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Waltz in Gaza

04-Mar-09

This video was made by Yoni Goodman, one of the animators that worked on Waltz with Bashir:
Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement calls on the State of Israel to fully open Gaza’s crossings and to allow the real victims of the closure – 1.5 million human beings – the freedom of movement necessary [...]

Filed in Oy Vey, People, Trips in Israel, Video Log | Also tagged Gaza, Gisha, Israeli - Palestinian Relations, Yoni Goodman | Comments (1) »

Waltz with Bashir and the 18th Israeli Knesset

25-Feb-09

Regrettably, Ari Folman’s animated doco-fantasy film “Waltz with Bashir” didn’t win the Best Foreign Film at the 2009 Academy Awards presentation in Hollywood. With just a month passing after winning the Golden Globes film award, the American film industry second biggest awards extravaganza, hope had been high that Folman’s film would pull it off, especially [...]

Filed in Culture, Oy Vey, People, Political Crap | Also tagged Avigdor Lieberman, Binyamin Netanyahu, Cast Lead, Oscars, Tzipi Livni, Yossi Sarid | Comments (0) »

A Creative Strike

23-Feb-09

Many employees of the Israeli movie and television industry are opening a three-day strike tomorrow to object the fact that the major TV networks in Israel do not meet the minimum requirements of original Israeli productions. Money that should have been used to create Israeli drama and Israeli film, has been “illegally” diverted to other [...]