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News Krakow International Film Festival The graduation documenatary film "Before Bedtime" by Fabio Zilberman Iuncho will be screening as part of the official competition at the prestigious Krakow International Film Festival. The festival takes place at the end of May - good luck Fabio!

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 Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos visited the School: “We are looking for local, authentic stories” The CEO of Netflix, Ted Sarandos, made a special trip to Jerusalem for a conversation and meeting with students at the renowned Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. The visit included a talk in front of students with actress Shira Haas. Ted Sarandos said in conversation with Shira Hass : “All you need is community, and if we learned anything tonight it is that the world needs you. Your projects are going to change the world, it might take a year, it might take ten. But it’s going to happen. That’s why we are so proud of this affiliation, the first of its kind”. When asked “what advice would you give your 21-year-old self?” Sarandos replied: “Most people would say follow your passion. This might sound counter-intuitive, but the best advice I have heard is to do what you are good at, and the passion will follow."

News Series Lab - Third Edition! Good luck to the eight Israeli projects who are embarking on their journey to develop their scripts in the third edition of the Series Lab! Aleeza Chanowitz; Boaz Frankel; Tomer Shushan; Adi Adwan; Bar Cohen and Tohar Sherman-Friedman; Aurit Zamir and Shiri Nevo Fridental; Marc Grey and Nitai Gat; and Rita Borodiyanski. Out of 100 submissions these eight projects were selected to take part in the Series Lab and to work on the development of their series in the local and international market under the guidance of leading industry professionals including Noah Stollman; Keren Margalit; Ossi Nishri; Gal Zaid as well as former HBO drama head David Levine and producer Joe Peracchio. The Lab is generously supported by production company New Mandate Films, producer Gideon Tadmor; The Jerusalem Municipality and The Sam Spiegel Estate

News School films at the Haifa International Film Festival "The Dregs" by recent grad Yuval Nitzan, and the documentary "Brigadeiro" by Fabio Iuchno Zilberman will both be screening at the Haifa International Film Festival which opens Oct 19th

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.

Honor Hollywood Reporter 2025 List! The Hollywood Reporter has published its 2025 list of leading film schools and the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School is the only Israeli film school on the list - and for the eighth time. For the eighth time the Hollywood Reporter has selected the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School as one the 15 best international film schools. The annual list includes leading films schools from around the world who offer the best and most up-to-date study programs. The Hollywood Reporter sited among their reasons for including the school in their listing: “the country’s premier film school continued with its program for Palestinians and Arabic-speaking students, now in its fourth year, ensuring Sam Spiegel remains one of the only institutions in the region where Jewish, Muslim and Christian students - both Israeli and Palestinian - study, live and create side by side.”

Winners! First Place! at the Haifa International Film Festival 2025 "The Insurance Fairy", Tal Chaimovitz's graduation film, won first place in the student film competition. In addition, fourth year student Ran de Lange took second place in the student pitching competition, alongside his producer Talia Tai Bitton.

Awards Congratulations to Yuval Nitzan graduate on winning his final film "Berra" at the Best Film Award at the Tbilisi International Student Film Festival! Congratulations to Yuval Nitzan graduate on winning his final film "Berra" at the Best Film Award at the Tbilisi International Student Film Festival!

News Jerusalem Film Festival We are proud to have a great crop of alumni films screening in the various sections of the 40th Jerusalem Film Festival! Best of luck to Tom Shoval, Matan Yair, Ihab Tarbieh, Noam Kaplan, Rafael Balulu, Asaf Lapid, Nayef Hamoud, Rotem Kapelinsky and Tsivia Barkai-Yaakov.

prizes Major Prizes at DocAviv 2025 Congratulations to our alumni Roni Levine & Michael Anug, whose "Temporary Identity" won second place - and to Amnon Helsberg for his third-place win for his film "After Counting All Votes". A great achievment!

news Margarita Linton wins DocAviv Mayor of Tel Aviv Award Thrilled to announce that our alumna and teacher, Margarita Linton, has won the DocAviv 2022 prize for Best Debut Film. The jury statement reads: "This bold and creative debut feature appears to use cinema in an inventively therapeutic manner that showed great promise to this jury. Choosing to approach the subject of an artist and their work through the complicating factor of the director's own proximity to this artist, the film offers both a dual portrait narrative and a struggle for authorship and agency that exhibits real potential all the way to the film's closing revelations. Margarita and Yaniv Linton, with this debut work, have marked themselves out as a directorial duo to watch in coming years."