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PROJECTS PRESENTATION

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.

Filmmakers and industry professionals are invited to the first day of the lab – presentation and discussion of the selected projects.

Mentors

JOËLLE ALEXIS

Born in Belgium and based in Tel Aviv and Brussles, 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: Black notebooks (Cannes 2022), 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 Simikova

Tereza is a documentary filmmaker, producer and consultant, coming from the Head of Industry and Training position at CPH:DOX (2022-23), where she previously served as a Head of Forum (2018-22). With a master in documentary filmmaking from FAMU, Prague in 2009, she directed short documentaries, served as a Program Manager of an international rough-cut workshop dok.incubator (2012-16), 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 (2016-18). Alongside her other employments, Tereza has served as an International Program Consultant of Chicken and Egg Pictures since 2016.

Thomas Krag

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 the former Head of Editing at the Danish School, mentoring students in both fiction and documentary editing alongside fellow teacher and former head of documentary, 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 was also a dok.incubator tutor from 2019-2020, as well as a tutor at Close Up workshop in Berlin 2021, and is currently tutoring at the LABED Barcelona workshop.

Daan Vermeulen

Daan is Managing Director (one of two) at Dutch documentary film distributor Cinema Delicatessen. Vermeulen is in charge of operational affairs, day to day management of theatrical distribution and acquisitions.
Titles he worked on include Close to Vermeer, Collective, The Mole Agent, The Cave, A Strange Love Affair with Ego, The Act of Killing, CITIZENFOUR, I Am Not Your Negro, Kedi, Maidan, Sergio Herman: Fucking Perfect, Those Who Feel the Fire Burning, Weiner. In recent years Vermeulen has become a regular guest lecturer at the Netherlands Film Academy, has been a jury member at festivals like Docville and Docaviv, has been a member of selection committees for the IDFA Forum and IDFA Bertha Fund, and currently part of the Curator Board of streaming platform Cinetree. Before joining Cinema Delicatessen, he worked at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

THE WHALE

Director: Eliya swartzz | Editor: Maya Kenig | Producers: Elad Peleg, Haggai Arad

Three unlikely heroes band together to fight against
a polluting Israeli gas rig set to be built in front of their homes.

AMOS GUTMAN: FINAL DRAFT

Director and Editor: Shauli Melamed | Producer: Gil Sima

Our film profiles Amos Gutman, the pioneering Israeli filmmaker who tackled taboo subjects. Through rare interviews and edited film scenes, we explore Gutman's legacy in Israeli cinema.

KEEPER OF SHEEPS

Director, Editor and Producer: Hadara Oran

The film tells the story of people who live the reality of the occupation in their daily lives, are affected by it and trapped by it, and the consequences of this existence on Israeli society.

MONOGAMIA

Director, Editor and producer: Ohad Milstein

Is there a way to avoid intimacy exhaustion in a monogamous marriage?
After 50 years together, love is no longer present in my parents' relationship. Echoing my marriage nowadays, the question arises if there is a way to keep the spark.