משתמש:Noa holtz/Amir Har-Gil
General
עריכהDr. Amir Har-Gil (born in 1957) is an Israeli film director whose documentary films won international recognition. Har-Gil is Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, Netanya Academic College, at the Haifa University and Tel-Aviv University. Since 1990 he is a member of Kibbutz Yaqum. Har-Gil is married and has 3 children. Har-Gil is the son of Maariv journalist and author Shraga Har-Gil and grandson of journalist Dr. Elhanan Horowitz
Biograpy
עריכהHar-Gil was born in Tel-Aviv, attended the Beit Hinuch A.D. Gordon high-school and was an active member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement; he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Samar in Arava region, was a paratrooper in Hativat Hanahal, studied at the Midrasha Art Teachers' Training College in Ramat HaSharon and at the Beit Zvi School of the Performing Arts in Ramat-Gan. He graduated cum laude in Ramat-Gan and the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Thyne, UK (Ph.D., 1988). Har-Gil's films deal with Israeli society and its' various components, among others the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His film "Entangled" (2011) is an Israeli-Palestinian coproduction dealing with the conflict looking at both sides of the divide. The film was a breakthrough in creativity and production for Israelis and Palestinians. His early "Land of Milk and Honey" (1985) opened the Jerusalem Film Festivan and it was scrrened for many months at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. See below links to Y-net and TV interviews.
Selection of works
עריכה• The film "Good Morning Israel" (1986) – the complexity of Israeli society is shown through comparing one morning in the lives of five youngsters: one from a kibbutz, one orthodox, a boy from a development town, an Arab boy and a boy from the well-to-do Northern area of Tel-Aviv. The film was awarded first prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival, praised by the Israel Film Institute and was used by the Ministry of Education, by IDF (Israel Defense Forces), by the Jewish Agency and youth movements for opening discussions. • The film "Line Up" (2000) – the microcosm of the Palestinian problem is shown through a peek at the backyard of the Israeli establishment and its' attitude towards the Palestinian minority. By hidden documentation and other means the film shows the Kafkaesque reality Palestinian inhabitants of East Jerusalem have to cope with lining up daily at the gates of the Ministry of the Interior in their city. The film was produced in the framework of a series on civil rights in Israel and focused on the problematic attitude of Israeli authorities towards the Palestinian inhabitants of East Jerusalem. The film instigated a debate in the Knesset (Parliament) and is shown as a testimony as to the dire condition of Arabs in East Jerusalem. The film was awarded first prize at the Docu-Noga Festival.
• "Eve" (2001) deals with poverty in Israel, focusing on a single-parent family living under the poverty-line in Hatikva neighborhood. The film was chosen by the Ministry of Education as part of the junior high-school curriculum.
• "Good Morning Israel" (2007) over 20 years later Har-Gil engaged in a follow-up journey on the heroes he filmed back then.
• "The Art of Living" is a personal film Har-Gil created about his father in which he focused on his father whose life epitomizes the vicissitudes of fate of an immigrant from Germany during the Nazi period. The film received the "Audience Choice Award" at the Real to Reel" Festival in the USA and was nominated as best documentary at the Ofir Award.
Har-Gil directed image profile films and worked as a reporter for Public Channel 1, for "Second Glance" and many other programs and reportages for educational television. At the beginning of his career, Har-Gil worked as a reporter for economic supplements of daily newspapers.