Sam Spiegel Film and Television School

The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School was founded in 1989 by the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture and the Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s first independent, national school for film and television. At a ceremony at MOMA In 1996, it was renamed in honor of the Academy Award-winning American Jewish producer Sam Spiegel, with the support of the Sam Spiegel Estate.

The school has been the subject of some 190 tributes and retrospectives in 55 countries at international festivals, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1996), the Rotterdam Festival (1997), the Havana Festival (1999), the Moscow Festival (1999), the Valladolid Film Festival (Spain, 2000), FIPA Festival - Biarritz (France, 2004) the Berlin International Film Festival (2004), the Hamptons Festival (2005) and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France (2005), and Sarajevo Film Festival (2008). In 2016 the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University held a tribute to the school.^[1] The School has been the subject of a number of tributes and retrospectives. The school's films have won 420 international and local prizes, including twice the First Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2008 Anthem, by Elad Keidan was awarded First Prize in the Student Film competition at the prestigious Cinéfondation section. This marked the first ever such win by an Israeli student film in Cannes, and in 2015 Or Sinai won for her film Anna.^[2]^[3]^[4]

76% of the school's graduates work in the industry. Among the school’s most prominent alumni are Rama Burshtein, Nadav Lapid, Talya Lavie, Tom Shoval, Nir Bergman, Noah Stollman, Elad Keidan and Ra'anan Alexandrowicz.^[5]

The former director of the New York Film Festival, Richard Peña, said in 2011 at the tribute to the school at Columbia University: “Israeli cinema can be divided into two periods—before and after the establishment of the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School.”

History

In 1988, a student protest took place at the film department of the Beit Zvi School of Art in Ramat Gan, then the sole film school supported by the state. Charging that Beit Zvi gave preference to the acting track, the film students demanded independence. The Education and Culture Minister at the time, President Yitzhak Navon established a public inquiry that supported their claims. He then decided to create a new independent, well-funded school for film and television, the first of its kind in Israel.

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Educational tracks

The school works on a triangular model.

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In 1999, the school began a two-year track for screenwriters, with the aim of creating a model for cooperation between screenwriters and directors, and with a specialization in writing for television.

In 2004, the first four-year track for entrepreneur producers in Israel was launched at the school.

Each of the three tracks operates autonomously. The school trains its students to reach a synergy of the tracks, leading to future cooperation beyond the school framework.

Milestones

The school has worked to promote its students and graduates – and by extension Israeli film and international film in general.

The Jerusalem Film and Television Fund was initiated in 2008 by Renen Schorr and is the first municipal film fund in Israel. Opening options for Israeli professionals and international filmmakers, the fund supports productions of films and television series shot in Jerusalem.
The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab was launched in December 2011, with the goal of fostering the development and production of full-length feature films by some of the world’s most promising young talents. The Lab became the third film lab of its kind in the world, along with The Sundance Institute and The Torino Film Lab in Italy. The Academy Award-winning film Son of Saul, by László Nemes was developed at the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab in 2015.^[6]^[7]
The Sam Spiegel Alumni Film Fund. Set up in 2014 in partnership with ARP Selection, France, with the aim of supporting alumni as they make their first feature film. Support from the Sam Spiegel Foundation, as well as the school, award $100,000 to a Sam Spiegel graduate in order to help produce a first feature film.
The Ha’aretz Short Script Prize a partnership with the Ha’aretz newspaper was initiated in 2015. Partnering also with the Gesher Foundation, the prize is granted to the best original screenplay for a film under 10 min. The winning script is published in both the print and online editions, and is produced within nine months of receipt of the prize. The completed film premieres at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
In 2017 an alliance between the school and SONY Classics was initiated. For the first time, as part of an annual venture, in April 2017, during the Tribeca Film Festival, SONY Classics chose four graduates of the Marcie Bloom Fellows and four graduates of the Sam Spiegel Film School for an active seminar in New York to create cooperation with leading film schools in the greater NY area.^[8]

Anniversaries

In 2005, the school celebrated its 15th anniversary with a tribute at the Jerusalem Film Festival and with the naming of the street where the school is located the “Sam Spiegel Alley”. The school also released a DVD series of its ten best films, selected by 60 leading film personalities from 17 countries. The judges included: Pedro Almodóvar, Paul Newman, Gus Van Sant, Luc Besson, Nikita Mikhalkov, Jeanne Moreau, Peter Weir, Andrzej Wajda, István Szabó, Atom Egoyan, Paul Auster, Theo Angelopoulos, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Minghella, Todd Haynes, Willem Dafoe, Samira Makhmalbaf, Steve Buscemi, Dusan Makavejev, Saul Zaentz, Walter Murch.^[9]
The 20th anniversary celebrations took place in March 2011 in New York City, where New York University, Columbia University and the School of Visual Arts united to pay tribute to the Sam Spiegel Film School. A collection of the 20 Best of the School was issued, selected by 20 leading film festival directors.^[10]
The 25th anniversary of the School was celebrated in 2015 at the YMCA in Jerusalem where the theme for the evening was Lawrence of Arabia in Jerusalem.

In late 2017 the school will be issuing a special release of “The 100” - a 4 DVD collection of the 25 Best Shorts ever of the school selected by a jury of 50 leading film critics and 50 leading directors of film schools from around the world.

References

↑ "Cambridge to pay tribute to Sam Spiegel Film School". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ Anderman, Nirit (2013-06-20). "Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival: Three Promising Filmmakers". Haaretz. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ "Cannes: Student Film Prizes Unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ Hopewell, John (2016-05-20). "Cannes: Naomi Kawase Jury Awards ‘Anna’ Cinefondation First Prize". Variety. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ Anderman, Nirit (2012-07-01). "Two Israeli Films to Compete at Venice Film Festival". Haaretz. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ "Play it again, Sam". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ "The Jerusalem International Film Lab | Son of Saul". filmlab.jsfs.co.il. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ Keslassy, Elsa (2017-04-21). "Bloom/Spiegel Partnership Unveils Participants at Tribeca Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ "Sam Spiegel Film and Television School 15th Anniversary Gala Evening | The Pavilion". www.pavilionjerusalem.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
↑ "MidnightEast » Blog Archive » Manhattan Celebrates Sam Spiegel Film School". www.midnighteast.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.

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