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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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