As you are well aware by now, Hedva Goldschmidt, the Israeli film distributer, will be the Consulate's guest this year for our March
2009 Campus Tour.
The Consulate General of Israel is hosting three key women in the Israeli Film Industry to the region during the months of February
and March in honor of International Women's Month.
By hosting women who have achieved great success in the Israeli film industry, we hope to bring the perspective of women who have
worked behind the scenes, promoting and distributing the best film work coming out of Israel.
Hedva Goldschmidt will be available for screenings and lectures in the NY area from March 19 until March 24.
Ms. Hedva Goldschmidt
Ms. Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films Managing Director, founded the company after 8 years experience in film distribution
(http://www.go2films.com/). She headed the Distribution Dept. at the "Ma'ale" School of Television, Film and the Arts. Founded in
1989, Ma'aleh is an institution of higher education which trains filmmakers to produce work inspired by their Jewish heritage,
fostering a unique connection between the world of media and Jewish culture. The school aims to build bridges between Jewish
tradition and social experience, as well as between the religious and secular worlds.
Founded in 2005, Go2Films specializes in the distribution, marketing and exhibition of Independent Israeli films. Based in Jerusalem
, Go2Films represents some of the more unique and contemporary films coming out of Israel today. Go2Films selects only high-quality
films that explore the social and multi-cultural aspects of life in Israel , focusing on moving stories and fascinating portraits
that resonate for the world-wide a audience.
Ms. Goldschmidt currently serves as the Marketing and Distribution Consultant for the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund. A former
Graphic Designer and freelance Illustrator, she lives in Jerusalem with her husband and five children.
Ms. Goldschmidt will be happy to lecture about the following subjects with visual excerpts from films:
- An overall look at contemporary Israeli Religious Cinema and it's place in the Israeli Film Scene
- On Her Own - The Changing Israeli Religious Woman
- Different Faces in Israeli Society, The Other in Israeli Society - Aliyah/Immigration-The New Israeli Identity
Ms. Goldschmidt honorarium is 700$ (negotioable)
*Please note that Ms. Goldschmidt will not lecture or present on Friday Eve or Saturday.
Please find more information attached: CV, synopsis and profiles.
Here is some information about Hedva and possible lecture subjects.
Looking forward to hear from you,
Best,
Tali
Tali Cherizli
Director of Film & Media
Office for Cultural Affairs
Consulate General of Israel
800 second avenue
New York, NY 10017
T. 212.499.5440
F. 212.499.5445
talic@newyork.mfa.gov.il
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Hedva Goldschmidt would be happy widen the lens on cutting-edge Israeli films and series, that bring a new Point of View of
Multi-Cultural Israel today.
Below are two recommendations for activities. We will be happy to cooperate on more topics to your request.
An Innovative Glimpse on Jewish religious filmmaking in Israel
SRUGIM
Israel 2008, Fiction, 25 min X 15 episodes
Director: Laizy Shapiro
The young and new creation - Srugim, dealing with religious singles living in Jerusalem, managed to enter Israeli prime time TV and
be came the most talked about series of the year.
Israeli cinema has revolutionized over the past years in regards to cultural and ethnic others. This is partly a result of Ma'ale -
a religious Jewish film school and the Gesher Multi-Cultural Film Fund who supports multi cultural filmmakers from different social
and ethnic backgrounds.
As the advisor to the Gesher foundation and as the founder of the Ma'ale distribution department, Hedva will speak on the
challenges, the difficulties and the successes of the religious cinema in the international world.
The discussion will include sagments from acclaimed Israeli documentary:
Yoel, Israel and Pashkevils, an intimate look on a closed society of the Ultra Orthodox in Mea-Shearim (as a contradiction to the
cinematic approach in SRUGIM).
The New Israeli Jewish Identity
A Green Chariot
Israel 2005, Fiction, 48 min
Director: Gilad Goldschmidt
Twenty two year-old Sasha's greatest wish is to become an Israeli. He has
become religious, changed his name to Yair and speaks only in Hebrew - even when he is addressed in Russian. He has completely cut
himself off from his Russian past, including his father and his Russian friends.
Just before his marriage to his native Israeli girlfriend, Yair discover that his mother was not Jewish.
The revelation forces him to confront his religious beliefs and journey back to the Russian identity he has fought to suppress.
Winner of Silver Remi Award, Huston Int' Film Festival 2006
Winner of Special Jury Prize, Religion Today Film Festival Italy 2006
In Israel today there are more than 300,000 Israeli citizens, mainly immigrants from former Soviet Union, who are not considered to
be Jews by the Jewish Law. The film is not only raising the question of conversion n Israel, but is mainly about the relations
between Israelis and Immigrants, secular and religious and touches the question of identity.
Hedva Goldschmidt, who is the wife of the filmmaker and worked many years in the absorption of immigrants in Israel, bring the
personal stories behind the scenes.
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