " Disengagement", " Kippur", "Eden", " Kedma", "Yom Yom" Four of those films: "Kadosh (1999), "Kippur" (2000), Kedma" (2002) and "Free Zone" (2005), participated in the Official Competition of the

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(in which Moskovitch was the artistic consultant and the casting director). Moskovitch was the casting director in the film " Free Zone" in which

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won the Best Actress Prize in 2005 at the Cannes Film Festival, for her role in the film. Promised-land

Moskovitch produced documentary films with Gitai, among them "Tapuz", "The Arena of Murder", "Golan Diary", "Milim" and a

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entitled "The Public Residence of The Fifties", which was shown at the

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and at the

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. Besides his work with Amos Gitai, he established in 1997 the production company "Cinemax" along with director David Noy; he produced the films "Peach", "What Now?", and "Arlekino Behind The Masks". In 2001 he produced commercials and communication videos with the journalist David Gilboa, for the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection,

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, Shahal,

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and

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. In 2003, he established "Impro" – Acting Studio for Cinema and TV with his partner, theater director Avi Malka. In 2008 he produced the feature film "Who kidnapped

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?", directed by Avi Malka. This is the first full-length feature film produced by an acting school in Israel, in which all the major and lead roles were acted by third year graduates. In 2009 he produced the documentary film "The Ambassadors", directed by Tal Agassi for Israel Channel 8. 11-09-01-gitai-05-g

Together with Eran Paz he produced the documentary film "Jeremiah", directed by Eran Paz. The movie won the Best Director Prize Award for Documentary Film in the

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2010. In 2013, together with Dan Bronfeld, Moskovitch directed and produced for Channel 8 a documentary film entitled "Appolonian Story". The film is about a man who built his home in a cave and lived there for forty years. The film participated in film festivals around the world, including

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, Jerusalem Film Festival, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, and

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. In the same year, he worked on Giati's film "

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," in which he served as the casting director. The film participated in the main competition at the

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. It's 81 minutes long filmed in a one shot. The actors include

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, Assi Levy,

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, Shadi Srour, and Norman Issa. In 2015, he was the casting director and the artistic consultant for Amos Gitai's feature film " Rabin, the Last Day," about Shamgar Commission, which investigated the circumstances leading to the assassination of Israeli's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, twenty years ago. The film participated at the

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- Official Competition 2015 as well as the

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, 2015. In 2017, he worked as a producer on the film "Holy Air," with director Shadi Srour. The film participated in the official competition in the

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, participated in the

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and won

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as best debut in the national competition of the

of 2017. It was acquired for distribution in North America by

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. Srour and Laetitia Eido played the main roles. In 2018, he was the casting director of the movie "A Tramway in Jerusalem" directed by Amos Gitai. The film participated in the

. In 2020, he was the casting director of Gitai's movie "

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." The plot transpires through a night in nightclub in Haifa. The film participated in the competition at the Venice Film Festival. In 2024, he was one of the producers of Gitai's movie "Shikun," an Israel-Frence-Swiss-Brazil-United Kingdom co-production starring

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. The film participates in the

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. Moskovitch has worked with well-known Israeli film actors, among them:

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, Hanna Maron,

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nicknamed ''The First ...

, Samuel Calderon, Liron Levo, Uri Klauzner,

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. Moskovitch has also worked with international film actors such as:

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Natalie Portman Natalie Hershlag{{efn, Some Hebrew sources claim that her birth name was "Neta-Lee Hershleg" ({{langx, he, נטע-לי הרשלג) and later, her first name was Americanized to "Natalie". {{Cite news , last=Shamir , first=Oron , date=August ...

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( Almodovar Films),

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( La Femme Nikita),

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.Cast of the movie "Promised Land"
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Filmography

References

External links

Moskovitch Official site

"Apollonian Story" official site
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Moscovitch in Cinemotions
* (June 10, 2014)
"Questions and answers with Ilan Moskovitch"

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. About the movie "Apollonian Story":
"Apollonian Story"
at the

"Apollonian Story"
at the

. * Doyle, Ronan (April 2, 2014)
"Full Frame: Apollonian Story Review"
at the Next Projection. About the movie "Holy Air": * (November 16, 2017)
Interview: ‘Holy Air’ is comedic commentary set in Nazareth
Hollywood soapbox. {{DEFAULTSORT:Moskovitch, Ilan 1966 births Israeli Jews Israeli film producers Israeli film directors Casting directors Living people