(MENAFN - London Flair) Director Tomer Shushan is a writer and film director from Israel whose 2017 short film Inside Shells screened in FIPA, Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival and many others. White Eye is his second short, which went on to win the Oscar-qualifying Award at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival and 2020 Urbanworld Film Festival. Tomer is currently developing an Israeli TV series Torso and his first feature film Between The Sand Grains.
Co-Producer and Film Editor Shira Hochman has produced several short films including White Eye by Tomer Shushan, Horst by Miki Polonski, and My Little Evie by Hadar Morag. She is developing two feature films: Tomer Shushanâs Between The Sand Grains and Takotsubo by Miki Polonski. As an editor, Shira Hochman worked on a large number of short and feature films, leading her to be nominated for the Best Editing Award at the 2014 Israeli Academy Awards.
Also showing is
My Name Is Mudju, a short film by Bardi (Aboriginal) woman Chantelle Murray, based on true events depicting the Stolen Generation in 1950s Australia. Arahanga has been working in the film industry on and off for 16 years, Initially working in wardrobe and other roles on films, including Taika Waititi’s first two films, before spending five years studying towards Bachelor of Health Science. Since 2016, she has written and directed three films, beginning with the self-written
Laundry. A character-driven, joyful comedy about a happily married but frustrated woman struggling to find intimacy due to the demands of raising a family, the film made it into NZIFF Best Shorts and Show Me Shorts 2017, where it was nominated for four awards, including best screenplay, director and film.
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