New Cinema South Jury 2024

Writes about cinema professionally since 2006 ("City Mouse", "Mako", "Close-up").Film critic for the Haaretz newspaper.
Founding director and editor-in-chief of the independent film blog "Srita" since 2010, winner of cultural grants for online magazines. Lecturer, judge and curator in the field of cinema in collaboration with film festivals in Israel and renowned cultural institutions in Israel and around the world.

Film director, screenwriter, and editor of feature and documentary films. Among the films she has directed: "Crows", "Tel Aviv Stories", "Abba Ganuv 3", "Noodle", "Doing Time, Doing Vipassana", "It’s About Time" and "Seven Blessings". She also directed the series "Falling on Your Feet".

Studied at the USP Universidades de São Paulo. Freelance film editor and sound designer in Munich since 1988.
2004 President of the Palermo Film Festival del Mediterraneo. Founding member of the German Film Academy DFA. Member of the European Film Academy - EFA.

Sound Designer and Editor a. o. DER HAUPTMANN (German Film Award »Best Sound Design«, European Film Award as »European Sound Designer«), FRATRICIDE (Silver Leopard Film Award Locarno) »Editing«

Since 2001-Lecturer at ifs international film school cologne, Germany, Mentor of the Study Program Sound Design/Film at ifs
international film school cologne,German

Since 2009 Professor for Editing at IFS international film school cologne, Germany.

Israeli actress, winner of the Israeli Television Academy Award. She has acted in, among others, the films of Avi Nesher ("Portrait of Victory", "The Other Story") and Adir Miller ("The Ring") and in the Danny Rosenberg television series ("Johnny and the Knights of the Galilee"). She won the best actress award at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Montenegro Film Festival. She was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the Ophir Awards and won the Best Actress in a Children's and Youth Series Award at the Ophir Television Awards.

Israeli film and television producer, owner of the production company "ZOA Films", with over a decade of experience in the industry. Among his notable productions: "Good Guys 1" and "Good Guys 2" directed by Erez Tadmor; "Oxygen" directed by Natalie Brown; "The Pool" directed by Amichai Greenberg and starring Yoram Gaon; the series "Girls Like Us" by Lee Gilat and Bat El Moseri; and the Yes series "Red Dawn", based on the events of October 7th.
 

An American/Israeli cinematographer who made history by becoming the first woman to win the Israeli Academy Award (Ophir) for cinematography (ASIA, 2020) and also the first to win the Israeli Emmy for Cinematography (CARTHAGO, 2023).
Other notable works are the series BAD BOY, the TIFF premiere created by Euphoria’s Ron Leshem and directed by Hagar Ben Asher. The Emmy-nominated, NORMAL, directed by Asaf Korman (HBO Max). The film WATCH LIST  was nominated for a Gawad Urian (Filipino Oscar) for cinematography. ASIA (2020), directed by Ruthy Pribar garnered nine Israeli Academy Awards and won Best Cinematogarphy at the Jerusalem and Tribeca Film Festivals. Daniella is a graduate of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Director, video artist and visual effects specialist, with a diverse portfolio that includes cinema, television and art.
He managed the effects department for various films, including "Waltz with Bashir" and "Conference of the Futurists". In 2016 he created the television series "Little Monsters" together with his wife Shani Melamed Nitzan, directed episodes of the series, and was its showrunner. His video works have been shown in cultural centers in Israel and Europe, and he collaborates with choreographers and musicians in creating video art for live shows and video clips.

In 2015 he founded Studio Potemkin, an animation and visual effects studio, together with Michael Faust and David Polonsky.

In 2021, he won the best animation award from the Israeli Academy of Cinema and Television for his work on the science fiction series "Sky".
 

Director and screenwriter, born in Haifa in 1962. Graduated from the Cinema and Television Department at Tel Aviv University. In 1991, with Ori Sivan, he created "Comfortably Numb" which won the best documentary film award at the Jerusalem Festival and the Ophir Award. In 1996, again with Sivan, he made his debut feature film "Saint Clara" which won six Ophir awards.

In 2001 he created “Made in Israel”, and in 2004 the series "The Materials That Love Is Made Of", which was the start of his unique use of animation. 2008 saw the culmination of four years of intense work in the form of the groundbreaking film "Waltz with Bashir", which won the Golden Globe and the César  award, and was nominated for an Oscar. In 2013, he created "The Congress", an international co-production in which he combined actors and animation, which won the European Academy Award. And in 2021, after a decade of work, his film "Where is Anne Frank", an international co-production that was nominated for the European Academy Award, was released.

Animation director and illustrator who specializes in translating stories into diverse visual languages, in both animated series and artistic and commercial films. Her new short film, "Pisces" (production: The Hive Studio), is screened at festivals in Israel and around the world.

Engaged in sound recording since the 1990s and teaches a field recording course at Tel Aviv University.
Active in the field of documentary and feature films. Among the films he has recorded: "Gett" by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, "Footnote" by Yosef Sider, "Light", "Far From His Absence" and "Mami" by Keren Yedaya, and "Days of Awe" by Yaron Zilberman. Worked on many television series, including "Teheran" by Danny Sirkin, "Timrot Ashan" by Oded Davidov, and "Closing Time". Recorded documentary films, including "Updated Diary" and "Conversations with Natan Zach" by David Perlov, as well as films by Ran Tal, Duki Dror, Julie Shlez, Guy Davidi, Hilla Medalia, Ruth Walk, Liran Atzmor and Reuven Hecker. He recently recorded the film “The Bibi Files” by Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney. He worked on documentary series, including "Road 90" by Anat Seltzer and Modi Baron, and many television reports - including the investigative program "Fact".
He won two Ophir Awards for feature film soundtrack and two awards from the Academy for Film and Television, as well as the Gadi Danzig award.

Film Consultant – Production, Distribution, Sales

He first started in Tv at TPS CINEMA as an intern in 1998 and then went on to developing, programming and buying feature films for 7 Tv movie channels, including four years as Head of Acquisitions for Cinema. He then joined the cinema distribution with Bac Films in 2007 to work in acquisitions. When Jean Labadie left the company, he joined him in launching Le Pacte, a new Distribution, International sales and Coproduction company. He was Head of Acquisitions there for 15 years, overseeing 250 theatrical releases. Through his tenure at le Pacte he was involved in the production of films as diverse as Heli by Amat Escalante, Only lovers left alive by Jim Jarmusch, Thelma by Joachim Trier or, Madre and As Bestas by Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
As of 2023, he started a new adventure to develop more personal projects, in production and distribution conultations.