EXCLUSIVE: The Veterans is launching international sales on upcoming UK period comedy Fackham Hall at Toronto and has unveiled first members of the ensemble cast.
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EXCLUSIVE: Israeli sales house Go2Films has changed its international management team, as 13-year company veteran Hadar Taylor Schechter exits ahead of the Toronto and San Sebastián film festivals.
Nur Hadas has been upped from Sales Executive to Head of International Sales, with her promotion coming as Schechter, who was Head of International, leaves after joining back in 2010.
Tal Marom, formerly Head of the English News Desk at Haaretz newspaper and founder of the ‘Resistance Cinema’ series in Tel Aviv, has been named Community Outreach Executive, while Daniel Gat will take charge of the company’s work in International Film Festivals. Gat has been with Go2Films since 2022 and was previously Manager of the International Competition in the Tel Aviv International Students Film Festival.
“I would like to express my deep appreciation and gratitude to Hadar Taylor Shechter for her exceptional dedication and remarkable achievements during her 13 years with us,” said Hedva Goldschmidt, the Managing Director of Go2Films. “Hadar’s unwavering commitment to Go2Films has been instrumental in our growth and success. While she transitions into a new phase of her career, we are grateful that she will continue to guide us as a spiritual advisor, ensuring her invaluable influence remains an integral part of our company’s vision.
“Our unwavering commitment to supporting diverse voices and telling compelling stories remains at the forefront. With Nur Hadas leading the way, alongside Tal Marom and Daniel Gat, we are confident in our ability to deliver outstanding films to audiences worldwide.”
Go2Films represents films such as Henya Brodbeker and Kan11 documentary feature The Three of Us, about a couple who fight to integrate their
EXCLUSIVE: The Veterans is launching international sales on upcoming UK period comedy Fackham Hall at Toronto and has unveiled first members of the ensemble cast.
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Israel has defied the international film community by striking a filmmaking pact with Russia.
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Israel’s far-right national security minister lashed out at supermodel Bella Hadid on Friday for criticizing his recent fiery televised remarks about Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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Former Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre expects forward trio Antony, Jadon Sancho and Alejandro Garnacho to at least reach double figures this season.
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UK director James Marsh’s literary biopic Dance First, starring Gabriel Byrne as iconic Irish writer Samuel Beckett, will close the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival.
EXCLUSIVE: As Barbie approaches the end of a spectacularly successful first month in theaters, the Israel Film Festival has set one of the film’s great champions, Mattel Chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz, to receive its 2023 IFF Industry Leadership Award.
William Earl Variety has promoted Elsa Keslassy to Executive Editor of International, according to an announcement from Variety‘s co-editors-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh and Cynthia Littleton. In her new role, Keslassy will lead the magazine’s global team of award-winning correspondents, while helping guide its reporting at the leading international film and television festivals and markets.
revealed his stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis last November, saying he was initially diagnosed in 2015.Taylor said a scientist reached out to him with an offer of “a nuclear medicine” called Lutetium-177.The scientist told him that the medicine “is targeted, so it only sees cancer cells.”“It can’t see healthy cells,” Taylor told BBC News revealing he had his first round of the drug six weeks ago. “It kills stage four cancer in your bones.
Joshua Jackson and his wife, Jodie Turner-Smith. The couple — who married in December 2019 and welcomed their 3-year-old daughter, Janie, a year later — was snapped arm-in-arm on Thursday night as they left the Santa Monica Italian eatery Giorgio Baldi, a noted favorite among celebrities like Rihanna, Beyoncé and JAY-Z.