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Renen Schorr Dies: Director, Activist & Founder Of The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School Was 72
Renen Schorr Dies: Director, Activist & Founder Of The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School Was 72
The school, which opened in 1989, was a gamechanger for Israeli cinema with alumni over the past 35 years including Nir Bergman ( Broken Wings), Nadav Lapid ( Synonymes), Tom Shoval ( Youth), Talya Lavie ( Zero Motivation) and Rama Burshtein ( Fill The Void). The screenplay was inspired by Schorr’s involvement in the 1970 Senior’s Letter to Prime Minister Golda Meir – in which a group of high school students questioned the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and suggested they would only sign up for the draft if the government committed to peace – as well as his experiences working as a journalist for the official army magazine during the Yom Kippur war in 1973. Taking inspiration from the Sundance Film Lab, the initiative has incubated dozens of award-winning films over the past 14 years including Laszlo Nemes’s Oscar-winning Son Of Saul, Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher, Antoneta Kusijanovic’s Murina, Philippe Lacote’s Run, Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher, Alvaro Brechner’s Mr. Kaplan, Burhan Qurbani’s We Are Young, We Are Strong and Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story.
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