Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae Prof. Avner Faingulernt – Curriculum Vitae [email protected] Work Address: School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College D.N. Hof Ashkelon 79165 - Israel Tel: +972-8-680-2708 Fax: +972-8-680-2634 [email protected] Present Position: Appointed October 2001 Founder and Dean emeritus - School of Audio & Vis- ual arts Sapir College http://cinema.sapir.ac.il Founder and Director emeritus of Cinema South Fes- tival http://csf.sapir.ac.il Chief editor Cinema South book Education: Page 1 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae 2005 - 2009 M. Phil - PhD. Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Stud- ies at University of East London Dissertation topic - The Father's Return in the Modern European Cinematic Odysseys Director of Studies: Prof. Haim Bresheeth Supervisors: Dr. Paul Gormley Dr. Anat Pick 1990 - 1993 B.A. Department of Film and Television Depart- ment of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, Israel Employment History: 2001- 2017 Dean - school of Audio & Visual Arts - Sapir College 2012 -2017 Head of MA/MFA Film, Theory & Production Sapir 2002 -2017 Founder and Director of Cinema South Festival 2006 -2017 Founder & Co Editor of The Curator book- Cinema South 2011-2017 Lecture at MA program at the faculty of humanities in Culture and Cinema, Haifa University 2013-2017 Visiting Professor FAMU Prague Documentary Department 2012 Visiting professor at Columbia University N.Y.C – Israel Jew- ish Studies 1997- 2016 Independent producer and director 1995-1996 Documentary director for Keshet broadcast Channel 2 Areas of Teaching: 2012-2017 “Cinema of Poetry” Practice through Theory 2013-2017 “ Journey Films at the Desert” Practice through Theory 2008 - 2017 “The European Journey Films – a Lacanian reading” 2012 -2014 "Israeli Documentary Cinema – Real and Reality" 2008- 2017 “Directing and production for diploma film” 2006- 2010 “The European Cinema” introductory course 2005- 2011 “Cinematic language” introductory course 2000- 2012 “Documentary film making” introductory workshop Page 2 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae 2002- 2010 “Research and script for documentary films” 2003-2010 "Film festival production and programming" 2000- 2006 “Experimental cinema” workshop 2000 “Research and script for documentary films” Page 3 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae Films: In The Desert - 2018 (in post production) – Co Producer, Director, Cinema- tographer Two documentary features about two families who live at Firing Zone 918 – part of the desert of the West Bank of the Jordan. The first family is of Jewish Settlers (Youth Top Hill), the second of Palestinian shepherds. The two fami- lies live near to one another, on two sides of a desert valley. They share simi- lar motivations. The Palestinian and The Jewish men have decided to bring their families in the desert to live from their flocks. The films observe at the two families, each one separately, how they maintain their life at the desert that both sides believe belong to them and their flocks is the way to draw the border. Avidan Ofir, the Jewish father, claims they have come to stay for ever and maintains the Arabs are not connected to this, and lack spirituality. This is why the Jews will win, he claims, but in the end finds himself confessing he is no longer belongs there. Omar Abu Haram the Palestinian father does not say anything. He demands that his two wives and children work and live no matter how difficult or dan- gerous it is. The family reveals a tremendous hurt, but they remain together. Israeli Canadian Co Production, Mega fun production Montreal, supported by Channel 1- Israel, Kaan Israel, Gesher fund, Mifal Hapais. Diary of Brazilian - 2013 - Writer, Actor and Cinematographer An experimental documentary Film and Stage performance that tells 100 years of the Jewish males descendants of the Faingulernt family. It is the im- pressionistic journey of the director following the foot steps of his ancestors in Israel, Brazil and Ukraine after his father died in Israel at the kibbutz he helped to pioneer. Performed at the Performing Arts Festival with Israel Festival in Jerusalem, Cinema South Film Festival - Fringe War Matador - 2011 - Producer, Director, and Cinematographer A journal made on the border of Gaza during the winter of 2009 that portrays an intimate portrait of Israel in a time of crisis. It examines the weird phenom- enon of "war tourism” that flourished during that war on the Sderot-Gaza border, when people from all over the country swarmed in to observe the shelling of Gaza .We see the fissures in Israeli society that tie military strength with Messianic belief. War ecstasy and the euphoria of power accom- panying it are likened to the spectacle of the Corrida - the arena of a cruel struggle for life or death. Page 4 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae Supported by Channel 1 Israel Rabinovich fund, Gesherfund. Supported by Channel 1 Israel Rabinovich fund, Gesher fund. Awards and competition – Best Feature-Length Film Award: TRANZYT International Documentary Film Festival - Poland 2012. International Competition: TRT 2012 Documen- tary Awards - Turkey 2012. International Competition: DMZ Docs Korean Documentary F.F. - South Korea 2012. International Competition: DOK Leip- zig Documentary Film Festival - Germany 2011. International Competition: CWFF Cape Winelands Film Festival - South Africa 2012 ''Krakow Docu- mentary Premiere'': Krakow Film Festival - Poland 2012 Closing Film: LIDF London International Documentary Film Festival - U.K. 2012. ''Cinema from Israel'': DIFF Delhi International Film Festival - India 2012. ''New Israeli Cin- ema'' mini Film Festival, Phnom Penh - Cambodia 2012. ''State (T)error'': Mi- lano Film Festival - Italy 2012. VTIFF Vermont International Film Festival - USA 2012. SønDok (SunDoc) EDN international screening series, Copenha- gen - Denmark 2012. IFFB Israeli Independent Film Festival in Berlin - Ger- many 2012. Jewish Motifs International Film Festival - Poland 2012. Filmis- real! Film Festival - The Netherlands 2012. Jerusalem Film Festival - Is- rael 2011. Cinema South Festival - Israel 2011 Matador of War - installation – 2010 Producer, Director, and Cinematographer - Inspired by the film War Matador, a cinematic installation portraying a jour- ney along the Gaza-Israel border during Operation Cast Lead. The trave- logue sketches an intimate portrait of a vulnerable border area, introducing a profile of Israel in a time of crisis. A film is projected on three different screens that divide the action into something like bull fight arena, as the audi- ence observes the rising smoke over Gaza. Petach Tikva Museum and Tel Aviv University's gallery, Matador of Love - 2006 - Producer, Director and cinematographer Film and live dance collide on stage, with actor Alon Aboutbul and dancer Anat Shamgar. It portrays the journey of a woman in the Land of Israel, as she un- dergoes an intense complicated relationship with a man whom she desperately needs. The performance is a metaphor for the vicious and inescapable circle of the relations between the matador and the bull in the Spanish Corrida. Page 5 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae Cinema South festival, Khan Theatre in Jerusalem , Suzanne Dallal Centre in Tel Aviv. Men on the Edge – Fishermen’s Diary – 2005 - Producer, Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer - , A feature Documentary film portrays over a period of four years, an intimate diary of a group of fishermen: Palestinian refugees and Israeli settlers, tough men from two hostile nations, maintain a delicate and fragile coexistence. Produced in collaboration with the New Fund for Cinema and Television, and the Tel- evision and Radio Channel 2 Authority. Awards Cinema dos Mediterraneo – Portugal - 1st award at the Documentary compe- tition; International Prize for Mediterranean Documentary (with CMCA); Winning of the "RAI SAT CINEMA PREMIUM”; Le Jury de L’Imagimer, Fes- tival du Film Marin, Le Prix Planete Thalassa 2007 France. Reportage Sole e Luna DOC FEST-Italy-1st award of the Mediterranean Category; Festivals and Cinema Theaters - Visions Du reel – Nyon ; Cinemed - Montpellier , Medimed - Barcelona ; Doc- umenta - Madrid; Human Rights Watch IFF-NY 2006 ;Human Rights Watch IFF-London 2007; Sao Paulo international film festival-Brazil; Human Rights Watch IFF -Buenos Aires; États Généraux du Film documentaire-France; In- ternational Film Festival El ojo cojo-Spain; Recontres Internationales du Docu- mentaire de Montreal, Canada ; Opening film at the fifth Cinema South Film Festival; Mediterraneo Video Festival, September 2006 Italy; UK Jewish Film Festival - London; Israfest – L.A. USA. commercial screening at Lev cinema theatre - Tel Aviv; Israel’s cinemateques, Luxemburg garden cinema - Docu- mentary guild Paris Eva – 2002 - Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer A feature documentary film that tells the story of Eva, who in her Communist past, abandons her only daughter rather than betray the memory of her dead lover. She pays a heavy personal price for her actions. Co-production of “Orna Yarmouth Productions” of Channel 1 and “Gravity Post Production”. Screened in “Doc Aviv” in 2002, Cinema South Festival, Channel 1 and in cin- emateque’s and cinemas in the Balkan, won the Silver Olive prize in Montene- gro Film Festival 2003. Page 6 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae My Na’an – 2001 - Director and Cinematographer Produced within the framework of the “Place” project, this is a short experi- mental film that tells of an internal