Our Teachers - Ha'Aruga
Boaz Debby
Teaching: Screenwriting
Program Director. Playwright, screenwriter, and theater and film director. Graduate of Sam Spiegel Film School and the Theater Directing and Education Department at Kibbutzim College.
Notable Projects:
Two-time first prize winner at the Acre Festival
"Beehives" - Director and screenwriter (International co-production)
"My Father is a Bird" - Director and screenwriter, winner at Fantastic Fest
Benjamin Freidenberg
Teaching: Directing
Director, screenwriter, and film researcher. Graduate with highest honors from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. Lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design's Screen Arts Department and program director at Sam Spiegel. His films have been screened at MoMA, Locarno Film Festival, and the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Notable Projects:
"Karl Marx. The Activist" - Feature-length documentary (2023)
"Ethiopia Street" - Short documentary
"Guided Tour" - Award-winning short film
Evgeny Gusyatinskiy
Teaching: World Cinema and Film Aesthetics
Programmer and selection committee member at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), one of the world's key film festivals. Lecturer, film critic and curator. At IFFR, he is responsible for programming feature films from Eastern Europe, Russia, Israel and Greece.
Yaeli Feldman
Teaching: Screenwriting
Screenwriter, graduate of Sam Spiegel Film School's screenwriting program. Co-creator of successful television series.
Notable Projects:
"Borderline Women" - Co-creator and head writer
"I Killed Guy Rubin" - Screenwriter
Participant in the Series Mania Festival residency program, France
Zvi Landsman
Teaching: Cinematography
Zvi Landsman graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem with honors. His film "THE THERAPY" about gay conversion therapy, received the Sundance institute production grant and the jury award at DocAviv. His short "AFTER ALL" received honorable mentions in Tel Aviv and Munich student film festivals and accumulated over 30 million YouTube views. He is the cinematographer of the Oscar shortlisted film "THE MUTE'S HOUSE."
Daniella Nowitz
Teaching: Cinematography
Israeli-American cinematographer working internationally. First woman to win the Israeli Academy Award (Ophir) for cinematography. Graduate of the American Film Institute. Experience shooting narrative features and television across four continents and fluent in five languages.
Notable Projects:
"Asia" - Feature film, Best Cinematography at Tribeca Film Festival and Israeli Academy Award (2020)
"Carthago" - TV series, Israeli Television Academy Award for Best Cinematography (2023)
"Bad Boy" - TV series, premiered at Toronto Film Festival (2023)
Miki Kohn Barlev
Teaching: Editing
Editor and director, graduate with honors from Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. Faculty member at Sam Spiegel and Ma'aleh Film Schools.
Notable Projects:
"The Other Person" (2024)
"The Activist" (2024)
"MAKINGOFF" (Fiction, 2021)
Nohar Avigail Haseen
Teaching: Editing
Film and television editor. Holds BA and MA degrees in Film and Television from Tel Aviv University. Ophir Award winner.
Notable Projects:
"Tehran"
"The Commander" - Ophir Award for editing
"Kupa Rashit"
