Thursday | 21/10/2021 | 14:00 | Cinematheque - Hall 2
An alumna of the Berlinale Script Station, the Locarno Filmmakers Academy and more recently the Jerusalem International Film Lab, Elinor Nechemya is a writer and director based in Tel-Aviv. Her latest short film If It Ain’t Broke (2021) premiered at the Semaine de la Critique of Festival de Cannes. Her previous shorts Our Hearts Beat Like War (2020) and Everlasting Mom (2017) both premiered at TIFF and were screened in Locarno, Sarajevo, and Palm Springs. Island, her debut feature film (currently in development), was selected for the upcoming NEXT STEP program of the Semaine de la Critique.
As part of this focus, four films by Eleanor Nehemiah will be screened, there will be an artist class led by Efrat Corem, director and screenwriter, head of film study, the School of Sound and Screen Arts, Sapir Academic College, and Shiri Bar-On, director of the Southern Film Foundation, who will present the "Mentura" project, to promote artists from the south, and to accompany and develop short feature projects.
The event is in collaboration with the Southern Film Foundation of the New Film and Television Foundation, the Mitzpe Ramon Cultural Center, and the Southern Film Festival.
The Mentura program of the Southern Film Foundation project was first launched at the 2020 Southern Film Festival in collaboration with Smadar Zamir, the creator of the film "A Woman Sits on the Director's Chair," which inspired the creation of the Mentoring program.
