Solo Avital

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Solo Avital is an autodidact visual effects artist, musician and award winning filmmaker. Avital's critically acclaimed and award winning documentary film ...More Than 1000 Words (2006) about Israel's leading war photographer Ziv Koren, was produces by one of Europe's leading film producer, Oliver Berben.

Solo has been a musician since age 11, at 15 he already directed, filmed and edited his first short documentary film, using his father’s Panasonic M7 VHS camera and editing cut to cut using 2 VHS recorders. The frustration of these primitive means challenged him to master every technology that he could lay his hands on.

In the early 90’s Solo was already an experienced technology wizard. After he won an award for his work as a computer 3D character animator, Solo was invited to Babelsberg Studios in Germany and eventually became the studios visual effects supervisor, also operating the Quantel and Discreet high-end digital compositing tools.

During 5 years in the studios he directed various high budget commercials, created visual effects for several blockbuster films such as “The Legend of 1900” by (Giuseppe Tornatore,) "Lost in Space" by Stephen Hopkins just to name a few. After 5 years in Babelsberg and 10 years of experiencing almost every aspect of filmmaking, he felt ready enough to start directing his own films. By 2006 he completed three feature documentary films of which he wrote, directed, filmed, edited and composed most of the music for.

Solo Avital’s Filmography:

2003 – “Keep On Dancing” 24MIN 2004 – “Art Liberates” 54MIN 2006 – “...More Than 1000 Words”

CV highlights, Awards and Accomplishments:

2006 Film Award: ...More Than 1000 Words Best Feature Documentary Award Winnipeg International film festival - CANADA

2006 Film Award: ...More Than 1000 Words Winner Margrit & Robert Mondavi film prize for peace and understanding Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival - USA

2006 Film Award: ...More Than 1000 Words Best Feature Film Award BRIDGE International Film Festival - Vancouver - CANADA

2006 Film Award: ...More Than 1000 Words Best Professional Documentary Award REEL to REAL Film Festival – NC USA

2006 Film Award: ...More Than 1000 Words Best film of the festival and Best Israeli film. Youngstown's Jewish film festival - USA

2006 - Visual FX supervisor “Africa Mon Amour” (Carlo Rola) 3 times 90min TV ZDF

2005 - Visual FX supervisor “Die Patriarchin” (Carlo Rola) 2 times 90min TV ZDF

2004 - Director/cameraman/editor “Art Liberates” Documentary |

2003 – Director/cameraman/editor “Keep on Dancing” Documentary |

2002 - Visual FX supervisor “Yoplay” Compagin |

2001 - Visual FX supervisor to “Landmine” (Gary Lane) |

2000 - Visual FX supervisor “Olympic Spirit” (IMAX) |

1999 – Director video clip “The Sound In Your Eye” (The Young Gods) |

1998 - Digital compositor artist for “The Legend of 1900” (Giuseppe Tornatore) |

1997 - Digital compositor artist for blockbuster film “Lost In Space” (Stephen Hopkins) |

1996 - Character 3D animator for Babelsberg Studios |

1995 – Director of art department for the Academy of visual arts – Tel Aviv, Israel |

1994 – Prize for the international promo competition for JCS postproduction |