Gidi Avivi
Gidi Avivi (born 1961) is an Israeli film producer, the founder of Vice Versa Films [1] and a film festival director.
Education and Career
Avivi holds a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Television from Tel Aviv University. Avivi was Head of the Music Department and a music programmer at the IDF radio station; additionally, Avivi was also the popular music critic for Haaretz from 1994 to 2006.[2][3] Between 1994 and 1998 Avivi created (with Yoav Kutner, Ami Amir, Arik Bernstein and Gabriel Bibliowicz) a 12-part documentary series about the history of Israeli rock music, named “Sof Onat Hatapuzim” ("End of the Orange Season").[4] In 2006 Avivi produced two documentary films: Bekummernis (with Ido Sela) and The Cahana Sisters (with Amir Harel and Gilad Melzer).[5][6] In 2008 Avivi produced (with Yael Biron and Dror Nahum) a documentary about Ehud Banai and The Refugees - On The Move.[7]In 2011 Avivi founded Vice Versa Films, a production company.
EPOS – The International Art Film Festival
Since 2009, Avivi, with Micky Laron, is the Festival Director and the Artistic Director of EPOS, the International Art Film Festival .The festival is an annual event based in Tel Aviv. In its inaugural year, the festival guests were Ben Lewis, Sheila Hayman and Rene Letzgus.[8] In 2010 the festival guests were Percy Adlon, Galina Eevtushenko, Lionel Guedj, Yony Leyser, Tom Magill, Sam McClean, Sergey Ovcharov, Tony Palmer, Viktoria Petranyi, Kathie Russo, Helma Sanders-Brahms, and Lucy Walker.[9]
Filmography
2012
- Never Turn Your Back on Sparks (Working title, in development). Director: Pini Schatz[10]; a documentary comedy about musical passions that focuses on fans of the "coolest underrated rock band in the world": Sparks.[11]
- This is Not a Holocaust Film (Working title, filming). Director: Leora Eisenstein; a documentary about the filmmaker's journey to Lviv, her family's hometown before World War II.
2011
- Looking for Moshe Guez (Original title: Le'an Ne'elam Moshe Guez). Director: Avida Livny; a documentary about the filmmaker's search for the Israeli director Moshe Guez and his rarely seen feature film, The Angel was a Devil.
- Running Movie (Original title: Seret Ratz). Director: Omer Peled; a documentary about the Israeli long-distance runner Seteng Ayele (AKA Haile Satayin), the oldest marathon runner in the 2008 Summer Olympic in Beijing and his efforts to compete at the age of 55, in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
2008
- On the Move (Original title: Hayav Lazuz). Director: Avida Livny; a film about courage, friendship and rock and roll, about Ehud Banai and Yossi Elefant, about the Israeli rock band "The Refugees", and espcially about the passion for doing the right thing.
2006
- The Cahana Sisters (Original title: Haahayot Cahana). Director: Gilad Melzer; a group portrait that illuminates a unique and dramatic life journey of four sisters who had survived the death camps together during the Holocaust.
- Bekummernis. Director: Ido Sela; a personal documentary about the director's meetings with his family, friends and neighbors during a visit to kibbutz Kfar HaNassi - a magical childhood landscape in a kibbutz that was transformed into a scene of crime.
1998
- End of the Orange Season (Original title: Sof Onat Hatapuzim); an in-depth documentary series that explores the history of Israeli rock from the 1960s to the 1990s.
References
- ^ Vice Versa Films- Official Website
- ^ Gidi Avivi: Irresistible look at a master, Haaretz, published July 18, 2001
- ^ Gidi Avivi:Expect the unexpected, Haaretz, published February 27, 2004
- ^ Israel Broadcasting Authority on End of the Orange Season – The History of Israeli Rock, 1998
- ^ The New Israeli Foundation For Cinema & TV on Bekummernis
- ^ The Cahana Sisters on dokweb
- ^ On The Move in the 8th edition of the Jewish Motifs International Film Festival
- ^ International Art Festival Coming to Tel Aviv, published October 24, 2009
- ^ Eran Kedar on EPOS 2010 in Programa magazine, issue 3, Fall, 2010
- ^ Never Turn Your Back on Sparks- Trailer
- ^ Iain Lee on Absolute Radio hosting the film's crew
External links
Vice Versa Films official website
Gidi Avivi at the Internet Movie Database
On The Move - Official Website
EPOS-The International Art Film Festival - Official Website
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