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where plays and concerts can be recorded
for future broadcasting or shown live.
Israeli fim companies also frequently have
their films screened on American TV. R&S
Films, run by Alan Rosenthal, a British-born
lecturer in film at the Hebrew University,
, recently had his prize-winning film. One
God, on ABC TV. Yael Roe, American-
born head of American-Israeli Enterprises,
has had documentaries on NBC and
produces a monthly film entitled “Israel
Reports,” which is translated into five
languages and shipped around the world.
Castel Films run by Israeli Micha Shagrir,
gets assignments from the BBC to shoot
segments of their productions in Israel and
even in Africa.
The center of the film industry is Tel Aviv,
where the two major laboratories are
situated. Herzliya Studios, a government
funded business situated just outside ot Tel
Aviv, boasts complete production facilities
for 16mm, 32mm films and video TV
programs. It also possesses the country’s
only satellite station, which beams reports
sent out by NBC, CBS, ABC and other
stations across the world.
The other lab is the privately owned
Berkley Pathe studios, also situated in the
Tel Aviv area. Berkley, like Herzliya,
provides all the production facilities needed
to make a film and also acts as a producer of
feature films, providing its lab facilities and
production services to a director with a
good script.
Like other countries, the cinema in
Israel is being affected by the onslaught of
television, despite the fact that one out of
every 10 Israelis goes to see a film every
week, which puts Israel among the most
movie-oriented countries in the world.
Yoram Golan of the Israel Film Center is
concerned about the potential threat ofTV.
He told me that producers are beginning to
rethink projects in order to try and capture
TV markets abroad.
Generally, Golan is optimistic about the
future. To illustrate present levels of activity
in the field of feature films alone, he showed
me a chart illustrating that there are 22
feature films, at various stages of production
now in progress. Six of these films are
foreign productions. “A new feature, The
Big Red One,"he said, pointing to his chart,
“is a war movie which uses Israel as a
location, even though the action is not set
here. Many companies shoot their pictures
here, even when the plot has nothing to do
with Israel, because we offer very
competitive prices.”
As far as the future is concerned, there
are three film schools in Israel, from which
the future generation of Israeli film-makers
will emerge. Israel is already developing as a
film capital of the world, but according to
Yoram Golan, the best is yet to come.
Watch out Hollywood! Israel Digest
one of the finest units I have ever worked
with anywhere...it is perhaps without
equal.”
Lately, a closer link between Hollywood
and Israel has been established. Six young
talented Israeli directors have been allowed
to apprentice in California with big name
directors like Herbert Ross (The Turning
Point), Alan Pakula (All the President's
Men), Arthur Hiller (Love Story), and
Norman Lear (All in the Family/).
Haim Heffer, a lyricist and the Cultural
Attache at Israel’s Consulate in Los Angeles
remarked about this development: “It is the
best thing that could have happened to
these young directors .. . Israeli audiences
will begin noticing the results ... we are on
our way to having a real Israeli cinema."
Feature films, however, are just the
cream of the Israeli industry where the big
money is made and spent. The bread and
butter of the Israeli companies lies in other
fields, notably, the 16mm documentary film.
Over 100 documentaries are made each
year by the Israeli Film Service, a
government agency which farms out
assignments to the 67 companies which
specialize in documentaries. Some of these
companies, like Idan Films of Jerusalem,
which is one of the most prolific of Israeli film
outfits, work not only for the Film Service
but also for Israeli TV and commercial
producers. Idan recently opened a full-
fledged TV studio in the Jerusalem Theater
by another Israeli, Moshe Mizrahi, who this
year became the first Israeli director to
actually win an Oscar for the best foreign
film ("Madame Rosa” or "La Vie Devant
Sois. ”)
All this is a fairly recent development, of
course. But there was already a long list of
famous stars who had used Israel as the
setting for their films before the
development of the domestic Israeli film
industry. Otto Preminger’s Exodus, which
starred Paul Newman, is probably the best
known example. Others, such as Kirk
Douglas, who made Cast a Giant Shadow
and The Juggler here; Gregory Peck, who
starred in the first Israeli Western, Billy Two
Hats, and recently in The Omen, which was
filmed partly in Israel; and David Carradine,
who recently starred in The Secret Flute, a
science fiction film shot partly in the caves
of the Judean desert, have benefitted from
the facilities offered by the Israeli film
industry.
Well-known directors, such as William
Friedkin (The French Connection) who
have the opportunity to make films in Israel,
praise the facilities here. After making part
of The Sorcerer in Israel, Friedkin wrote
to the Minister of Commerce and Industry
to “express my deepest thanks for the
manner in which our film crew was able to
operate in Jerusalem. I would like you to
know that, without any qualification, it is
Films are becoming big business in Israel.
There are now no less than 67 film
companies, making everything from 30-
second commercials to full-length feature
films. This should not come as too big a
surprise since Hollywood itself utilizes
Jewish talent to the limit.
Jews have long been involved in the film
industry in America, beginning as theater
owners, branching out to chains of theaters
and finally opening their own studios to
make films for their theaters.
So, it is only logical to find that these
Jewish producers, directors, writers and
actors all have their Israeli counterparts.
Producers like Menachem Golan,
considered the “king” of Israeli producers,
who is also a talented writer and director,
began modestly iri Israel, after he studied
drama in London and film in New York.
Golan, who is currently working on a $16
millon dollar project, filming Isaac Bashevis
Singer’s The Magicians of Lublin,already
has four Academy Award nominations to
his credit, the latest for Operation
Thunderbolt, which with a production
budget of $12.5 million was Israel’s biggest
film of all times.
In 1973, the musical Kazablan broke all
box office records in Israel and won Golan a
four-picture deal with MGM in Hollywood.
In 1974, he produced the Oscar nominee,
The House on Chelouche Street, directed
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