Jury
International Short Films Competition
Niv Manzur
Film director and actor from Israel.
His first short film “Happy BirthGay” won the Best Short Film award at the 17th edition of the TLVfest, was nominated for the Best Short Film at Ophir Awards, colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars, and these days is being screened at festivals around the world.
Currently, Niv is in the midst of his acting studies as well as writing another short film.
Yuval Barnea
Film director and screenwriter.
Bachelor of film and television from Tel-Aviv university. Her debut movie – “Belongs to Anat” received an honourable mention award at the TLVfest 2022, and screened at festivals around the world. Her second film “In Spite of Love”, premiere at the TISFF THESS intershort film festival in October.
Gabi Aloni
Director of Young Adult content and Industry department at Tel Aviv Cinematheque, active in the LGBT community. Has special interest in the connection between philosophy, cinema and representations of LGBT women in world cinema.
International Documentary Competition
Lena Turel
Director, producer, photographer and a creator.
An activist in the LGBT arena as founder and copartner of influential movement in the community, active in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, takes an active part in the municipal and national politics, works for the advancement of Mizrahi women.
An experienced executive producer, post producer and an international festival producer. Film lecture for youth at risk.
Won a commendation for her film “Negative” at the Haifa 22nd International Film Festival.
As an activist and a creator, her every activity is influenced by social-political agenda and vice versa.
Today she׳s working on a personal documentary film.
Sharon Luzon
Graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School.
The creator of the film “Third Person”, a 60-minute documentary, broadcast channel Yes Docu, premiered at DocAviv 2015.
Creator of the film “Inbal Perlmutter – If You Let Me Go” (together with Avigail Sperber) that won DocAviv Best Film Award 2023 and the Ofir Award for a full-length documentary film 2023.
Shir Newman
Director of award-winning documentaries (“How to Say Silence” 2021, “Tamar and Amnon” 2019).
Photography and editing studio owner.
Newman is an activist and co-founded Bush Collective, a platform and voice for queer art.
Youth Competition
Talya Bartfeld
Talya Bartfeld is an Israeli comedian and actress.
Elad Shalev
Graduated from the School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. He is a film critic and has been the editor of Israel’s largest cinema website – Seret.co.il – since 2014. He hosts cinema segments on a variety of TV and radio programs, gives lectures on cinema, and was a lector at the LGBT Festival – TLVfest. He also works as a home page manager on the large news website Mako, which is owned by the channel Keshet 12.
Noga Itach
Originally from Hakrayot, Noga and her brother Daniel create songs and music videos that are unique in the Israeli indie-pop scene. With electronic influences and curiosity about relationships between lesbians in the age of the internet, Noga’s songs have captured attention and have been played on the radio, MTV, as well as in two Kan11 series – “Dismissed” (‘Everybody’s In Love With Me’) and “Sovietzka” (‘Growing Pains’).
Pitching Competition
Hilla Medalia
Peabody winning and Emmy nominated director/producer with over 20 years of experience in the documentary field.
Hilla Medalia is the founder of award-winning Medalia Productions whose films have aired by the leading broadcasters in the world, including MTV, HBO, Arte, Netflix, Paramount, and BBC and screened at the Venice Biennale, Cannes, Berlinale and Sundance among others.
Guy Ofran
Head of Short and Student films department at the Gesher Film Fund and an award-winning screenwriter, whose debut feature “Sharqiya” was premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won 3 awards in the 2012 Jerusalem film festival including best picture.
He is the creator and writer of the TV drama series “Dead Sea” bought by Kan11 and is set to premiere in 2023.
Aurit Zamir
Producer, writer and creator of films and television.
With her company Gum Films she has produced. among others, “The Future”, Noam Kaplan (Tribeca FF, 2023), “Delegation”, Asaf Saban (Berlinale 2023), “Asia”, Ruthy Pribar (Best Film – Israel Academy Awards, 2020, Tribeca FF, 2020 – awarded for directing, acting and cinematography). The series “The Truth” which she created and wrote with Daphna Levin for Kan11 will air in late 2023.
Aurit served as director of the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab and co-founded the Sam Spiegel Series Lab.
Mor Eldar
