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Update Creating in Wartime "Keep on Going" that was the message from the director of the film school in Kyiev, Alona Tymoshenko! She told us that a month after the war in Ukraine began, her students came back to school and resumed activity. We held a week of inspiring workshops, panels and screenings ahead of the opening of the new school year.

News The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Awards announced at the close of its celebratory 10th Edition The $50,000 Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Grand Prize, generously donated by the Beracha Foundation, was awarded last night to Zejtune from writer-director Alex Camilleri and producers Rebecca Anastasi from Malta and Ramin Bahrani , USA. Semaine de la Critique artistic director, Ava Cahen , the head of this year’s jury presented the prize at a gala ceremony hosted by the French Consulate in Jerusalem. the jury decided to split the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Emerging Filmmaker Award into two extraordinary projects: Elka’s Not a Shiksa | Aleeza Chanowitz and Red Gold | Mathieu Volpe. FACTORY 54 awarded the $8,000 Artistic Vision Award, to Ice and Cream writer-director: Oshri Zeituni

Update 11th edition of the International Film Lab is in full swing in Jerusalem this week Making a feature film is hard work. And it starts with a strong script and inspiring mentors. Intensive one-on-one meetings take place every day, all week. Our 11th edition participants are lucky to be working with the best script editors in the world! BAFTA winner Clare Downs - has been with the Lab since we started in 2011 is a much sought-after script consultant. Screenwriter and script consultant, Jacques Akchoti has been an integral part of the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab since its inception in 2011. Former head of "Berlinale Generation", Thomas Hailer Thomas Hailer is a much respected a dramaturg and script consultant Script consultant Sari Azoulay Turgeman Sari Turgeman who worked on "Fauda" and just directed her first feature is joining us for the first time.

Awards Congratulations to Tal Tal Komai and Emri Dekel Kadosh, graduate of the Tel Aviv International Film Festival. Tal Komai, a fourth-year student, won the Promising Director Award at the 23rd International Film Festival, which closed on June 26 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque for her film "Shabbat." The independent short film. Credit filmed "The Accident" - Tal Ninio, Roy Shtayim.

News Short Story - Sam Spiegel's student films on the Israeli yes channel The school's welcome collaboration with the Israeli yes channel, as part of which about 100 short films produced by the students during the school's inception, will be broadcast, including the debut films of senior directors in Israel, graduates of the school: Nir Bergman, Talia Lavie, David Ofek, Keren Margalit, Ruthi Perry Bar, Jonathan Indursky and more. The films will be broadcast on the "Short Story" broadcasts on the Israeli yes channel, which was launched on Shavuot, on Sunday, May 16, 2121 and on Monday, May 17, 21 at 10:30 PM, with a selection of Sam Spiegel's most prominent films of all time. From Tuesday 18.5 on a regular nightly broadcast strip.

update "What Has Changed" at Clermont-Ferrand Filmmaker Salomon Chokol was a guest at the leading short film festival, Clermont-Ferrand. In-person festivals are still happening and are very meaningful for the creative process

News Mayor of NYC at Sam Spiegel We were honored to host Eric Adams, Mayor of NYC, at our school last night. He is on a whirlwind visit of Israel and made sure to get an impression of our new campus! After a rooftop reception the mayor was greeted by faith leaders from all over Israel who gave their blessing for a successful journey.

News Five years in a row...! We are on the Hollywood Reporter list of best film schools outside the US JSFS is the only Israeli film school on the prestigeous list. Among the reasons sited for the listing are the School's resiliance during Covid, signing an agreement with the Abu Dhabi Film Commission, and our upcoming move to our new state of the art campus in central Jerusalem.

news Freedom of Speech: a symposium for our times "Imagine" - we invited four panelists to address our school community about the topic of freedom of speech and creativity. Following a screening of the Academy Award winning documentary "Navalny", our students had the chance to learn from leading thinkers such as Hagai Levi and Ilana Dayan.

NEWS First place! CILECT Prize 2023 "Before Bedtime", the award-winning documentary by Fábio Zilberman Iuchno just took first place in the 2023 CILECT Prize! Each year film schools worldwide choose and rank the best student films - and this year the best documentary was awarded to our student!

News Plenty of premieres and winnings for school graduates at the Doc Aviv International Documentary Film Festival Doc Aviv 2021 The International Documentary Film Festival in Tel Aviv took place this year between July 1-10 and presented an impressive series of seven films created, produced and directed by school graduates: "The treatment". Director and producer Zvi Lanzman co-producer: Uri Sternfeld The Israeli competition wins the Jury Prize in the amount of NIS 10,000 "Blue box." Director: Michal Weitz Co-producer: Uri Shamali The Israeli competition wins the research award in the amount of NIS 7,000 for Lily Yudinsky and Michal Weitz "To be Anat Kam." Co-producer: Omri Ozard (Israeli competition) "Nelson's Last War." Director and Producer: Avi Maor Marzouk (Israeli Competition) "Anat Gov, on life and death." Producer: Autumn Maron Morag "Emergency squad". Directed and produced by Idan Glickslig "Shlomo Bar - Documentary Musical". Director and producer: Gilad Inbar Two students from Pitching Dokaviv School also won: A production grant from the Gesher Foundation for Multicultural Cinema in the amount of NIS 20,000 The Traveler Fabio Zilberman Jungle Sound Grant for Sound Editing At home | Rachel Schatz Grants in the total amount of NIS 33,000 were awarded to graduation films intended for Pitching Dokaviv for students In the Docaviv Pitching for Documentary Final Films, which was held at Beit Ariela on Tuesday, July 6, 11 final films from eight colleges and vocational schools participated.

Sam Spiegel Series Lab! "Netflix and Sam Spiegel- a match made in Heaven" The first edition of the Sam Spiegel Series Lab ended with a BANG! The full working-week in Los Angeles culminated with an award reception where the $20,000 Netflix Series Development Award, presented by Ted Sarandos, was awarded to Insignificant by Mindi Ehrlich , produced by Efrat Dror . The jury stated the award was granted to “a powerful story with an inspiring protagonist. The project balances a compelling personal story with an engaging narrative and a global appeal, while bringing an untold story to light”. The $10,000 WestEnd Upcoming Talent Award, was awarded to Wafa by Benjamin Freidenberg and Ihab Jadallah , produced by Amir Harel & Ayelet Kait. The jury stated the award was granted to “a bold and risky story, set in a world yet to be seen onscreen, where the protagonists must live a lie to live their truth.”