Biography Since 1986 Active Filmmaker and Film Scholar. Fiction Films 2012 – Present Continuous (Ha'Chaim Beinataim), 100 min., DCP, color. Director, producer, co-writer, Full length feature. Supported by The Israeli Film Fund. 1999 - Last Resort (Hagarin Hakashe), 95 min., 35 mm, color. Director, producer, co-writer, full-length feature film. 1993 - Blind Man's Bluff (Golem Bamaagal), 95 min., 35 mm, color. Director, co-producer, co-writer, full-length feature film, supported by The Israeli Quality Film Foundation, The Ministry of Education & Culture. 1990 - Front Window, 32 min., 16 mm, color. Director/writer/producer. Supported by The Israel Film Center, Ministry of Industry & Trade and the Public Council for Culture & Art of the Ministry of Education & Culture. 1984 - 24 Hours, 37 min., 16 mm, color. Director/writer/producer/editor. Thesis film for graduating NYU GFTV. Documentaries 1998-2009 – One Eye Wide Open: following Zvi Lachman 1998-2008, 52 min.
Awards & Festivals 2012 The 28th Haifa International Film Festival: Present Continuous. 2012 Cinema South Film Festival, Sderot: Present Continuous. 2010 TEMPS D'IMAGES PRÉMIO DE CINEMA International Film Festival, Lisbon, 2010 Special Mention in ''I've Seen Films'' International Film Festival, Milan, Italy, One Eye Wide Open. 2009 EPOS Film Art Fest, international Art Film Festival, Tel-Aviv, One Eye Wide Open. 2009 EPOS Film Art Fest, international Art Film Festival, Nazareth, One Eye Wide Open. 2009 Cinema South Film Festival, Sderot, One Eye Wide Open. 2003 The International Film Festival Tribeca, New-York: Moscobia – the Russian Compound. 2002 The International Documentary Film Festival, DocAviv Tel-Aviv, Israel: Moscobia – the Russian Compound. 2001 Fipa: Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, Biaritz, France: Ransom of the Father. 2000 Honorably Mentioned in The Jewish Experience Competition of the 17th Jerusalem International Film Festival: Ransom of the Father.
2002 The Contra Costa International Jewish Film Festival: Last Resort. 2001 The Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Washington: Last Resort. 2001 Fipa: Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, Biaritz, France: Last Resort. 2000 The Washington D.C. Jewish Film Festival: Last Resort. 1999 The 15th International Haifa Film Festival: Last Resort. 2009 The Best of Israeli Cinema of all times, in Milan, Italy: Blind Man's Bluff. 1995 The International Film Festival in Calcutta, India: Blind Man's Bluff. 1995 The International Film Festival in Kerala, India: Blind Man's Bluff. 1994 La Opera Prima, First prize for first film in the 12th Festival Cinematografico International del Uruguay, Montevideo for Blind Man's Bluff. 1994 Jaguar Maya De Oro, Special prize of the jury in the 3rd Festival Cinematografico De Cancun, Mexico, for Blind Man's Bluff. 1994 The Israeli Critics Award for Best Acting: Chagit Dasberg in: Blind Man's Bluff – The 10th International Haifa Film Festival. 1994 Show case for Best Israeli Films in Tokyo, Japan: Blind Man's Bluff . 1994 The International Film Festival, San Paulo, Brazil: Blind Man's Bluff. 1994 The Jewish Film Festival in London, England: Blind Man's Bluff. 1994 The International Troya Film Festival, Portugal: Blind Man's Bluff. 1994 The Eighth Annual Washington, DC International Film Festival: "Blind Man's Bluff". 1993 The Wolgin award for Israeli best film: Blind Man's Bluff. First prize of the 10th Jerusalem Film Festival. 1993 The 17th Montreal World Film Festival: Blind Man's Bluff. 1993 The 41St International Film Festival of San Sebastian: Blind Man's Bluff. 1993 The Antigone D'Or, First prize of the 15eme Festival International Du Cinema Mediterraneen Montpellier for Blind Man's Bluff. 1993 The Israeli Film Festival in Los Angeles: Blind Man's Bluff. 1993 The Israeli Film Festival in New-York: Blind Man's Bluff. 1993 The Jewish Film Festival, Wien, Austria: Blind Man's Bluff. 1993 The Israeli Academy Award for Best Actress: Chagit Dasberg in: Blind Man's Bluff. 1995 The 11th International Haifa Film Festival: On My Way To Father’s Land.
Selected Publications Books François Truffaut – The Man Who Loved Films, 2006, Hakibutz Hameuahad, Tel-Aviv University and Sapir Academic College Publication, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Enchanted Screen: A chronology of media & language, 1986, The Open University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Selected Articles Chaplin's contribution to the development of sound and its relationship to image, as part of his cinematic statement on the transition from silent films to talking pictures (upcoming in The Chaplin Collections, Literature/Film quarterly (LFQ),). Charles Chaplin sings silent requiem: Chaplin's cinema from 1928-1952 as a cinematic statement on the transition from silent films to talking films, History & Theory, Protocols, No 22 – On the Sensual in Art, History & Theory department, Bezalel,(22), 2011, http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/en/1315639275 Cinema – Literature – Sculpture and What's Between Them - François Truffaut's Films as Intertextual Cultural Space, History & Theory, Protocols, History & Theory department, Bezalel (20), 2011, http://bezalel.secured.co.il:80/zope/home/he/1301858337. Co-author: Achinoam Berger. Humor, Actuality and Cinema, Mareh (Image/mirror) (5), 2010: 107-112. Law, Ethics and Reflexivity in Krzysztof Kieslowśki's Decalogue, 2009, http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/optek/issei/section4/Session_67_Preminger/67_Preminger.pdf Late Insight: Ideological and multicultural conflict in Late Marriage, Sociological issues in Israel (7), Winter 2009, University Center in Ariel, Israel, 2009: 214-243. Co-author: Matan Aharoni. Documentation, Myth and Fiction in sixty years of Israeli Cinema, Cinema South festival 2008, Pardes Publication & Sapir Academic College, Sderot, 2008: 69-80. Inter-textual reading of David Wallach's My Father My Lord, Cinema South festival 2008, Pardes Publication & Sapir Academic College, Sderot, 2008: 81-86. François Truffaut Rewrites Alfred Hitchcock: A Pygmalion Trilogy, Literature/Film quarterly (LFQ), July, (35:3), 2007: 170-180. Uri Zohar - The Bastard and the King of Israeli Cinema, Cinema South festival 2007, Pardes Publication & Sapir Academic College, Sderot, 2007: 156-161. Media and Communication Lexicon, Writters/editors: Limor, Y., Adoni, C., Mann. R., Yediot Achronot Books and Chemed Books, Tel-Aviv, 2007. Cinema consultant and writer. Preminger, A., 2005, 100 years of Zionism-100 years of Cinema in Israel, catalogue of "Die Neuen Hebräer, 100 Jahre Kunst in Israel", p. 524-531, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. Cinema explores law and ethics in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, Shaar Ruach- Journal of Culture Art & Thoughts ( 1) Spring, Sapir Academic College, Sderot, 2005. The Human Comedy of Antoine Doinel: From Honoré de Balzac to François Truffaut, The European Legacy: Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas: (ISSEI) (9:2), 2004: 173-193. For more information: http://anerpreminger.com |