"My Name is Ahlam" receives Special Mention at the International Women's Film Festival

"My Name is Ahlam", directed by Rima Essa (Palestine) receives Special Mention at the International Women's Film Festival in Israel.

The film that participated in the first Greenhouse Round, had its premiere at the 2010 DocAviv Film Festival (Israel) where it won the Best Cinematography Award at the 2010 DocAviv Film Festival (Israel) - Cinematographer : Yair Sagi

The film was produced by Claudius Films.

"While Everyone Else Sleeps" at the Antalya film Festival

"While Everyone Else Sleeps" by Murat Celikler from Turkey, that participated in the fourth Greenhouse round, will have its premiere at the Antalya film Festival.

While Everyone Else Sleeps tells the story of an extraordinary taxi driver who takes stunning photographs of homeless people without any training, while he works at nights. His only purpose is to create a public awareness for helping those people in need.

NEW YORK TIMES Review on a "A Film Unfinished" in the

An Israeli Finds
New Meanings in a Nazi Film

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: August 17, 2010

For almost half a century, an unfinished Nazi propaganda film of the Warsaw Ghetto, simply titled “Das Ghetto” and discovered by East German archivists after the war, was used by scholars and historians as a flawed but authentic record of ghetto life. Shot over 30 days in May 1942 — just two months before deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp would begin — this hourlong silent film juxtaposed random scenes of Jews enjoying various luxuries with images of profound suffering. Read More

"A Film Unfinished" in the NEW YORK TIMES

Yael Hersonski, director of "A Film Unfinished" interviewed in the NEW YORK TIMES.
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My Name is AHLAM at the International Women's Film Festival

"My Name is Ahlam" directed by Rima Essa (Palestine) and produced by Claudia Levin (Israel) will be screened at the 2010 International Women's Film Festival in Rehovot (Israel) in September.

The film was awarded the Best Cinematography Award at the 2010 DocAviv Film Festival.

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Greenhouse Newsletter - July 2010

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HEADLINES:

• The Greenhouse Second Seminar Prepared Filmmakers
  for the Final Pitching Forum in October 2010
• Greenhouse' Fourth Year Project "Tales of the Defeated" (Farewell, Herr Schwarz) Receives Grants from German Film Funds
• Current Greenhouse' project "Faithless" by Fadi Hindash receives two Prestigious Dutch Grants
• Greenhouse' Second Year Project "A Film Unfinished" Won the Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2010 Jerusalem Film Festival
• The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & Television (NFCT) New Toolbar
  
  

The Greenhouse Second Seminar Prepared Filmmakers for the Final Pitching Forum October 2010

The Greenhouse second seminar which took place in Istanbul July 2010 ended successfully last week.

For 5 days, the filmmakers worked intensively with their mentors, Bruni Burres, John Appel, Nenad Puhovski & special expert Hans Robert Eisenhauer. Together they continued analyzing core issues regarding the dramaturgy characters, the film structure and cinematic language and clarified their synopses and treatments. The filmmaker did another important step in the progress of the written proposal and worked thoroughly on their trailers that will be presented in October during the Greenhouse Pitching Forum.

The filmmakers attended a Master Class given by the award winning director Hubert Sauper (Darwin's Nightmare). During the three hour Master Class, Sauper discussed with the participants the filmmaking process of Darwin's Nightmare, from the initial idea of making his documentary through the shooting phases and the editing process. Sauper also discussed issues relevant to the ethics in documentary filmmaking. He further offered a sneak preview of his new film, currently in production.

Furthermore, Hans Robert Eisenhauer and Alan Haylin, Renegade Pictures (UK) gave a lecture pertaining to the issue of financing documentaries in the international Market. During this lecture, Hayling and Eisenhauer screened scenes from films produced or commissioned and detailed the process of the fundraising of these projects. Following this lecture, each filmmaker individually met with Hayling.

On the final day of the seminar, the filmmakers presented their projects to the mentors, the Greenhouse Team and the other filmmakers. The filmmakers pitched their projects and presented their trailers, feedback was given in order for each filmmaker to further work and improve their pitch.