Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School

Sam Spiegel International Film Lab to hold pitching event at Venice Film Festival

This is the first time since its establishment 13 years ago that Sam Spiegel's International Film Lab will hold its annual pitching event as part of the Venice Film Festival.

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Participants in the Sam Spiegel Film Lab, whose films will be at the pitching event at the Venice Film Festival.
THE SAM Spiegel Film and Television School.

Sam Speigel ranked again as one of world’s best international film schools by ‘Hollywood Reporter'

The Sam Spiegel Film School's graduates include many of Israel’s leading filmmakers, among them Nadav Lapid, Rama Burshtein, Nir Bergman, Talya Lavie, Noah Stollman, and Tom Shoval.

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RENEN SCHORR-HELLER

Israeli film pioneer and legend: Renen Schorr-Heller dies at 72

Schorr-Heller, who ran JSFS for 30 years, was a legend in the Israeli film world and raised the school to a level of excellence that was recognized around the world.

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LAWRENCE BENDER attends the 30th anniversary presentation of ‘Pulp Fiction’ last April in Hollywood.

‘Pulp Fiction’ producer Lawrence Bender to give master class at Sam Spiegel Film Lab

The lab, which is for filmmakers making their first or second films, admits several Israeli participants and several from abroad every year.

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Pride in film: Disney Israel, Jerusalem Open House collaborate on film screenings for pride month

Disney Israel teamed up with the Jerusalem’s Open House for Pride and Tolerance for a special event honoring Pride Month, hosted at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School.

JUNE 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
All of Us Strangers, one of the films screened as part of Disney Israel's and Jerusalem Open House's collaboration for pride month.

Top producer to explore creativity in third Sam Spiegel Series lab

Levine, who was formerly cohead of drama at HBO and oversaw Westworld, Sharp Objects, Game of Thrones, and True Blood, will give a special master class to the participants.

JUNE 4, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
MOR ELDAR (left), director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Series Labs, and Dana Blankstein Cohen, executive director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School.

This week in Jerusalem: Is this the last of The First Station?

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

AUGUST 18, 2023ByPEGGY CIDOR
A SCREENING ROOM at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem.

‘Hollywood Reporter’ ranks Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel in 15 top film schools

Sam Spiegel is considered Israel’s top film school and it has recently moved to a new campus in central Jerusalem, which provides a stimulating environment for its 180 students

AUGUST 15, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School

Sam Spiegel Series Lab 2nd edition comes to Jerusalem, continues Netflix collab

The Lab was established last year by the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School with the support of Netflix and with the artistic collaboration of Hagai Levi.

JUNE 18, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
DANA BLANKSTEIN COHEN: We didn’t stop for a minute. You can’t stop the creativity.

Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film Lab celebrates its first decade

The Lab celebration will feature 10 movies, one every year, made by graduates of the Film Lab and which give a good idea of the high level of success achieved by the Film Lab

MAY 3, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
LAB GRADUATES Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic (left) and Abner Benaim.

Grapevine October 30, 2022: A mega performing arts campus

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 30, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
ROM LEFT: Arieh Budnik and Daniel Farcas, both from Chile and who have children at Reichman University, along with head of the Raphael Recanati International School Jonathan Davis at the institution’s Orientation Day

Grapevine August 21, 2022: An embarrassing guest

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 21, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
FROM LEFT: co-producer Dan Joyce, director Celeste Geer and co-producer Gal Greenspan of ‘The Endangered Generation?’ which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival

Jerusalem Film Fest documentaries show real-life drama

The Diamond Competition for Israeli Documentary Films is particularly competitive this year, with movies that look at diverse aspects of life in Israel and Jewish history.

JULY 20, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
‘THE PARTISAN with a Leica Camera’

Spiegel school partners with Netflix on TV lab

The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film & Television School is partnering with Netflix to launch a television series lab that will provide support, mentoring and instruction for creators based in Israel.

FEBRUARY 8, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film Lab looks back on 10 triumphant years

“The success of the Lab, which brings together Israelis and filmmakers from around the world, shows how much Sam Spiegel has become a center for international filmmaking.”

OCTOBER 14, 2021ByHANNAH BROWN
FROM LEFT, Dana Blankstein Cohen, director of Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School; Netali Braun, winner of the Grand Prize at the lab pitching event this summer; and Aurit Zamir, director of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab.