Elefant is the director of the “Lethal Lesbian” film festival, head of the IWFTF, co-CEO of ‘Women in the Picture’ . She is dedicated to promote women in the Israeli film industry.
Director and scriptwriter, her first film Babaga (2012) participated in the official competition of the Cinéfondation Cannes Film Festival. Her fourth film, Revital is an Alien (2016) was nominated for best picture by the Israeli Academy Awards and is presenting at Utopia 2017.
Chairman of the Board, Elad Group, jury member on behalf of the Shlomo Tiran Foundation
Actress, Screenwriter, director, producer and script editor.
Writer and pop culture Junkie – Film and TV being her drugs of choice. Works for Time Out Tel Aviv, has a weekly film review column on Mako, and is a film critic on the cinema blog Fish Eye.
Co-Founder of Epic Pictures Group, a film production, financing and sales company and chairman of Dread Central Media, an online publisher and top destination for horror fans.
Coralie Fargeat is a director and writer, known for Reality+ (2014), Le télégramme (2003) and Revenge (2017).
For six years associated with the Orka Studio as head of CG, animation and VFX. He was VFX Supervisor for almost twenty motion pictures.
Kupermintz holds a BA in History and English. He’s always been passionate about science fiction, music and culture and has given talks on the Future of the State, urbanism and science fiction, and more.
Director and script writer, his Debut film Madame Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club was nominated for six Israeli Academy awards – the Ophir Awards – and won two prizes at the 2017 ceremony.
Shuv is the chief film critic at ‘Time Out Tel Aviv’. She graduated from NYU with a master’s degree in cinema studies and she teaches film courses at the Open University of Israel.
Managing editor of Dread Central and horror blogger for over eight years.
Her debut feature film JOE + BELLE was nominated for best picture at the Israeli Academy Awards. Kedar’s new film FAMILY premiered at the Jerusalem film festival (there it won Best Score) and screened at the Warsaw Film Festival and Talinn’s Black Nights.
Shai Scherf Director and cinematographer. While he is a documentarian at heart, in his works, he wanders the thin line between truth and fiction.
The co-directing team behind the 2017 Tribeca smash THE ENDLESS, the 2014 Toronto IFF favorite SPRING and the 2012 sleeper hit RESOLUTION, that premiered at Tribeca and took the festival circuit by storm.
Director, Writer, Co-founder of White Beach Productions, Israeli-based film production company dedicated to genre films.
A trusted authority on film sales & distribution and the programming & management of film festivals, TOM DAVIA is a seasoned veteran of the global entertainment industry. He runs Miami-based consulting outfit CINEMAVEN and is also an accomplished producer of genre & Iberoamerican cinema.
Audiovisual media innovation and policy strategist, audiovisual producer, and content & technology entrepreneur. He is the founder of Storytek Accelerator – mixing deep audiovisual sector knowledge, technology and funding with a selection of hand-picked tech entrepreneurs and content creators.