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“Family” by Veronica Kedar won the first prize at the 2nd Annual Jerusalem International Film Lab |
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Babaga is the first graduation film nominated for the Ophir Award |
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"In Praise of the Day", directed by Oren Adaf, continues its international tour. |
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Footsteps in Jerusalem - A Tribute to David Perlov |
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The Jerusalem International Film Lab of The Sam Spiegel School Has Begun its 2014 Edition |
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"Footsteps in Jerusalem" was named one the MoMA's 10 influential films of 2013 |
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Imperial Dreams Wins Audience Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festivsal |
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A Short Independent Film by the Graduate Ehab Tarabieh Will Compete at the Berlinale |
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Impressive Sam Spiegel female representation at the Tribeca Film Festival |
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The Roads of Jerusalem Are Leading to Cannes |
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"Zero Motivation" by school's own Talya Lavie wins big at Tribeca Film Festival |
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Acclaimed Director Michel Gondry, gave a master-class at the Sam Spiegel Film & TV School |
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The Student Delegation from our Entrepreneurial Production Track has returned from the Cannes Film Festival! |
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The Roads of Jerusalem Lead to Cannes |
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"April Fool's" by school's Yonatan Dekel wins Best Student Feature Film Award in Jerusalem Film Festival |
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A special screening "Footsteps in Jerusalem", the school's main 2013 project will be held at the JFF |
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Micha’s Stories - a Sam Spiegel tribute to Micha Shagrir for 50 Years in Filmmaking |
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School's Alumni successful in Venice |
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An Honorable Mention to "Remember When We Kissed" - School Student Nayef Hammoud's 2nd Year Film |
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Love Letters to Cinema - A series of ten Short Films by leading Israeli Directors |
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"Tough and Brilliant" - A Retrospective to Alumni Women Filmmakers, marking the School's Silver Jubilee |
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Special Mention for "After All" at the Filmschoolfest Munich |
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Upcoming in July: GEECT School’s Best Kept Secrets Conference |
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"Aya" creators on the Oscars' red carpet |
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17 scripts have been submitted to the Sam Spiegel Alumni Fund for First Features |
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The registration for the Jerusalem International Film Lab’s 5th edition (2015-16) is now open |
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"Why?", Nadav Lapid's short from "Love Letters to Cinema" competed in the Berlinale's short film competition |
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Silver Jubilee Gala- YMCA Jerusalem, March 24th 2015 |
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Oscar nominated "Aya"'s creators rejoin their friends at the Jerusalem Film Lab to continue work on their projects |
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A Once in a Lifetime Event - The Silver Jubilee Gala |
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The Speeches |
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"Hayored Lema'ala" by Graduate Elad Keidan to Premiere at the Festival de Cannes |
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JIFL Developed "Son of Saul" Wins the 2015 Cannes Grand Prix |
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The School's 22nd Graduation Ceremony will be Held at the Jerusalem Cinematheque |
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A Warm Welcome for Two School Graduates at Venice Film Festival - Yaelle Kayam with "Mountain" and JIFL Alumni Adirano Vallerio with "Banat" |
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"April Fool's" Won Israeli Academy Award For Best Short; 4 More Wins For School Graduates |
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"The Principle of Grace" by graduate Maya Kessel won the Short Film Award at HFF |
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Big wins at Haifa - Best Feature to "Afterthought"; Students Award for "The Principle of Grace" |
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Graduate Gan de Lange won (along with Shlomi Elkabetz) the Short Script Competition by Ha'aretz and JSFS |
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"April Fool's" will participate in the Blow-Up Arthouse Film Fest |
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University of Cambridge held unprecedented tribute to the school: 8-week homage to 8 outstanding graduates |
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“Mushkie”, a debut - short film by Aleeza Chanowitz competed in the Berlinale |
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"Mushkie" has been selected for Palm Springs ShortFest |
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Or Sinai's graduation film "Anna" WON "Best Israeli Short" at TLV student film festival |
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"The Mute's House" will screen in the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival |
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6 production students returned from an educational seminar at Cannes |
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Tamar Kay's "The Mute's House" WON first prize in Krakow Film Festival and Docaviv Film Festival |
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"EcoME" has won the first prize at Compro Campus |
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"The Mute's House" won the first place prize at the Montefeltro Film School Festival |
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"Reflection", Osi Wald's short from "Love Letters to Cinema" has been chosen to compete at A Corto di Donne |
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4 school films and 2 graduates won awards at the TLV International Student Film Festival |
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"The Mute's House" has been selected to screen at the Montenegro Film Festival |
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4 School Films and 7 Films by Graduates Are Competing at the Jerusalem Film Festival |
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$170,000 in Prizes Will Be Awarded at the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab’s July Events |
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"Mushkie" has been selected for Le Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski |
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"Lookout" will be screened in two festivals in the US |
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"Hunger" has been chosen to participate at the Frontale Film Festival |
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"Anna" has been accepted to the Jameson CineFest Festival |
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"Mud" has been selected for the "Women Make Waves" festival |
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"Out of Touch" will be screened at the Montevideo Film Schools Festival |
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"The Mute's House" directed by Tamar Kay won the Best Documentary Short Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival |
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"The Mute's House", Tamar Kay's graduation film, is nominated for the US Student Academy Awards |
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8 out of the 17 short films nominated for the Israeli Academy awards were made by school students and graduates |
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Thundering reception for the school's graduation ceremony |
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"Baderech Hazara" and "One Summer's Day" to compete at The Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival |
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"The Mute's House" has been accepted to HRFFA |
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"Anna" to be screened at TIFF |
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"Lookout" and "Thirst" accepted to BRNO 16 film festival |
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"The Mute's House" has been selected for the 2ANNAS film festival |
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"Out of Touch" has been aceepted to the Uppsala International Short Film Festival |
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"Anna" has been accepted to the ISVFV Film Festival |
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"Mushkie" has been selected for the Kuki International Children and Youth Film Festival |
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"The Disposers" will be screened at the Raindance Film Festival |
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"The Mute's House" has been selected for the B-EST Shorts Film Festival |
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"The Mute's House", Tamar Kay's graduation film, has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards |
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Record number of awards for school's students and graduates at the Haifa Film Festival |
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"Anna", Or Sinai's graduation film, won the Ophir Award for Best Short Film |
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"The Principle of Grace" and "Be Happy Tonight" won the first prizes at NYC Shorts festival |
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Two of the school's graduation films have won the first prizes at the prestigious Poitiers Film Festival |
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The sixth edition of the Jerusalem International Film Lab began on 11.12.16 |
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"Lookout" will be screened at the Denver Jewish Film Festival |
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"The Mute's House" won the Best Short Documentary award at the St. Louis International Film Festival |
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"The Mute's House" received a special mention at Flickerfest festival in Sydney |
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"Lookout" was accepted to the Denver Jewish Film Festival |
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Cannes winner "Anna" will screen at five international film festivals |
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Renen Schorr received the Chevalier Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France |
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Thank You Speech by Renen Schorr Upon Receiving the Chevalier Medal of the Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres |
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Sam Spiegel/SONY Classic Partnership Unveils in New York |
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A Great Success for the Sam Spiegel Film Festival at Cambridge University |
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"The Bride's Tree" by Shadi Habib Allah won a special mention at the David Perlov Film Fund competition |
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"Blessed" was accepted to the Washington Jewish Film Festival |
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"Out of Reach" will screen at IndieLisboa |
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Success for "Big Sister" at the Tribeca Film Festival |
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Three alumna have won major prizes at the Israeli Academy of Film and Television Awards |
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Another writing session of the sixth round of the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, Jerusalem has ended |
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"Anna" and "Out of Reach" will screen at the Kyiv International Shorts Film Festival |
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"Mushkie" was accepted to the Cellu L'art Film Festival in Germany |
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"Scaffolding" by Matan Yair and Gal Greenspan to screen at the Cannes Film Festival |
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"Out of Reach", by Efrat Rasner will be screening in the Official Competition at the Tbilisi International Student Film Festival |
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Seven of the school's films to screen at the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival |
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Three School Films Shortlisted for International BAFTA Awards |
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Cornerstone Ceremony for the School’s Future Campus Downtown Jerusalem |
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Alumna Moran Ifergan and Tamara Mamon win big at DocAviv |
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Seven of the School’s Films at the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival |
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Shattering Stereotypes Festival – A New Initiative for the New Campus |
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Two of the school's films are nominated for best film in "Ophir" - Israeli Academy Award |
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Alum Koby Gal Raday appointed senior position at YES |
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"Timor's Show" won first prize at the Tbilisi Student Film Festival |
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"212" won the critics' forum award at the Tel-Aviv International Student Film Festival |
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Three Alumni Projects are competing in the Sam Spiegel Alumni Fund 2017 |
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Honorary Fellowship 2017 granted to the Israeli satiric television show, "Eretz Nehedert" |
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Four of the school's films are screening at the Jerusalem Film Festival |
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"Out of Reach" to screen at Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival |
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"Anna" and "Out of Reach" will participate at the Herceg Novi Film Festival in Monternegro |
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The Sam Spiegel Alumni Fund for First Features was granted to the screenplay Asia, by Ruthy Pribar at the opening event of the 6th Annual Sam Spiegel International Film Lab |
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The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab has successfully concluded its sixth edition |
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Student Omri Dekel-Kadosh wins Best Live Action Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival |
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Scaffolding and Conventional Sins, by School Graduates Win Best Film Awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival |
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"Big Sister" to screen at the Seoul Short Film Festival |
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Inspiring Award Presented to Screenwriting Graduate in Honor of Jean-Claude Carriere |
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Tribute to the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School at The Sarajevo Film Festival |
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"Big Sister" to screen at the Panama Short Film Festival |
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Sam Spiegel on the Hollywood Reporter list for Leading International Film Schools 2017 |
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"Anna" won first prize at the Herceg Novi film festival in Monternegro |
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"The Rabbi" to screen at the Iris Prize film festival in Cardiff |
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"Big Sister" to compete at the Charlotte, North Carolina international film festival |
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"Walking a thin line between pathos and humour to create a universal work of cinema" - Our own "212” - Winner at the San Sebastian International Film Festival |
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Alumni Producers Mansuri and Doweck swept the Ophir Prize with their film "Foxtrot" |
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"Scaffolding" by Alunmi Matan Yair and Gal Greenspan Took the Israeli Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
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Alumni Producers Roeh and Zamir took Best Film Prize at the Haifa Film Festival |
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Two TV series developed at the School are being broadcast on Israeli primetime |
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Coming Soon - the 2018 Sam Spiegel International Film Lab |
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"Scaffolding" by graduates Matan Yair and Gal Greenspan is Israel's sleeper of the year |
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"Lucid" by Or Ben David won the editing award at the Early Bird Film Festival |
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"Big Sister" and "212" to be screened at the Munich Film Festival |
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"The Rabbi" and "Our Heroes" were accepted to the CamerImage Film Festival |
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Israel's foriegn language submission to the Oscars "Foxtrot", produced by alum Eitan Mansuri, has been bought by SONY Classics |
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Alumna Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on the NYTimes list of 100 Notable Books of 2017 |
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School graduates Yonatan Dekel, Ehab Tarabieh and Or Sinai are among the 12 participants of the 7th Sam Spiegel International Film Lab |
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Registration for the lab's 8th edition is now closed |
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Emotional Premiere for “Red Cow” at Berlin |
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"Sleeping Bears", by "The A-Word" creator Keren Margalit had its premiere at the Berlinale Series |
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"Big Sister" to screen at the IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival in New Delhi |
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"Heroes" to participate at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival |
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"Anna" to screen at Femina International Women's Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro |
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US remake of “The Kindergarten Teacher” took Best Director Award at Sundance |
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The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Announced its Force-of-Nature Filmmaking Award to Dieter Kosslick |
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Graduate of Sam Spiegel and Bezalel took First Prize in Berlin |
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"Big Sister" to screen at the Mecal Pro film festival in Barcelona |
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"Big Sister" was accepted to the Future Meridian film festival in London |
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"The Rabbi" and "Lice" at the Ingolstatdt short film festival |
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Cross-cultural collaboration in filmmaking: outstanding graduates at the second Bloom/Spiegel Seminar in NYC |
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Inspiring visit with Jean-Claude Carriere and 2017 Outstanding Feature Screenplay Prize winner in Paris |
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Alum screenwriter Tal Miller and Head of Screenwriting Department Tzvika Kertzner's successful expedition to Series Mania, 2018 |
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The Third JSFS Student Delegation is going to Cannes |
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Best Screenplay and Audience Award to alumna Shira Florentin at the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival |
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Special mention for the "Bride's Tree" at the Tbilisi Student Film Festival |
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"Anna" to compete at the Chicago Independent Short Film Festival |
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The Big Winners of The 2018 Sam Spiegel International Film Lab: "Anatolian Leopard” (Turkey), and “Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive” (Israel) |
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A Prize of a New Vintage: The Force-in-Nature in Filmmaking Award 2018 was presented by the Lab to Dieter Kosslick, the legendary director of the Berlinale |
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President Rivlin at the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School graduation: Israeli cinema was, and will always be a wonderful emissary |
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Three student films to screen at the Jerusalem Film Festival |
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Glowing reviews for the flagship project "Voice Over" now in cinematheques around Israel |
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Central prizes for the School and Lab at the Jerusalem Film Festival |
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Acusada, developed at the JSFL where it won first prize, is in competition at the Venice Film Festival |
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“Portrait of My Family in My 13th Year” took part in the prestigious competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival |
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Three of the school's films at the Haifa International Film Festival |
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School and Lab alumna Aalam-Warqe Davidian wins at TIFF |
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"Portrait of My Family in My Thirteenth Year" and "Shabbos Kallah" at the NYC Shorts film festival |
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"The Rabbi" and "Blessed" to screen at the Viena Jewish Film Festival |
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"The Rabbi" won a special mention for script at the Drama Short Film Festival in Greece |
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For the second year in a row - we are on the Hollywood Reporter's list of best film schools outside the US |
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The first workshop of the eighth edition of the Lab kicks off this month |
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Celebrating 30 years – first retrospective for the School at the JJFF |
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Directing award at the Poitiers Film Festival for " Portrait of My Family in My 13th Year" |
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Directing Award for Omri Dekel-Kadosh's "Portrait of My Family in My 13th Year" at the prestigious Poitiers Film Festival |
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Nadav Lapid double feature – retrospective at Clermont-Ferrand, and a premiere at the upcoming Berlinale competition |
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Numerous nominations for School graduates in leading categories of the Israeli TV Academy Awards |
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The Berlin International Film Festival celebrates the 30th anniversary of the School |
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Michael Barker, president of Sony Classics, will arrive in Israel for the first time in July for the Sam Spiegel International Film Fund |
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$720,000 New Awards at the 2019 Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab |
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"Synonyms" by Alum Nadav Lapid on the Cover of Legendary French Journal "Cahiers du Cin?ma" |
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Nir Bergman's Series wins Jury Prize at Series Mania |
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Celebrating our 30th anniversary with a tribute at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival |
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New and Challenging - the 2019 Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab |
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Renen Schorr is stepping down as the Founding Director of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School |
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"The Voice of Ahmad", the third installment in the Sam Speigel Trilogy - world premiere at DocAviv 2019 |
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Third Bloom/Spiegel Seminar in NY Was a Great Success |
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All major festivals in Israel holding tributes to the School |
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$170,000 will be granted in prizes at the eighth Sam Spiegel International Film Lab |
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The School garden will be named “The Jungle of Generosity” in honor of John Cassavetes |
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The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab awarded prizes in the amount of $170,000 to world filmmakers |
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Dana Blankstein Cohen was appointed as the new director of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School |
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The JSFS is on the Hollywood Reporter list of 15 best film schools outside the US for the third year in a row |
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Towards the Unrealistic, the Fantastic: A Tribute to JSFS at the Haifa Film Festival 2019 |
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"The Voice of Ahmad" sweeping audiences and critics across Israel |
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Nevo Shirazi and Nir Guilat won four prizes at NYC Shorts |
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Films in the Desert Film Festival pays tribute to the School |
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The School graduation event will take place Thursday Nov 14 |
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The Sir David Lean Editing Suite was inaugurated in a festive ceremony |
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Dana Blankstein Cohen has taken over as the new director of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School |
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The Future Home of the School is visited by Adam Spiegel |
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Synonyms, by Nadav Lapid, on the New York Times list of the best films of 2019 |
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There are Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover - Renen Schorr Goodbye Speech |
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Listening In, by Omer Sterneberg will compete in the Berlinale Shorts 2020 |
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The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Has appointed a new director – Aurit Zamir |
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Listening In, by Omer Sternberg, was highly praised at the 2020 Berlinale |
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Tribeca Film Festival will screen two films by JSFS alumna |
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Fourth annual Bloom/Spiegel Seminar was a great success |
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Film and Television Industry Cooperation Understanding Announced between Abu Dhabi and Israel |
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The JSFS is on the Hollywood Reporter list of 15 best film schools outside the US for the forth year in a row |
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JSFS is saddened by the passing of "a one of a kind storyteller": Dick Ross |
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The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School is launching an online VOD site of its 30 best films of all times |
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School alumni to represent Israel at the Academy Awards |
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The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (JSFL) has unveiled the 12 projects selected for its 9th edition, which is running online for now due to the Covid-19 pandemic |
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| From the media |
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Head to head / Director Renen Schorr, are you pleased with the Sam Spiegel School’s accomplishments? |
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Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival: Three promising filmmakers |
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Sam Spiegel School launches $500,000 fund - ScreenDaily - 4.12.14 |
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Jerusalem Post: Israel has had many success stories, but... |
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La Sam Spiegel School, 25 ans de films a succes - i24News - 1.4.15 |
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Cambridge to pay tribute to Sam Spiegel Film School - Jerusalem Post - 1.20.16 |
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Cannes: Student Film Prizes Unveiled - The Hollywood Reporter - 5.20.16 |
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Cannes: Naomi Kawase Jury Awards ‘Anna’ Cinefondation First Prize - Variety - 5.20.16 |
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Anthem / Elad Keidan (2008) |
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Permanent / Shai Zeller (1999) |
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Road / Nadav Lapid (2005) |
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Tolca Mama / Maayan Rassin (2009) |
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Tolya / Rodeon Brodsky (2006) |
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A Different War / Nadav Gal (2003) |
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Mother's Dance / Zelda Hoha (2003) |
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Draft / Naomi Levari (2004) |
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Diploma / Yaelle Kayam (2009) |
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The Substitute / Talya Lavie (2005) |
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Homeland / Dani Rosenberg (2007) |
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Guided Tour / Benjamin Freidenberg (2009) |
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How I Killed Rabin / Michael Alalu (2011) |
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Last Calls / Ruthy Pribar (2011) |
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Babaga / Gan de Lange (2012) |
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Sabbath Entertainment / Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun (2003) |
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Cock Fight / Sigalit Liphshitz (2000) |
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Sea Horses / Nir Bergman (1998) |
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Shred of Hope / Tom Shoval (2007) |
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Underdog / Eran Merav (2002) |
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In Good Hands / Oded Davidoff (1994) |
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Home / David Ofek (1994) |
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Bonfire Night / Sharon Amrani (1998) |
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Bedouin Sand / Omri Levy (1997) |
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Sliding Flora / Talya Lavie (2003) |
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First Aid / Yarden Karmin (2010) |
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Driver / Yehonatan Indursky (2010) |
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The Last Tycoon and other Silver Jubilee shorts |
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Trailer for "The Mute's House", competing this week at IDFA |
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The 23rd graduating class celebrates |
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Successful US tour for graduates Or Sinai and Tamar Kay, a Schusterman Foundation initiative |
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Trailer for "The Mute's House" |
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Trailer from "Big Sister" by Michal Gassner |
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Wall - by Moran Ifergan |
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The Jerusalem Arts Campus - The laying of the cornerstone, May 4th, 2017 |
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Trailer: “212” Boaz Frankel’s graduation film is the winner of the first prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival |
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The 6th round of the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab concluded this weekend |
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Alums Matan Yair and Gal Greenspan's film "Scaffolding", winner of the First Prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival, is now in distribution in Israel and all over |
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The Jean-Claude Carriere prize for Outstanding Feature Screenplay |
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Portrait of My Family in My 13th Year in competition at San Sebastian and nominated for the Israeli Academy Award |
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Who was Sam Spiegel? |
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“Vika”, Tsivia Yaakov Barkai’s graduation film |
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Emotional Premiere for “Red Cow” by Tsivia Yaakov Barkai at the Berlin International Film Festival |
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Trailer: Mamushka |
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Nine leading Israeli and international artists took part in the mural project on the School building |
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The unique pitching event of the JSFL 2018 - A scene from a film-to-be: |
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New and Inspiring Prizes at Graduation this year |
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The opening of the feature tribute by JSFS graduates to the pivotal short "Slow Down". |
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Shabbos Kallah |
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"Sleeping Bears" |
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"Mushkie" by Aleeza Chanowitz |
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"Synonyms", by Nadav Lapid, 2019 Golden Bear winner |
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"Why?" - by Nadav Lapid |
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"I reserve my right to be surprising" |
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The big winners of the 2019 JSFL, "Gentle Monster", Hungary emotional acceptance speech |
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Ari Folman, on Sony Classics president Michael Barker |
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The 25 Lost Years: A Mockumentary |
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There are 50 ways to leave your lover |
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"Listening In" by Omer Sternberg |
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The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School is launching an online VOD site |
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Trailer for the Award-winning documentary by Guy Hodes |