Israel.Halpern【以色列】

                                           Israel . Halpern【以色列】

Israel . Halpern 电影导演。出生于以色列的 Halpern 先生在以色列领先的报纸 Yediot Haront 担任了 5 年的摄影师，之后离开纽约市并在 CCNY 的 Piker Institute 学习电影。

1995 年，Halpern 先生的第一部短片 CHANGE a 30 min comedy 被选为代表 City Collage 参加格蕾丝王子奖。在与来自全国 230 所其他大学的代表的比赛中，Halpern 先生赢得了 1995 年的电影荣誉奖。这部电影在纽约当归电影中心和 WNYC 放映。

一年后，Halpern 先生在 NPTE（全国电视节目执行者协会）1996 年学生公共服务公告竞赛中获得第一名。

他的最终项目 RIVERSELL 获得了电视艺术与科学学院颁发的地区大学电视最佳戏剧奖，以及西德尼·迈耶斯纪念奖最佳剧本奖。

1998 年，Halpern 先生回到以色列，开始在以色列从事新闻、纪录片和电视工作，担任以色列电视台周五晚间新闻专题节目 YOMAN 节目（当时以色列最负盛名的电视节目，类似于在美国 60 分钟）。 1999 年，他转向游击纪录片电影制作，以独特且非常个人的风格指导、拍摄、编辑和制作自己的电影。

他的第一部纪录片《海滩上无罪的一天》是以色列有史以来在赎罪日期间拍摄的第一部纪录片——这是犹太信仰最神圣的日子。这部电影是一部头晕目眩、有点超现实的穿越无车特拉维夫的电影。这是一个试图表现出自由主义的城市的故事，但实际上却受到了主导以色列社会其他部分的种族主义和仇恨的感染。

Halpern 先生的第二部纪录片是 PSYCHEDELIC ZION。讲述了 Peace and Love Productions 的兴衰故事，这是一家由来自以色列北部加利尔地区城郊地区的 3 名年轻人领导的狂欢音乐组织活动公司。此后，它已成为以色列和世界各地年轻人的崇拜电影。在没有营销预算的情况下，这部电影是在以色列上映的第二成功的纪录片，仅在 2001 年就在以色列电视上播放了四次。 Psychedelic Zion 在纽约、洛杉矶、多伦多、圣彼得堡和谢菲尔德的国际电影节上进行了全场放映。这部电影还入围了 2000 年以色列奥斯卡金像奖。

他的最后一部纪录片开始于 2000 年 10 月，它已经在某个地方正式出版，说耶路撒冷以南的朱迪亚沙漠中只剩下一只豹子。同年 10 月，他承担了看似不可能完成的任务，拍摄了自 1995 年以来只出现过一次的无标记豹。导演带着一台小型 DV 摄像机，踏上了为期 24 个月的旅程难以捉摸的猫，其结果是电影《最后的犹太豹》，这是一部带有政治分测试的自然电影。这部电影在特拉维夫、海法、Rosh Pina 和 Sederot Cinemateques 以及以色列电视台和全球视野国际电影节上放映了四个月。

A native of Israel Mr. Halpern spent 5 years as a photographer for Israel leading newspaper Yediot Haharont, before leaving too NYC and studying film at the Piker Institute at CCNY.

In 1995 Mr. Halpern first short film CHANGE a 30 min comedy was chosen to represent City Collage at the Princes Grace Award. In that competition against representatives from 230 other colleges nation wide, Mr. Halpern won the 1995 Film Honorarium. This film was screened at the New York Angelica Film Center and WNYC.

A year later Mr. Halpern won the First Place at NPTE (National Association of Television Program Executives’) 1996 Student Public Service Announcements contest.

His final project RIVERSELL won regional college television award for Best Drama form the Academy of Television Arts and Science, as well as the Sidney Meyers Memorial Award for Best Screenplay.

In 1998 Mr. Halpern returned to Israel and started working in news, documentary film and television in Israel as a segment director for Israeli Television's Friday night news feature program, the YOMAN show (the most prestigious TV show in Israel at the time, something like 60 Minutes in the US). In 1999 he turned to guerilla documentary filmmaking where he direct, shot, edited and produced his own films in a unique and very personal style.

His first documentary A GUILT-FREE DAY AT THE BEACH is the first documentary ever to be shot in Israel during Yom Kippur - the holiest day of the Jewish faith. The movie is a light-headed, somewhat surreal walk through a car-free Tel-Aviv. It’s the story of a city that tries to act liberal but is in fact infected by the same racism and hate that dominates the rest of Israeli society.

Mr. Halpern’s second documentary was PSYCHEDELIC ZION. It’s the story of the rise and fall of Peace and Love Productions, a rave music organizing event company lead by 3 youngsters from the peri-urban areas of the Galil area in Northern Israel. It has since become a cult film for young people in Israel and around the world. With no marketing budgets the film was the second most successful documentary on theatrical releases in Israel and has been broadcast on Israeli television four times during the year 2001 alone. Psychedelic Zion had full house screenings at international festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, St Petersburg and Sheffield. The Film was also a finalist at the Israeli Academy Awards 2000.

His last documentary started in October 2000 it has been officially published somewhere that there is only one leopard left in the Judean desert south of Jerusalem. In October of that year he took upon himself the seemingly impossible task of filming the un-marked leopard that had been seen only once since 1995. Armed with a small DV camera, the filmmaker embarked upon a 24 -month journey in the footprints of the elusive cat the outcome of which is the film THE LAST LEOPARD OF JUDEA, a nature movie with a political subtest. The movie was shown for four months at the Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Rosh Pina and Sederot Cinemateques, as well as on Israeli TV and at the Global Visions International Film Festival.