AMIT Atidim Or Akiva students are again on their way to the red carpet! A film made by the film and communications track students was selected for the international competition of student films, which will be held in Hollywood this month. This is the fifth year AMIT Atidim students will be participating in the international competition, where 85 films from around the world compete. The film, called “Black Screen”, is about a police officer who kidnaps the killer of his grandfather after the police close the investigation of the case. On the way to avenging his grandfather, he loses everything that is dear to him in life.
The film was produced by film students Mor Carmel, Doron Malka and Eliran Zanti, and some of the actors are AMIT Atidim teachers. In addition to the Hollywood competition, the film was selected as a finalist in the European student film competition in Spain and the Herzliya Film Festival for youth. AMIT Atidim film students have already won first place at the prestigious Hollywood competition twice and have won other prizes as well, at the Haifa Film Festival, the Doc Aviv Documentary Film Competition and others. The film track at Atidim serves about 150 students in grades ten through twelve. As part of their military service, many graduates of the program serve in the various film units of the IDF, and some even become film majors in college.
“Our participation as finalists in the competition reflects the seriousness of our students and their and desire for success, alongside the dedicated work of our teachers,” said Erez Me’uda, the AMIT Atidim film track coordinator.
“The dream of every filmmaker is to have his or her name displayed in Hollywood, and our students are doing that at an early age,” said Etti Laredo, principal of AMIT Atidim.
Link to the English subtitled film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx6EjFxCDdQ
