Thursday | 10/11/2022 | 09:00-14:00 | Mishkan Ella - Main Hall
The Student Documentary Pitching Event, founded by Osnat Trabelsi and produced by the Israeli Documentary Forum and the Cinema South Festival is in its 18th year.
The enterprise promotes young filmmakers and their integration in the documentary film and television industries. Projects from all film schools in Israel are included and the filmmakers are prepared and receive advice before the event. Projects will be pitched to a lector committee comprised of representatives from broadcasting networks and film funds. The winning projects will receive production grants in the tens of thousands of shekels, courtesy of the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund and KAN – Public Broadcasting Corp.
Facilitator and mentor: Udi Nir, director, producer and representative of the Israeli Documentary Forum board ("Viral Dreams", "Golda").
Project management and accompaniment: Noga Chevion
Producer: Neta Elchalal
Photo credit: Rachel Shatz, from the film "Our Home". Winner of the 2021 student pitching event.
Participating Projects:
Nine lives
After a full and rich life, a sick father and his son document the last attempt at keeping him alive.
Director: Raphael Pomeranz | The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School
Time Machine
Seeking what to look at in a world where everything's been scrutinized. A quest for the answer to a muse in the family archive.
Director: Omri Morin | Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Black & white
Smadar was born in Romania and adopted by Miriam the kibbutznik. They never imagined their joint journey would be so dramatic.
Director: Yafit mamrayev | Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts - Beit Berl
Plaster
This is the story of a wounded, suicidal soul in recovery. The pain is universal and the hope is what sustains us all.
Director: Avishag Malki | Ariel University - School of Communication
My family curse
After all the women in her family have failed relationships, the director sets out on a journey to understand what went wrong and how.
Director: Aviya (Yaya) Kalifa | The Ma'aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts
Hahagana 10
Female senior citizens meet once a week at a community center in Beer Sheva for a theater class and embark on a journey to make their voices heard.
Director: Amit Erell | Sapir College
A soul in me
Batel (30), mother of six and film student, fights to prove to herself and the world that she can do it all.
Director: Batel Nudel | Torat HaChaim Film School
What's so Important?
An encounter between a unique, brokenhearted nationalist young woman creates a raw dialogue on self-image, love and borrowed time.
Director: Hadar Yoselewitz | The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television
Brosh Stand Alon
An 80s backup band that revolutionized Israeli music. Thought it produced an entire soundtrack, it opted to remain behind, in the shadows.
Director: Yonatan Rubinstein | Minshar School of Art