Exclusive: Actor Lior Ashkenazi has boarded Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory’s Mosolov’s Suitcase, exploring the life and legacy of Ukrainian, early Soviet era, avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov.
Ashkenazi, who is Israel’s biggest acting star, is known for his award-winning performances in Israeli features Late Marriage, Footnote, Foxtrot, Walk On Water and Karaoke as well as HBO series Our Boys.
He is currently appearing opposite Helen Mirren in Guy Nattiv’s Golda Meir bio-pic Golda.
Mosolov’s Suitcase is a joint production between Alvaro Fernandez at L.A.-based Monolithic Films; Gidi Avivi at Vice Versa Films in Tel Aviv, and Rubber Ring Films, the joint Santa Monica-based company of Mishory and Bradford L. Schlei.
The upcoming picture is described as a hybrid, black-and-white meditation on the titular’s subject’s controversial life, told through three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state power.
In the first of three intersecting plotlines,...
Ashkenazi, who is Israel’s biggest acting star, is known for his award-winning performances in Israeli features Late Marriage, Footnote, Foxtrot, Walk On Water and Karaoke as well as HBO series Our Boys.
He is currently appearing opposite Helen Mirren in Guy Nattiv’s Golda Meir bio-pic Golda.
Mosolov’s Suitcase is a joint production between Alvaro Fernandez at L.A.-based Monolithic Films; Gidi Avivi at Vice Versa Films in Tel Aviv, and Rubber Ring Films, the joint Santa Monica-based company of Mishory and Bradford L. Schlei.
The upcoming picture is described as a hybrid, black-and-white meditation on the titular’s subject’s controversial life, told through three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state power.
In the first of three intersecting plotlines,...
- 12/22/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Israeli superstar musician David Broza is readying his first major film project.
The film, East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem, was shot during the making of his latest album of the same name.
Erez Miller and Henrique Cymerman direct the project, which is produced by Tel Aviv-based Gidi Avivi of Vice Versa Films.
Financiers include The Marc Rich Foundation, The abc* Foundation and private backers. The House of Marley also supports the project.
The film will have an 80-minute runtime (a 60-minute TV version will also be cut); it is in the final stages of post-production now for launch at an autumn film festival. A late 2014 or early 2015 theatrical launch will follow.
Broza told Screen here at the Jff that the documentary will have a “journalistic.” “We put the film in motion to explain the whole project,” he added, noting that 100 hours of footage were shot.
The music and film project is part of Broza’s push to unite...
The film, East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem, was shot during the making of his latest album of the same name.
Erez Miller and Henrique Cymerman direct the project, which is produced by Tel Aviv-based Gidi Avivi of Vice Versa Films.
Financiers include The Marc Rich Foundation, The abc* Foundation and private backers. The House of Marley also supports the project.
The film will have an 80-minute runtime (a 60-minute TV version will also be cut); it is in the final stages of post-production now for launch at an autumn film festival. A late 2014 or early 2015 theatrical launch will follow.
Broza told Screen here at the Jff that the documentary will have a “journalistic.” “We put the film in motion to explain the whole project,” he added, noting that 100 hours of footage were shot.
The music and film project is part of Broza’s push to unite...
- 7/13/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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