With the encouragement of notable directors Keren Yedaya and
Tomer Heiman, Yair set out to direct his script, Good Boys
(Yeladim Tovim), which received acclaim as the Winner of
OUTstanding Emerging Talent Award Outfest; Winner of the
Showtime Vanguard Award NewFest; Jury Grand Prize - Feature
Film image+nation International LGBT Film Festival n Montreal;
Winner of: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director,
Best Cinematography -Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film
Festival; and Winner, Best Israeli Film, Eilat International
Film Festival.
Yair taught cinema to high school students for five years in
Netania. Currently he writes fim reviews for Seret (Film),
Israel’s leading cinema site. He has written articles for the
Cinematheque Magazine, as well as short stories for the Tel
Aviv newspaper and Camera Obscura magazine.

In June, 2006 he co-founded TLVFest: The Tel Aviv
International LGBT Film Festival, which has had continuing
success each year.
In 2007 he directed his second feature Antarctica.
In 2008 he was a member of the Teddy Jury at the Berlin
International Film Festival.

http://www.yairhochner.com/

"does not depend on"

Before making my short film I studied in the flowing places:
- "camera obscora art school in tel aviv "
- creative writing and screen play writing.
- "the school" in tel aviv - a one year course of producing for digital media
- "teatron h'gof" – acting school by the teaching of lacock (France) – in tel aviv.
Acting studies that combine dance and theater movement.

Making my first movie "does not depend upon" that tells the story of 2 religious gay guys who face their sexual identity in front of themselves, god and their orthodox surrounding.
Making that movie my such joy and parallel to that the reviews that were wonderful sent me right away to my current film:
these days I've finished writing a script for my first future film that I will also direct . the film
will be gay oriented ,campi, sexy and very musical.

Galit Florentz
"thought about"

Galit Florentz, won the Composer of the Year award in fringe theatre for her music for “Aloe Vera” at Tmuna theatre in Tel Aviv. She’s an artist who expresses her multifaceted talent uncompromisingly. She sings, plays, writes and composes music for movies and theatre shows; she’s a graduate of Rimon school for music, and has performed with various bands and ensembles for the last 15 years. Florentz is also a plastic artist, graduate of the Midrasha school of art, paints, draws and photographs. Not last and not least, she is also a multimedia artist, a computer programmer, a web-designer, videoclips-director and 3D exhibits, and teaches art at On school of physically challenged children, and also at the Israeli Design Center in Tel Aviv.

Elad Zakai
"Blood money"

Director and screen writer, born 1981 (Tel-Aviv)
Education:
High school major - Art & communication.
Currently attending final year of studies at the Film & Television department of "Tel-Aviv University".

Professional experience:
Writer and director of "Blood Money", a short film produced as a part of the "Fucking Different Tel-Aviv" project.
Director of music videos for major Israeli music labels, all of which have been aired on the Israeli music channel, "Music 24".

Director of documentary segments for several commercial television channels in Israel.
Writer and director of sketches for several entertainment television programs.

Studio director (multi camera) in television.

Eran Koblik Kedar
"the shame"

Born in Israel in 1972. Spent part of childhood in Eastern Europe.
Graduated acting school in 1996, spent a year in NYC and returned to Israel to attend the Tel Aviv University Department of Film and Television. Graduated with a BFA in 2005.

Filmography:

A Trip to Paris (2003, 15 min)
Expelled to Eden (2004, 15 min)
A Short Chronicle of Illness (2006, 37 min)
Kakaphony (2007, 7 min)

nicolasux@gmail.com

Ricardo Rojstaczer
"the shame"

Born in Argentina 1963, immigrated to Israel 1982.
BFA at the Department of Photography and Video at the Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem.
Cinema studies at Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv.
Musical composition with the composer Arik Shapira and at the Rubinstein Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University.

Works (exhibitions)

2007 “Kakaphony” – experimental film
2007 “Shvarim”, Tel Aviv (video + installation)
2005 "Hadrama", Tel Aviv - video
2004 "Uf Li", Tel Aviv - video
2003 "Tuxedo", Jerusalem
2003 "Artza Alinu" , Lodz, Paris
2000 "When Orpheus Was Half a Tone Off Key", Jerusalem
2000 "Chapters", Jerusalem
2000 "1000 Pesos – 4 Shekalim" – documentary film

ricroj@yahoo.com

Nir Ne'Eman
"Yossi + Yasmin"

Program Editor of a new Cineamtheque opened in Herzliya, a town just a bit north to Tel - Aviv
Deep Down - a feature film screenplay in development
2003
 Send me an angel - 50 minutes film, shot on 16 m"m.
Winner audience award for best drama - Turin international gay and lesbian film festival
participated in more then 35 film festivals around the world.
1995
Home - 7.5 min, shot on 16 m"m.
Winner Best cinematography in a short film
participated in about 27 film festivals around the world

Hila Ben Baruch
"political sex"

Born 1987.
Daughter to a German mother and an Iraqi father.
Raised in Givatayim and studied in a completely-normal High school, expending her studies on Biology and Psychology (for some unknown reasons).

On the Age of 18 Hila joined the Israeli Air Force, and after 6 months of training got selected to the Air Traffic Control unite. During her last 5 months in the army she got promoted to be a Lieutenant and commanded more than 40 troops.

After 2 years in the army, Hila moved to New York, working as a sales person for 4 months. While she was browsing an online article about 'Fucking Different TLV' she decided it's time to get back to Tel-Aviv and start fulfilling her long desired dreams about making movies, starting with a short 5 minutes film.

After making 'Fucking Different TLV', Hila joined the 'TLVFest' crew (Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival) and was Yair Hochner's (The festival manager) personal assistant. On her spare time she wrote a weekly lesbian column on 'GoGay' (who got pretty popular), and helped guiding in the 'Israeli Gay Youth Organization'.

Nowadays Hila is working in animation studios and at the same time working on her new short film, she dreams about studying Cinema abroad.

Yossi Brauman
"ASPHA"

I was born in Petach tikva in 1982. Studied cinema in high school, then went on to study film directing in the “Camera Obscura” college in Tel Aviv. My first film, “Anina” (2006), was screened at the first GLBT Film festival in Tel Aviv.
Today I’m the editor of the Gays and Television and DVD sections in Time Out Tel Aviv Magazine and writing my next film.

Sivan Levy
"chercher la femme"

Born in 1987
Studied music at the "Alon" school of arts.
Made her army service as a lead singer of the IDF ensemble.
Played few rolls in television series such as "imale", "room service",  
and in the feature of lina and slava chapin "burning mooki"
And the lead roll at "Chercher La Femme". she also directed, wrote and  
produced it with Eyal Bromberg.

Eyal Bromberg
"Cherchez la femme"

Born in 1987
Studied theatre at the "Alon" school of arts.
After his studies, He volunteered in jewish-arab special elementary  
school.
He directed, wrote and produced "Chercher La Femme" with Sivan Levy.
Today he studies dance-theatre in the Kibbutzim College of Education.

Anat Salomon
"Sometimes you give-sometimes you get"

Now working as a freelance filmmaker, Anat Salomon has amassed substantial
experience for almost two decades as an editor and camera person. She has
engaged in a broad range of productions, from sports and entertainment to
news, documentaries,features and commercials. One of the founders of
Israel's Channel 2, her other projects include work with Fox News, ABC, CBS,
PBS and WNBC Channel 4, as well as France 2 and other international
television networks. She is one of the producers of TLVFest and films she
worked on circulated around the world's most famous film festivals. She has
won numerous awards throughout the years and is now working on her first
feature film.

November Wanderin
"Desarmes"

A nomad by nature, born in the US, she wandered through Europe for 25 years, mainly calling Berlin 'home'; is now based in Tel Aviv. Studied art history, languages and film in Lugano, Switzerland; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Olympia, WA. BA in translation and interpreting. BA in film (screenwriting and directing), The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. Translator of screenplays and treatments for Scripthouse Berlin for several years. First love: writing. Satellites of love: Directing, video art, and photography. Traversed the film landscape from film festival curating to production and distribution. Wrote and directed "Berlin Beshert: Kosher Love in Berlin?" and "The Night Trotsky Came to Dinner". "Désarmés" (Surrender / Außer Gefecht) is a taste of her first feature currently in development: a transnational triptych on Eros set in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and Paris.

Yasmin Max
"public asylum"

is a film & media writer and researcher
after teaching script writing and television studies in several academic schools in Tel Aviv
she is now writing her PhD on queer women in Israeli film & media in London.
She was the artistic director of the first lesbian film series in Cinematheque Tel Aviv (in collaboration with TLVFest)
and is a member of the queer studies group in Tel Aviv. Writing and lecturing on queer / feminist films & television issues.
She wrote and produced the short film Mor/Noga (aka After the Holidays) Public Asylum is her first Dogme film, made from the notion of Dogme as a queer/feminist/lower social class way of making films.
Her main interest is viewing Film & television as tools towards social change.
Working on a script based on the five biblical scrolls - to tell a story about women nowadays.

photos by Lilach Sason
Public Asylum on facebook
maxyasmin@gmail.com

Hagai Ayad
"Nisso"