Taskovski Films Sales has picked up documentary “My Sextortion Diary,” directed and produced by Patricia Franquesa. The film, which explores Franquesa’s reaction to an attempted digital blackmail that occurred in 2019, will have its world premiere at SXSW. Variety debuts the trailer, below.
In May 2019, a laptop belonging to Franquesa is stolen during a business trip in Madrid. After diligently filing a police report, her life goes on as usual until Aug. 1, when she receives a voice message from a friend. He notifies her that he has received a strange email with very personal pictures that seem to be of Franquesa. It is then that she realizes she is the victim of what is called sextortion.
An anonymous hacker accesses all the stored data in the stolen laptop and finds three very private photos of Franquesa. He threatens that if he doesn’t receive $2,400 he will mass-mail the pictures to...
In May 2019, a laptop belonging to Franquesa is stolen during a business trip in Madrid. After diligently filing a police report, her life goes on as usual until Aug. 1, when she receives a voice message from a friend. He notifies her that he has received a strange email with very personal pictures that seem to be of Franquesa. It is then that she realizes she is the victim of what is called sextortion.
An anonymous hacker accesses all the stored data in the stolen laptop and finds three very private photos of Franquesa. He threatens that if he doesn’t receive $2,400 he will mass-mail the pictures to...
- 2/27/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The sentencing of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh for the murders of his wife and son is unlikely to end the public’s fascination with the family: There are already TV specials, docuseries and podcasts about the slayings and at least two scripted shows on the way.
Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after being convicted a day earlier of killing his wife, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, and their youngest son, Paul. He was found guilty on all charges, including two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon in the commitment of a violent crime.
In June 2021, Maggie and Paul were found shot to death on the family’s estate in Colleton County, South Carolina. But the prominent family’s legacy began unraveling years earlier when questions arose following the death of Mallory Beach in a boating accident involving Paul, the unsolved 2015 death...
Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after being convicted a day earlier of killing his wife, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, and their youngest son, Paul. He was found guilty on all charges, including two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon in the commitment of a violent crime.
In June 2021, Maggie and Paul were found shot to death on the family’s estate in Colleton County, South Carolina. But the prominent family’s legacy began unraveling years earlier when questions arose following the death of Mallory Beach in a boating accident involving Paul, the unsolved 2015 death...
- 3/4/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hulu has released the official trailer for “Welcome to Chippendales,” starring Kumail Nanjiani as Somen “Steve” Banjeree, an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of the famous male-stripping empire, and quickly learns how unglamorous the live entertainment world can be.
Also starring in the series alongside Nanjiani are Murray Bartlett, Annaleigh Ashford, Dan Stevens, Juliette Lewis with Nicola Peltz appearing in a guest starring role.
The show comes from creator Robert Siegel, whose previous credits include “The Founder” and “The Wrestler.” Marvel Studios’ “Fantastic Four” director Matt Shakman directs the series. It is inspired by the events portrayed in the book “Deadly Dance: The Chippendales Murders,” by authors K. Scot Macdonald and Patrick MontesDeOca.
The series is set to premiere on the streamer on November 22. Check out the trailer below.
Also in today’s television news:
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HBO Max has announced the new Original documentary series “Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty.
Also starring in the series alongside Nanjiani are Murray Bartlett, Annaleigh Ashford, Dan Stevens, Juliette Lewis with Nicola Peltz appearing in a guest starring role.
The show comes from creator Robert Siegel, whose previous credits include “The Founder” and “The Wrestler.” Marvel Studios’ “Fantastic Four” director Matt Shakman directs the series. It is inspired by the events portrayed in the book “Deadly Dance: The Chippendales Murders,” by authors K. Scot Macdonald and Patrick MontesDeOca.
The series is set to premiere on the streamer on November 22. Check out the trailer below.
Also in today’s television news:
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HBO Max has announced the new Original documentary series “Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty.
- 10/19/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max has announced a November 3 release date for Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, a three-part documentary series on the sensational murder case involving one of South Carolina’s most prominent legal families.
The series directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan will unpack the twists and turns of a sprawling investigation that has seen lawyer Alex Murdaugh accused of fatally shooting his wife and his 21-year-old son Paul on the night of June 7, 2021. Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty and is expected to stand trial early next year in a potential death penalty case.
Several months after the killings, Murdaugh’s law firm forced him out after alleging he had misappropriated millions of dollars in funds belonging to clients and the firm. The case took another bizarre turn in September 2021 when Murdaugh claimed he had been shot in the head by an assailant near his home. He later admitted he...
The series directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan will unpack the twists and turns of a sprawling investigation that has seen lawyer Alex Murdaugh accused of fatally shooting his wife and his 21-year-old son Paul on the night of June 7, 2021. Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty and is expected to stand trial early next year in a potential death penalty case.
Several months after the killings, Murdaugh’s law firm forced him out after alleging he had misappropriated millions of dollars in funds belonging to clients and the firm. The case took another bizarre turn in September 2021 when Murdaugh claimed he had been shot in the head by an assailant near his home. He later admitted he...
- 10/18/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
More than 250 of Israel’s top filmmakers have signed an open letter, saying they will not seek funding from, nor cooperate with the recently–established Shomron (Samaria/West Bank) Film Fund, following the fund’s inaugural film festival in the occupied West Bank.
The filmmakers call on the Israeli Academy of Film and Television not to partake in “whitewashing the Occupation” ahead of the Ophir Awards — Israel’s Academy Awards — later this month. Read the full text of the letter below.
Among the signatories are multiple Academy Award winners and nominees. They have signed a public letter in which they state that they will not receive grants and will not participate in “lectura” (selection of films for development and production) or in professional events held by the Shomron (Samaria) Film Fund. The goal of the Shomron (Samaria) Film Fund, write the filmmakers, is “to invite Israeli filmmakers to actively participate...
The filmmakers call on the Israeli Academy of Film and Television not to partake in “whitewashing the Occupation” ahead of the Ophir Awards — Israel’s Academy Awards — later this month. Read the full text of the letter below.
Among the signatories are multiple Academy Award winners and nominees. They have signed a public letter in which they state that they will not receive grants and will not participate in “lectura” (selection of films for development and production) or in professional events held by the Shomron (Samaria) Film Fund. The goal of the Shomron (Samaria) Film Fund, write the filmmakers, is “to invite Israeli filmmakers to actively participate...
- 9/3/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Peacock has announced its True Crime Tuesday slate including originals Perfect World: A Deadly Game, Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run With Warren Jeffs, and Sins of the Amish.
The series kicks off on March 8 with Perfect World, a two-part docuseries that takes viewers inside the world of gaming as a group of friends are alerted to what appears to be a real-life murder. The group is on the hunt for the next 18 hours in search of the real identity and location of one of their closest friends who claims he killed his family to put an end to his killing spree.
The series is executive produced by Zak Weisfeld, Libby Richman, and Alex Weresow; co-executive produced by Elizabeth Gibson and Adam Linkenhelt and produced by Lusid Media.
Preaching Evil—premiering in the spring— tells the story of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs through the lens of his favorite wife Naomi Jessop.
The series kicks off on March 8 with Perfect World, a two-part docuseries that takes viewers inside the world of gaming as a group of friends are alerted to what appears to be a real-life murder. The group is on the hunt for the next 18 hours in search of the real identity and location of one of their closest friends who claims he killed his family to put an end to his killing spree.
The series is executive produced by Zak Weisfeld, Libby Richman, and Alex Weresow; co-executive produced by Elizabeth Gibson and Adam Linkenhelt and produced by Lusid Media.
Preaching Evil—premiering in the spring— tells the story of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs through the lens of his favorite wife Naomi Jessop.
- 2/23/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
“I think every part of our history is worth being reexamined,” argues Daniel Sivan, co-director of the documentary short “Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis,” which is currently streaming on Netflix. The film, which examines a secret military operation bringing Nazi soldiers to America during World War II, was recently shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards. Watch our exclusive video interview with Sivan and co-director Mor Loushy above.
The movie chronicles a secret military operation in which German prisoners of war were housed and interrogated under the watch of American soldiers, many of whom were Jewish refugees. One of those prisoners was Wernher von Braun, a decorated Nazi scientist who was later assimilated into American culture and ultimately became and integral part of America’s space program. The film includes interviews with some of the surviving American soldiers, who discuss the emotional and psychological toll of having to keep their...
The movie chronicles a secret military operation in which German prisoners of war were housed and interrogated under the watch of American soldiers, many of whom were Jewish refugees. One of those prisoners was Wernher von Braun, a decorated Nazi scientist who was later assimilated into American culture and ultimately became and integral part of America’s space program. The film includes interviews with some of the surviving American soldiers, who discuss the emotional and psychological toll of having to keep their...
- 1/11/2022
- by Tony Ruiz
- Gold Derby
Documentarians Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan have forged a career out of the exploration of historic events through first person testimony and re-enactment in the likes of The Oslo Diaries - which charted a secret 1992 meeting between Israelis and Palestinians - and Censored Voices, which saw soldiers recount their experience of the Six-Day War.
This time, they employ animation - that most malleable of mediums - to consider a secret Second World War military camp near Washington DC, whose details were classified for more than 50 years. The animation allows them not just to reconstruct the testimony of former soldiers who recounted their experience in National Park interviews in 2006, but to offer an emotional element through its style, like longer form documentaries Waltz With Bashir and Flee. This means they can connect the men's inner feelings with the physical documentation, so the salute of a hand is all we need see.
This time, they employ animation - that most malleable of mediums - to consider a secret Second World War military camp near Washington DC, whose details were classified for more than 50 years. The animation allows them not just to reconstruct the testimony of former soldiers who recounted their experience in National Park interviews in 2006, but to offer an emotional element through its style, like longer form documentaries Waltz With Bashir and Flee. This means they can connect the men's inner feelings with the physical documentation, so the salute of a hand is all we need see.
- 1/1/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Semi-animated Netflix documentary short reveals the secret story of the Jewish soldiers who watched over prisoners of war on US soil
Too vast in scope to be contained within war drama, the Holocaust movie constitutes an entire genre unto itself, collecting a potentially infinite number of tragedies great and small. The history of the 20th century’s most massive atrocity comes with thousands of footnotes now gradually expanded upon by media depicting the unsung courage and untold evil. Israeli documentary film-makers Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy singled out one such extraordinary tale for their latest joint project, Netflix’s short film Camp Confidential, drawing attention to a highly covert military operation only recently released from behind redaction-marker bars. “The first thing is, when producers Benji and Jono Bergmann approached us with this and told us of the story, we didn’t believe it,” Sivan tells the Guardian. “It was just so out-there.
Too vast in scope to be contained within war drama, the Holocaust movie constitutes an entire genre unto itself, collecting a potentially infinite number of tragedies great and small. The history of the 20th century’s most massive atrocity comes with thousands of footnotes now gradually expanded upon by media depicting the unsung courage and untold evil. Israeli documentary film-makers Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy singled out one such extraordinary tale for their latest joint project, Netflix’s short film Camp Confidential, drawing attention to a highly covert military operation only recently released from behind redaction-marker bars. “The first thing is, when producers Benji and Jono Bergmann approached us with this and told us of the story, we didn’t believe it,” Sivan tells the Guardian. “It was just so out-there.
- 11/3/2021
- by Charles Bramesco
- The Guardian - Film News
The Oscar-qualifying festival will run in cinemas from July 1-10.
Israeli documentary festival Docaviv will run as a hybrid event from July 1-10, with screenings both in Tel Aviv’s cinemas and online.
It will play over 100 Israeli and international documentaries in both on-site and online screenings. All on-site screenings will run in compliance with local regulations at the time.
Scroll down for a list of the Israeli titles in the festival
Cinemas in Israel are currently allowed to open with a maximum capacity of 75%, or 300 people per room. Cinemagoers are required to present a ‘green pass’ showing they have...
Israeli documentary festival Docaviv will run as a hybrid event from July 1-10, with screenings both in Tel Aviv’s cinemas and online.
It will play over 100 Israeli and international documentaries in both on-site and online screenings. All on-site screenings will run in compliance with local regulations at the time.
Scroll down for a list of the Israeli titles in the festival
Cinemas in Israel are currently allowed to open with a maximum capacity of 75%, or 300 people per room. Cinemagoers are required to present a ‘green pass’ showing they have...
- 5/4/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The first thing you need to know about Daniel Sivan’s feature documentary Dirty Tricks, premiering as part of the Hot Docs festival, is that the title is a pun.
You see, it’s about a cheating scandal in the world of elite bridge and, of course, a “trick” is the standard competitive unit in the game — as it is in hearts, spades and euchre.
That, it turns out, is actually all you probably need to know going in. Bridge gives the impression of being impenetrable — a game you can’t master unless you’re wealthy enough to ...
You see, it’s about a cheating scandal in the world of elite bridge and, of course, a “trick” is the standard competitive unit in the game — as it is in hearts, spades and euchre.
That, it turns out, is actually all you probably need to know going in. Bridge gives the impression of being impenetrable — a game you can’t master unless you’re wealthy enough to ...
The first thing you need to know about Daniel Sivan’s feature documentary Dirty Tricks, premiering as part of the Hot Docs festival, is that the title is a pun.
You see, it’s about a cheating scandal in the world of elite bridge and, of course, a “trick” is the standard competitive unit in the game — as it is in hearts, spades and euchre.
That, it turns out, is actually all you probably need to know going in. Bridge gives the impression of being impenetrable — a game you can’t master unless you’re wealthy enough to ...
You see, it’s about a cheating scandal in the world of elite bridge and, of course, a “trick” is the standard competitive unit in the game — as it is in hearts, spades and euchre.
That, it turns out, is actually all you probably need to know going in. Bridge gives the impression of being impenetrable — a game you can’t master unless you’re wealthy enough to ...
Yes Studios, the leading Israeli production and distribution banner, has unveiled a first still and a trailer for Daniel Sivan’s anticipated feature documentary film “Dirty Tricks,” which will have its world premiere at Hot Docs.
“Dirty Tricks,” set to unspool in the special presentation section at Hot Docs, takes an inside look at the world of competitive bridge, exposing a massive cheating scandal threatening to bring down the sport’s billion dollar industry.
In “Dirty Tricks,” Sivan, whose credits include Netflix’s “The Devil Next Door” and HBO’s “The Oslo Diaries,” follows Lotan Fisher, the world’s best bridge player who is nicknamed “The Michael Jordan of Bridge.” When Fisher was accused of cheating, it caused a scandal that shook the entire sport to its core, confounding experts, criminal science, celebrities, and bridge aficionados worldwide.
Produced by Yes Docu, “Dirty Tricks” also sheds light on the billionaires who...
“Dirty Tricks,” set to unspool in the special presentation section at Hot Docs, takes an inside look at the world of competitive bridge, exposing a massive cheating scandal threatening to bring down the sport’s billion dollar industry.
In “Dirty Tricks,” Sivan, whose credits include Netflix’s “The Devil Next Door” and HBO’s “The Oslo Diaries,” follows Lotan Fisher, the world’s best bridge player who is nicknamed “The Michael Jordan of Bridge.” When Fisher was accused of cheating, it caused a scandal that shook the entire sport to its core, confounding experts, criminal science, celebrities, and bridge aficionados worldwide.
Produced by Yes Docu, “Dirty Tricks” also sheds light on the billionaires who...
- 3/31/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is set to open with Ann Shin’s Artificial Immortality, a film about AI, robotics and biotech.
North America’s largest documentary festival, set for a virtual run from April 29 to May 9, will stream 219 films from 66 countries. There’s world premieres for Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan, about life in the Chinese city during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic; Sol Guy’s The Death of My Two Fathers; Willemiek Kluijfhout’s The Taste of Desire, a film about oysters; Daniel Sivan’s doc about competitive bridge playing, Dirty Tricks; and John ...
North America’s largest documentary festival, set for a virtual run from April 29 to May 9, will stream 219 films from 66 countries. There’s world premieres for Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan, about life in the Chinese city during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic; Sol Guy’s The Death of My Two Fathers; Willemiek Kluijfhout’s The Taste of Desire, a film about oysters; Daniel Sivan’s doc about competitive bridge playing, Dirty Tricks; and John ...
- 3/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is set to open with Ann Shin’s Artificial Immortality, a film about AI, robotics and biotech.
North America’s largest documentary festival, set for a virtual run from April 29 to May 9, will stream 219 films from 66 countries. There’s world premieres for Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan, about life in the Chinese city during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic; Sol Guy’s The Death of My Two Fathers; Willemiek Kluijfhout’s The Taste of Desire, a film about oysters; Daniel Sivan’s doc about competitive bridge playing, Dirty Tricks; and John ...
North America’s largest documentary festival, set for a virtual run from April 29 to May 9, will stream 219 films from 66 countries. There’s world premieres for Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan, about life in the Chinese city during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic; Sol Guy’s The Death of My Two Fathers; Willemiek Kluijfhout’s The Taste of Desire, a film about oysters; Daniel Sivan’s doc about competitive bridge playing, Dirty Tricks; and John ...
- 3/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Netflix says it will update “The Devil Next Door” following multiple complaints, including one from the Polish prime minster, about inaccuracies in the docuseries, which focuses on the trial of John Demjanjuk, a man who was accused of being the Ukrainian concentration camp guard “Ivan the Terrible.”
Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki wrote a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings last Sunday which cited several complaints about the docuseries, the main one being that the maps featured in the series showed Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, lying within the borders of modern-day Poland.
“Not only is the map incorrect, but it deceives viewers into believing that Poland was responsible for establishing and maintaining these camps, and for committing the crimes therein,” Morawiecki wrote. “As my country did not even exist at that time as an independent state, and millions of Poles were murdered at these sites, this element of ‘The Devil...
Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki wrote a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings last Sunday which cited several complaints about the docuseries, the main one being that the maps featured in the series showed Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, lying within the borders of modern-day Poland.
“Not only is the map incorrect, but it deceives viewers into believing that Poland was responsible for establishing and maintaining these camps, and for committing the crimes therein,” Morawiecki wrote. “As my country did not even exist at that time as an independent state, and millions of Poles were murdered at these sites, this element of ‘The Devil...
- 11/14/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Netflix will amend elements of its documentary series “The Devil Next Door” after the Polish prime minister and others complained to CEO Reed Hastings about the show, which centers on the trial of John Demjanjuk who was accused of being a notorious Ukrainian concentration camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki wrote a strongly worded letter to Hastings last Sunday contending that the series was inaccurate. Central to his complaint were maps seen in the series that place Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz within the borders of modern-day Poland. Screen shots of the maps were shared on social media.
Netflix acknowledged the complaint and said it was investigating. The U.S. streamer now says that it will amend the series by adding on-screen text, likely below the maps, to spell out the fact that the death camps sat in territory occupied by the Nazis.
The...
Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki wrote a strongly worded letter to Hastings last Sunday contending that the series was inaccurate. Central to his complaint were maps seen in the series that place Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz within the borders of modern-day Poland. Screen shots of the maps were shared on social media.
Netflix acknowledged the complaint and said it was investigating. The U.S. streamer now says that it will amend the series by adding on-screen text, likely below the maps, to spell out the fact that the death camps sat in territory occupied by the Nazis.
The...
- 11/14/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
How well do you know your neighbor? Like, really know them? In Netflix's upcoming documentary series The Devil Next Door, the question turns out to be more ominous than usual.
Directed and produced by Daniel Sivan and Yossi Bloch, the five-episode docuseries explores the true story of retired Ukrainian-American autoworker John Demjanuk, who was living the ordinary life of the average family man in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and kids in the 1980s. But, when a group of Holocaust survivors recognize a photograph of him and later identify him as "Ivan the Terrible" - a Nazi death camp guard responsible for the vicious torture and deaths of nearly one million Jewish prisoners in World War II - his reinvention of himself through the American dream comes to an abrupt end.
Over the course of the series, Demjanjukis is extradited to Israel to stand trial in...
Directed and produced by Daniel Sivan and Yossi Bloch, the five-episode docuseries explores the true story of retired Ukrainian-American autoworker John Demjanuk, who was living the ordinary life of the average family man in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and kids in the 1980s. But, when a group of Holocaust survivors recognize a photograph of him and later identify him as "Ivan the Terrible" - a Nazi death camp guard responsible for the vicious torture and deaths of nearly one million Jewish prisoners in World War II - his reinvention of himself through the American dream comes to an abrupt end.
Over the course of the series, Demjanjukis is extradited to Israel to stand trial in...
- 10/27/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan go behind the scenes of the secret Israeli-Palestinian talks that tried to bring about peace in the 1990s
Like a sombre archaeological dig, this documentary disinters the 1990s Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. It began in 1993 with imaginative, off-the-record discussions between unofficial representatives in a conference venue outside Oslo – no more neutral and non-Middle Eastern location could possibly be conceived, short of hosting the talks on Pluto. And it ended catastrophically, with the assassination of the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
Unlike in South Africa and Northern Ireland in that same era, the chance for peace was missed. Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan’s film reconstructs the lost atmosphere of hope, with interesting interviews, including one with Israel’s then foreign minister, Shimon Peres – the last one he gave before he died.
Like a sombre archaeological dig, this documentary disinters the 1990s Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. It began in 1993 with imaginative, off-the-record discussions between unofficial representatives in a conference venue outside Oslo – no more neutral and non-Middle Eastern location could possibly be conceived, short of hosting the talks on Pluto. And it ended catastrophically, with the assassination of the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
Unlike in South Africa and Northern Ireland in that same era, the chance for peace was missed. Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan’s film reconstructs the lost atmosphere of hope, with interesting interviews, including one with Israel’s then foreign minister, Shimon Peres – the last one he gave before he died.
- 9/27/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Yona Rozenkier’s “The Dive” and Tsivia Barkai-Yacov’s “Red Cow” have scooped The Haggiag Award for Best Israeli Feature Film and the Anat Pirchi Award for Best Debut Film at the 35th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival.
“The Dive” and “Red Cow” shared the award Thursday for best debut film. Produced by Efrat Cohen and Koby Mizrahi ,”The Dive” follows three brothers who reunite for one weekend to bury their father in their native kibbutz on the border with Lebanon before going to war. The movie, which also played at Locarno, is being sold by Stray Dogs.
“Red Cow” is set in an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem and follows the sexual awakening of a teenage girl living with her widowed father, who is an Orthodox Jew. The movie world premiered at Berlin in the Generation section.
The Israeli competition jury, which comprised Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer,...
“The Dive” and “Red Cow” shared the award Thursday for best debut film. Produced by Efrat Cohen and Koby Mizrahi ,”The Dive” follows three brothers who reunite for one weekend to bury their father in their native kibbutz on the border with Lebanon before going to war. The movie, which also played at Locarno, is being sold by Stray Dogs.
“Red Cow” is set in an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem and follows the sexual awakening of a teenage girl living with her widowed father, who is an Orthodox Jew. The movie world premiered at Berlin in the Generation section.
The Israeli competition jury, which comprised Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer,...
- 8/3/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The film explores the birth of Israel’s controversial religious political party Shas in the 1980s.
The 35th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) opened on Thursday evening (July 26) with Israeli director Eliran Malka’s debut feature The Unorthodox, exploring the events leading up to the birth of Israel’s controversial religious political party Shas in the 1980s.
Festival director Noa Regev and Jff artistic director Elad Samorzik’s decision to select a picture by a first-time director with a religious background was seen as bold move given the festival’s traditionally secular atmosphere, but it appears to be have paid off.
The 35th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) opened on Thursday evening (July 26) with Israeli director Eliran Malka’s debut feature The Unorthodox, exploring the events leading up to the birth of Israel’s controversial religious political party Shas in the 1980s.
Festival director Noa Regev and Jff artistic director Elad Samorzik’s decision to select a picture by a first-time director with a religious background was seen as bold move given the festival’s traditionally secular atmosphere, but it appears to be have paid off.
- 7/27/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
HBO has acquired all domestic television rights, including streaming, to Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan’s feature documentary “The Oslo Diaries,” the company announced Sunday. The film follows the secret 1992 negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders based on readings of the participants’ diaries from the time, interwoven with never-before-seen archival footage and exclusive interviews with key players, including the last on-camera conversation with former Israeli president Shimon Peres. The talks spanned a period of 1,100 days, and the film offers a portrait of diplomacy and the delicate nature of peace. HBO plans to debut the film later this year to commemorate...
- 1/28/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Covering the secret talks between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in the 1990s, “The Oslo Diaries” should be a gripping documentary that’s depressingly relevant 25 years after the events it covers. When you describe the covert meeting in Norway, it feels like something out of a spy movie, though Hollywood would have given it a far happier ending. Unfortunately, this film from directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan removes much of the suspense, taking a standard nonfiction approach that is often dense and sometimes dull in its execution.
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- 1/26/2018
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
HBO has acquired all domestic TV and streaming rights to The Oslo Diaries, a documentary that chronicles secret peace meetings between Israelis and Palestinians that took place in 1992. The film had its world premiere Jan. 21 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section at the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, the film features never-before-seen footage of meetings involving an unlikely group of negotiators — two Israeli professors and three Plo members — who met secretly in Norway. To these unsanctioned meetings, the bitter enemies brought fiercely held convictions: the Palestinians saw occupiers, the Israelis...
Directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, the film features never-before-seen footage of meetings involving an unlikely group of negotiators — two Israeli professors and three Plo members — who met secretly in Norway. To these unsanctioned meetings, the bitter enemies brought fiercely held convictions: the Palestinians saw occupiers, the Israelis...
- 1/25/2018
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan hired two cinematographers to film The Oslo Diaries, their documentary on Israeli-Palestinian relations in the early 1990s. They did so for a specific reason: One cameraman (Avner Shahaf) would serve as lead Dp on interviews, while the other (Alex Margineau) would shoot the film’s reenactments. The latter footage – shot in the vein of such films as No and Stories We Tell – was shot to blend seamlessly with actual archival footage from the era. Below, both cinematographers discuss their experiences on the project, which screens in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker: How […]...
- 1/25/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The 1990s peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel are currently getting a spotlight moment in pop culture, first with the Tony-winning play Oslo and now with this documentary. The Oslo Accords represent one of the most frustrating missed opportunities in recent world politics, though The Oslo Diaries is more frustrating for how it both simplifies the political complexities of the situation and dilutes the drama of the story. At first boring, the film does manage to accrue some tragic weight in its back half, though that’s more because of the emotion inherent in watching the peace process fall apart than any strong filmmaking.
Along with interviews with the still-living figures in the Oslo talks and requisite historical footage, the movie is built around their written journals from the time. If it had interrogated any frission between what they wrote privately then and what they say to cameras now, then...
Along with interviews with the still-living figures in the Oslo talks and requisite historical footage, the movie is built around their written journals from the time. If it had interrogated any frission between what they wrote privately then and what they say to cameras now, then...
- 1/24/2018
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
Receiving its world premiere at Sundance,The Oslo Diaries is the latest from Israeli filmmakers Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, who last came to Park City with 2015’s Censored Voices, an exploration of Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War through long-buried audiotape interviews with its on-the-ground soldiers. A similar reexamination of history, The Oslo Diaries combines unseen-until-now archival footage with the personal diaries of, and present-day interviews with, the handful of participants in the top secret, backchannel — and ultimately doomed — peacemaking process that took place in Norway in the early ’90s. Filmmaker spoke with the two directors prior to Sundance about […]...
- 1/21/2018
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With the Oslo Peace Accords back in the news amid the fallout of President Donald Trump’s decision last month for the U.S. to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city, the timing is just about perfect for The Oslo Diaries. The new film from Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan will have its world premiere Sunday in the Sundance Film Festival’s World Documentary section. Submarine is handling sales in Park City. The film follows the diaries of the Israelis and Palestinians at…...
- 1/19/2018
- Deadline
Exclusive: Tel Aviv-based festival will open with world premiere of Before My Feet Touch the Ground.
Docaviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalised the selection for its 19th edition (May 11-20).
The Tel Aviv-based event will kick off with the world premiere of Daphni Leef’s Israeli documentary Before My Feet Touch The Ground (pictured), about a film student who became the leader of a popular protest movement.
13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali film competition, 11 of which are world premieres.
They are competing for the best Israeli film award worth $19,000 (Nis 70,000), the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
For the first time, a Fipresci jury will also award a best director award.
The competition will feature work by David Deri, Doron Galezer and Ruth Yuval (The Ancestral Sin), Daniel Sivan (The Patriot), and Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander and Tamir Elterman (Muhi).
International competition
11 films have been selected for the...
Docaviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalised the selection for its 19th edition (May 11-20).
The Tel Aviv-based event will kick off with the world premiere of Daphni Leef’s Israeli documentary Before My Feet Touch The Ground (pictured), about a film student who became the leader of a popular protest movement.
13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali film competition, 11 of which are world premieres.
They are competing for the best Israeli film award worth $19,000 (Nis 70,000), the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
For the first time, a Fipresci jury will also award a best director award.
The competition will feature work by David Deri, Doron Galezer and Ruth Yuval (The Ancestral Sin), Daniel Sivan (The Patriot), and Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander and Tamir Elterman (Muhi).
International competition
11 films have been selected for the...
- 4/19/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
Documentary festival to focus on
DocAviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalized the selection for its 17th edition (May 7-16).
With a solid reputation to defend, the festival will kick off with Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winner Citizenfour, whose theme, the onging Edward Snowden saga, fits one of the festival’s main concerns - “(un)Free World”.
Some 13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali Film Competition.
A total 11 world premieres are competing for The Sarah and Michael Sela Prize
The $18,000 (Nis 70,000) award is the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
Some 75 Israeli films have been submitted to the Israeli competition. Well known names among the contenders include: Reuven Brodsky with 7 Days in St. Petersburg, whose previous film Home Movie has won the 2012 Docaviv competition, Avigail Sperber produced Girsa De’Yankuta by Noa Roth, Censored Voices by Mor Loushy which premiered in Sundance and Twilight of a Life, which...
DocAviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalized the selection for its 17th edition (May 7-16).
With a solid reputation to defend, the festival will kick off with Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winner Citizenfour, whose theme, the onging Edward Snowden saga, fits one of the festival’s main concerns - “(un)Free World”.
Some 13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali Film Competition.
A total 11 world premieres are competing for The Sarah and Michael Sela Prize
The $18,000 (Nis 70,000) award is the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
Some 75 Israeli films have been submitted to the Israeli competition. Well known names among the contenders include: Reuven Brodsky with 7 Days in St. Petersburg, whose previous film Home Movie has won the 2012 Docaviv competition, Avigail Sperber produced Girsa De’Yankuta by Noa Roth, Censored Voices by Mor Loushy which premiered in Sundance and Twilight of a Life, which...
- 4/2/2015
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
The holidays are winding down and that means we at Ioncinema.com are gearing up for our annual pilgrimage to Park City where an A-list of documentaries is now set to premiere. Earlier this month Tabitha Jackson and the Sundance doc programming team let the cats out of the bag, unsurprisingly announcing much anticipated Us Doc Competition titles such as the Ross Brothers’ Western, Louie Psihoyos’ Racing Extinction, Marc Silver’s 3 1/2 Minutes and Lyric Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe’s (T)Error, along with some surprises like Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel’s bizarro Kickstarted doc Finders Keepers (see trailer below). Having been produced by the fine folks behind The King of Kong and Undefeated, the film bears all the markings of its well regarded pedigree, yet appears to be of even odder ilk, following the story that unfolded when a severed human foot was discovered in a grill bought at a North Carolina auction.
- 12/30/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Mor Loushy’s documentary will make its world premiere at Sundance.
Dogwoof has acquired worldwide rights for Censored Voices.
Mor Loushy’s documentary reveals the original recordings made by a group of young kibbutzinks with soldiers returning from the battlefield after the ‘Six-Day’ war in 1967. The recordings were originally censored by the Israeli army.
The deal was negotiated by Vesna Cudic from Dogwoof with the film-makers. It marks the second time that Dogwoof has teamed up with kNow Productions and Impact Partners following Web Junkie.
This is the second time Dogwoof has teamed up with kNow Productions and Impact Partners following last year’s deal for Web Junkie, which premiered in Sundance 2014.
Daniel Sivan, Hilla Medalia and Neta Zwebner produced the film which was co-produced by Melanie Andernach, and was executive produced by Dan Cogan, Guy Lavie, Dagmar Mielke, Nick Fraser, Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Chilnick, and Ethan Goldman.
Censored Voices will make its world premiere at Sundance...
Dogwoof has acquired worldwide rights for Censored Voices.
Mor Loushy’s documentary reveals the original recordings made by a group of young kibbutzinks with soldiers returning from the battlefield after the ‘Six-Day’ war in 1967. The recordings were originally censored by the Israeli army.
The deal was negotiated by Vesna Cudic from Dogwoof with the film-makers. It marks the second time that Dogwoof has teamed up with kNow Productions and Impact Partners following Web Junkie.
This is the second time Dogwoof has teamed up with kNow Productions and Impact Partners following last year’s deal for Web Junkie, which premiered in Sundance 2014.
Daniel Sivan, Hilla Medalia and Neta Zwebner produced the film which was co-produced by Melanie Andernach, and was executive produced by Dan Cogan, Guy Lavie, Dagmar Mielke, Nick Fraser, Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Chilnick, and Ethan Goldman.
Censored Voices will make its world premiere at Sundance...
- 12/11/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
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