“False Flag” director Oded Raz is set to direct “Jerusalem 67,” an epic period thriller retelling Israel’s unlikely victory during the Six Day War in 1967. The long-gestating project is getting ready to shoot on location in Jerusalem on Aug. 16 and is being produced by New York-based Joseph Schick, a U.S. lawyer who started developing it over a decade ago.
Yael Grobglas (“Supergirl”) is in advanced negotiations to play the lead role as a civilian haunted by a painful childhood who leaves her family to serve on the frontlines of war. Itzik Cohen, whose acting credits include “Fauda” and “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” is in advanced negotiations to join the cast.
The key crew includes cinematographer Daniel Miller, who won the Israel Film Academy’s Ophir Award for “Fig Tree” and production designer Yoram Shayer, who won Israel’s equivalent to the Oscars twice with “Ish HaHashmal” and “Turn Left at the End of the World...
Yael Grobglas (“Supergirl”) is in advanced negotiations to play the lead role as a civilian haunted by a painful childhood who leaves her family to serve on the frontlines of war. Itzik Cohen, whose acting credits include “Fauda” and “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” is in advanced negotiations to join the cast.
The key crew includes cinematographer Daniel Miller, who won the Israel Film Academy’s Ophir Award for “Fig Tree” and production designer Yoram Shayer, who won Israel’s equivalent to the Oscars twice with “Ish HaHashmal” and “Turn Left at the End of the World...
- 5/12/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Avi Nesher’s drama premiered in Toronto.
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Avi Nesher’s Israeli hit The Other Story from Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited.
The Other Story is enjoying an extraordinary run in Israel, where it is approaching $7m at the box office, and recently won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the Israeli Film Festival, where Nesher received the 2018 Iff Cinematic Achievement Award.
The film premiere in Toronto and stars Yuval Segal as a man who connects with his ex-wife to investigate why his formerly fun-loving daughter has enrolled in an ultra-orthodox seminary.
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Avi Nesher’s Israeli hit The Other Story from Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited.
The Other Story is enjoying an extraordinary run in Israel, where it is approaching $7m at the box office, and recently won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the Israeli Film Festival, where Nesher received the 2018 Iff Cinematic Achievement Award.
The film premiere in Toronto and stars Yuval Segal as a man who connects with his ex-wife to investigate why his formerly fun-loving daughter has enrolled in an ultra-orthodox seminary.
- 11/28/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The trailer for Avi Nesher’s “The Other Story” has been released after it was announced Tuesday that the film will world premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto Film Festival.
The screenplay was co-written by Nesher and Noam Shpancer, the clinical psychologist and novelist. It is based on a true story. It centers on two rebellious young women, one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of religion; the other desperate to escape her oppressive religious upbringing and embrace sexual and spiritual freedom.
“Both women must confront the tension between self-assertion and tribal affiliation as they negotiate dueling fundamental human desires: to be, and to belong,” Nesher said in a statement.
The film stars Tribeca Film Festival best actress award winner Joy Rieger, and European Academy best actor award winner Sasson Gabai.
Each of Nesher’s most recent four features – “The Secrets,” “The Matchmaker,...
The screenplay was co-written by Nesher and Noam Shpancer, the clinical psychologist and novelist. It is based on a true story. It centers on two rebellious young women, one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of religion; the other desperate to escape her oppressive religious upbringing and embrace sexual and spiritual freedom.
“Both women must confront the tension between self-assertion and tribal affiliation as they negotiate dueling fundamental human desires: to be, and to belong,” Nesher said in a statement.
The film stars Tribeca Film Festival best actress award winner Joy Rieger, and European Academy best actor award winner Sasson Gabai.
Each of Nesher’s most recent four features – “The Secrets,” “The Matchmaker,...
- 8/14/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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