Tuesday, May 25th, 18:00
Advanced registration required,
free of charge
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The unique rough-cut lab founded by Docaviv and the New Fund for Cinema and TV is offering professional guidance and personal acquaintance with senior international mentors in the fields of production, direction, distribution, and festivals, for documentary projects in editing and rough-cut stages. Four Israeli projects were selected for the lab, which will run for three consecutive days.
The lab will be headed by Joëlle Alexis.
DOC LAB TLV Award
The award is made possible by a generous donation from The Boltansky Family (Baltimore, MD)
Filmmakers and industry professionals are invited to the first day of the lab – presentation and discussion of the selected projects.
In collaboration with Mindspace
The Mentors
Joëlle Alexis
Senior Israeli-Belgian Film Editor
Born in Belgium and based in Tel Aviv, Joelle Alexis is one of Israel’s top film editors. She has been working on full-length documentaries, as well as on fiction films, for over 20 years. Her works have been selected by festivals such as Cannes, IDFA, Sundance, and many others. A few of the recent documentaries she has worked on are Speer Goes to Hollywood (Berlinale 2020), Leftover Women (Tribeca & Hotdocs 2019), Muhi: Generally Temporary (IDFA 2017), and Twilight of a Life (Visions du Reel 2015). In recent years Joelle has been the editing consultant on documentaries like Cine Morocco (Leipzig FF 2018, Docaviv 2019), Silas (TIFF 2017), and Becoming Who I Was (Berlinale 2017). She tutors at the Sundance Edit Lab, Doc Campus, EsoDoc and is part of the RoughCutService team of consultants.
Tereza Šimíková
Head of CPH:FORUM
Tereza is the Head of CPH:FORUM, CPH:DOX’s main financing and co-production platform and the International Program Consultant of Chicken and Egg Pictures, New York and San Francisco based international fund and training for female documentary filmmakers. After graduating with a degree in documentary filmmaking from FAMU, Prague, in 2009, she directed short documentaries, including the award-winning Double Life of Saint Vit. Tereza served as the Program Manager of the international rough-cut workshop dok.incubator and as the program director of its local workshops (DOK.Restart in Poland, DOK.SK in Slovakia, and dok.elevator for Nordic producers), and the Head of Industry of East Doc Platform, the largest co-production market and pitching forum focused on the Central and Eastern European region.
Ania Trzebiatowska
Sundance Documentary Programmer
Ania Trzebiatowska is a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, focusing on US and World documentary features. Most recently, she was the Sales & Acquisitions Executive for doc sales agency Autlook Filmsales. Prior to that, she was with the NYC-based agency Visit Films, where she served as Senior Director of Acquisitions since 2015. Aside from her work at Sundance, Ania is also the artistic director of Off Camera IFF (Krakow, Poland), which she has been programming since 2008. She trained in production and post-production at the BBC and the British Museum and holds a Master’s degree in Film Studies as well as an M.A in Digital Culture and Technology.
Thomas Krag
Senior Danish Film and Television Editor
Thomas Krag has been a film and television editor for over 25 years. Since receiving his degree from the National Film School of Denmark in 1989, he has gone on to collaborate with directors such as Lars von Trier, Jonas Cornel, Åke Sandgren, Jens Johnson, Rumle Hammerich, Henrik Ruben Genz, Anne Wivel, Ole Bornedal, and several others. From 2007 to 2010, Thomas was the Feature Film Commissioner at the Danish Film Institute and was the Danish Eurimages representative. He is currently Head of Editing at the Danish School, mentoring students in both fiction and documentary editing alongside fellow teacher and director Arne Bro. Additionally, Thomas works as a supervising and consulting editor around the world and leads masterclasses at film schools and universities primarily in Nordic countries. He is also a dok.incubator 2020 tutor.
The Participating Projects:
Razzouk Tattoos
Director: Orit Ofir Ronell
Producer: Amir Harel & Ayelet Kait
Editor: Daniel Ben Mayor
Wassim Razzouk, the sole heir to a 500-year lineage of Coptic Christian tattoo artists from Jerusalem, sets out to complete his collection of ancient wooden stencils before they are lost forever.
KAN – IPBC, Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
The Bankers Trial
Director: Eliav Lilti
Producer: Stav Meron
Editor: Neta Braun
Five penniless people declare war against the most powerful figures of the financial system.
TZIPORA AND RACHEL ARE DEAD
Director, Producer and Editor: Hadar Morag & Tahel Ran
After 30 years of failed efforts, Tahel manages to persuade her sister Tzipora to leave the psychiatric hospitals she has been living in and come ''home'' with her, to the small apartment she rents in Tel-Aviv.
The New Fund for Cinema and TV, Mifal HaPayis
Unraveled
Director: Hillel Rate
Producer: Avigail Sperber
Editor: Shira Meishar
When Amotz was 20-years-old, he was sexually assaulted. The film follows Amotz’s journey to accept himself as a man despite experiencing sexual abuse, and to the understanding that he is innocent.