DOC LAB TLV

Sun | 25.5 | 12:00 | Cinematheque 5

PROJECTS PRESENTATION

The unique rough-cut lab founded by Docaviv and the New Fund for Cinema and TV, with the support of Mifal Hapais 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.

Five Israeli projects were selected for the lab, which will run for three consecutive days. At the end of the lab, a cash prize of 5,000 NIS will be awarded to the selected project, as chosen by the mentors, courtesy of Brosh Real Estate Group.

Join us for the first day of the lab, featuring presentations and discussion of the five 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.

Alex Szalat

Alex Szalat is the Head of Doc’s Up Fund, an Association dedicated to feature-length documentaries about Human rights. From September 2011 until March 2019, he was Deputy Head of the Documentary Department of Arte France (Society and Culture).
From 2008 to 2011, he headed the current affairs, social issues, and geopolitical department at Arte France.
From 2005 to 2008, he was a commissioning editor for the Geopolitical Europe and Society department of Arte France. Alex Szalat began his career in 1977 as a director of short films, documentaries, and TV series. His filmography extensively covers a wide range of aspects dealing with European life, culture, and society. In 1987, Alex Szalat founded KS VISIONS, an independent producers’ company that has produced over one hundred documentary films and TV series for Canal+, Arte, FR3, FR2, TF1, Planete, IBA, RTBF, VRT, Dutch Channel 1, amongst others.

Tereza Simikova

Tereza Simikova is a producer, filmmaker, and consultant. Since 2016, she has served as the International Program Consultant of Chicken and Egg Pictures, curating international financing, distribution, and festival strategies for its female and gender-expansive grantees. Alongside that position, she’s recently worked as the Head of Forum and later Head of Industry & Training at CPH:DOX (2018-23). Previously, she was the Program Manager of the international rough-cut workshop dok.incubator (2012-16). She was the Head of East Doc Platform, the largest co-production market and pitching forum in the Central and Eastern European region (2016-18). With a master’s degree in documentary directing from FAMU, Prague, in 2009, Tereza has been a member of several programming committees (e.g., IDFA, Karlovy Vary IFF, Doc Society, Malta Film Commission), and has been mentoring at international documentary workshops (EAVE on Demand, Documentary Campus, Ex Oriente Film, Doc Lab Poland, Doc Lab Tel Aviv). This is her fifth edition as a mentor of Doc Lab TLV.

Participating Films

A RHINO’S TALE

Director & Editor: Meital Zvieli
Producer: Avigail Sperber

Rushdi, a Muslim Palestinian citizen of Israel, has a lot in common with Shalom, an aging rhinoceros he cares for at
Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo. In telling their story, the film wrestles with notions of captivity, relationships, both personal
and political, and the wistful longing for peace in a region plunged into war.