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Filmmakers
Ayelet Menahemi Was born in Tel Aviv in 1963. She graduated with honours from the Beit Zvi School of Stage and Cinematic Arts in 1985. Since then she has been working in the Israeli film industry as a director and editor. In 1986 she directed the award-winning drama "Crows" (45 min.), which was followed by two feature films: "The Skippers 3" (1991) and "Tel Aviv Stories" (1992). Her work has also includes numerous television commercials, short fiction films, documentaries and music videos.
Eilona Ariel was
born in Israel in 1958. She moved to New York City in 1978 and spent nine
years studying and working as a musician. In 1980 she received a
diploma from the Germain School of Photography. In 1983-1984 she was
the managing director of the International Production Manual - 'The
Producer's Masterguide.' She left the USA in 1987 and moved to Asia, where
she spent several years. In 1995 she & Ayelet Menahemi established the
production company 'Karuna Films', for which she has produced and
co-directed several documentaries, among them the award winning 'Doing
Time, Doing Vipassana' (1997) which made a great impact on jail systems
all over the world, and won the Pass Award of the National Council on
Crime & Delinquency
(U.S.A.). |
