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Director
and Script- Writer :
Yael Katzir
Production and
Photography :
Dan Katzir
Editing and
Script Editing :
Limor Pinhasov
Original Music
:
Avi Leibovitch
Supported by: Rabinowitch Film Fund, Film
Project
& The Jewish Memorial Foundation for Jewish culture
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YAEL KATZIR -
Director
Filmmaker, college
professor , wife and mother, Yael Katzir was
born in Tel Aviv in 1942 After completing the required
training in the Israeli army, Yael served as an officer in the IDF
until 1962. Studied at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, at UCLA, Los
Angeles, California and received her Doctoral Degree in History. She
completed a Masters at Boston University, MA, in Broadcasting and
Film.
Director of Beit Berl College Communal Cable Television Center, broadcasting regularly on Cable TV Channel 25, and Sattelite Channel
90 aired country wide. Previous head of History Department at Beit
Berl College, she is now a lecturer on film and history as well as
independent documentary filmmaker, director and producer; she is also
a published author.
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Filmography: PRODUCER ,
DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER:
The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe,
1987 / (13 min) 16mm; Harvard University.
Cambridge, MA, US
Jews in Uniform in world War II – 1988 /
(26 min) Video, Beit Berl College, Israel
Open Door – A Meeting Between Arab and Jewish Children - 1991
/ (26 min) Video, on behalf of the Ford Foundation
To Brave a Dream -The
Story of the American Colony in Jaffa,1992 / (30min) Video, Israel Broadcasting
Authority, Channel 1
Jerusalem Spirit and Matter 1993 /
(13 min) Video, on behalf of Land of Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
There Is A Place For Every One Elijah’s Cave on Mt Carmel –
1995 / (26min) Video, Haifa International
Film Festival; Israel Channel 1 TV
Lake of Galilee from the Window of Rachel – 1996
/ (16 min) Video, for Tourist Center, Kinneret, Israel,
Channel 2 TV, 2001
It Is Hard To Choose ¬ - 1998 / (25
min) Video, Cable Television, Israel
Company Jasmine, Women Officers School - 2000-1
/ (55 min) Video, Israel Channel 1 TV
2001-2 and Channel 2
TV 2003
Shivah For My Mother, Seven Days of
Mourning (55 min) Video,
2004 / Israel Channel 8, September 2004
RESEARCH AND SCRIPT
Christianity and Christians in Jerusalem
A Walk in Crusader Jerusalem
In Thy Gates, O Jerusalem, the City and the Temple Year Around Year
70
The Mystery of the True Cross
The Whistle
16mm films produced for Everyman’s University, Tel Aviv
CD ROM – SCRIPT AND CONSULTANT
A Pilgrimage to Jerusalem – 1993
Tyrel Media Productions, Tel Aviv
DRAMATIC SCRIPT
The Ring is Mine, Queen Melisend of Jerusalem - 1995
The Tear Bottle, The Road from Maine to Jaffa - 1992
Works in process
“New Moon” -To pray in our voice
The Sturggle of Women of the Wall.Producer Director.
To be finished 2005
The Yeddish Theartre in NY,documentary, Producer (to be finished
December 2004)
The Nest of Rama Lindheim, Documentary , Producer
director
(To be finished 2005)
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DAN KATZIR - Producer
DIRECTING
2004 The Yiddish Theater in America (Documentary Feature,
90 minutes)
2002 Today You Are a Fountain Pen (Fiction, 35mm, 30min)
Starring Len Lesser (“ Uncle
Leo” from the hit TV series Seinfeld) ;
Opened Opening Night of the San
Diego Jewish Film Festival.
1997 Out for Love … Be Back Shortly (Docudrama 55 min)
15 International Awards.
Nominated for Israeli Academy Award,
aired on Channel 4 (UK), HBO
(US), France 2…
1996 Junction (Documentary 25 min)
PRODUCING
2004 The Yiddish Theater in America
2003 Shivah on My Mother (Documentary Feature)
2002 Today You Are a Fountain Pen
2000 Company Jasmine.
1997 Out for Love… Be Back Shortly
WRITING
- Operation Joshua- fiction feature for producers Branko Lustig
and Phil Blazer
- Marryme.com – with Malina Saval – Finalist Sundance lab 2002
- Don’t Cut My Hair – Fiction feature
- Love is Always the Answer (Fiction -book, In negotiations with
publishers)
AWARDS
Today You Are a Fountain Pen
Best Short – Palm Beach international Film Fest
Best Independent Narrative – Da Vinci Film Festival
Diversity Award MMPA
Joyce Award – San Diego Jewish Film Festival
Company Jasmine:
RiverRun Intl. - Best Doc
Torrino Intl. Women Film Festival (ITALY)– Best Doc.
Out for Love… Be Back Shortly :
Nomination for Israeli Academy Award ; Best Jewish Identity film
– San Francisco Jewish Film competition ; Best Documentary –
Jerusalem Intl. Film Festival.(Israel) ; Jury Award – Leipzig
Intl Doc. Film Festival (Germany) ; Gold Plaque Award – Chicago
Intercom (USA) ; Gold Calf Award – CA (USA) ; Best Documentary –
N. Carolina Film Festival (USA) ; Jury Award – IFI Film Festival
(Israel) ; Journalist Award – Shanghai Intl TV Festival (China)
; Magnolia Award – Shanghai Intl. TV Festival (China) ; Jury
Award – Parnu Intl. Film Festival (Estonia) ; Jury Award –
Taiwan Intl. Doc Festival (Taiwan) ;NETPAC Award – Taiwan Intl
Doc Festival
FESTIVALS
Films played in over 100 Intl Film Festivals including :
San Francisco Intl, Santa Barbara Intl., Palm Beach Intl,
Houston Intl, Cleveland Intl, Denver Intl,Sedona Intl. Toronto
Intl Doc , Munich Intl. Doc , NY Intl Doc , Amnesty Intl,
Amsterdam Intl Doc, Hong Kong Intl, Singapore Intl, Shanghai
Intl. TV Taiwan Intl Doc,San Fran Jewish, Berlin Jewish, Miami
Jewish, Boston Jewish , Jerusalem …
EDUCATION
1999-2002 MFA Degree, American Film Institute, directing
program.
1993-1997 BA Degree Film Studies, Tel Aviv University, completed
with Honors.
1985-1986 Graduates Brookline High school, MA, USA
MILITARY
1987- 1991 Israeli Military - Paratroopers (Red Berets) unit
Commando drill sergeant ; Infantry officers course – served as a
Lieutenant
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