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Ilan Moskovitch (Hebrew: אילן מוסקוביץ'; born August 3, 1966), is an Israeli filmmaker, producer, director, casting director and acting instructor.
Biography
Ilan Moskovitch was born and raised in Acre, Israel, second generation to immigrants from Romania, holocaust survivors. His father, Meir, owned a kiosk in ancient Acre, near the Arabic cinema "Bustan", and his mother, Anna, worked as a hospital nurse. Moskovitch is a graduate of the cinema department of "Camera Obscura – School of Art" (1992). In the year after his graduation, he worked as a production coordinator and manager for various TV projects, working with the directors Dan Wolman, Ze'ev Revach, and others.
In 1995 he met the international Israeli director Amos Gitai. Moskovitch worked as his assistant in the movie "Dvarim," and since then the two cooperated in more than twenty-five movies, many of which were feature films for cinema, including "Free Zone", "Promised Land", "Alila", "Carmel", "Kadosh", "Disengagement", "Kippur", "Eden", "Kedma", "Yom Yom"
Four of those films: "Kadosh (1999), "Kippur" (2000), Kedma" (2002) and "Free Zone" (2005), participated in the Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival (in which Moskovitch was the artistic consultant and the casting director). Moskovitch was the casting director in the film "Free Zone" in which Hana Laszlo won the Best Actress Prize in 2005 at the Cannes Film Festival, for her role in the film.
Moskovitch produced documentary films with Gitai, among them "Tapuz", "The Arena of Murder", "Golan Diary", "Milim" and a video installation entitled "The Public Residence of The Fifties", which was shown at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod and at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya.
Besides his work with Amos Gitai, he established in 1997 the production company "Cinemax" along with director David Noy; he produced the films "Peach", "What Now?", and "Arlekino Behind The Masks". In 2001 he produced commercials and communication videos with the journalist David Gilboa, for the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection, United Jewish Appeal, Shahal, Bank Hapoalim and Ford Motor Company.
In 2003, he established "Impro" – Acting Studio for Cinema and TV with his partner, theater director Avi Malka. In 2008 he produced the feature film "Who kidnapped Moshe Ivgy?", directed by Avi Malka. This is the first full-length feature film produced by an acting school in Israel, in which all the major and lead roles were acted by third year graduates.
In 2009 he produced the documentary film "The Ambassadors", directed by Tal Agassi for Israel Channel 8. Together with Eran Paz he produced the documentary film "Jeremiah", directed by Eran Paz. The movie won the Best Director Prize Award for Documentary Film in the Jerusalem Film Festival 2010.
In 2013, together with Dan Bronfeld, Moskovitch directed and produced for Channel 8 a documentary film entitled "Appolonian Story". The film is about a man who built his home in a cave and lived there for forty years. The film participated in film festivals around the world, including AFI Docs, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, and Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
In the same year, he worked on Giati's film "Ana Arabia," in which he served as the casting director. The film participated in the main competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. It's 81 minutes long filmed in a one shot. The actors include Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Sarah Adler, Assi Levy, Uri Gavriel, Shadi Srour, and Norman Issa.
In 2015, he was the casting director and the artistic consultant for Amos Gitai's feature film "Rabin, the Last Day," about Shamgar Commission, which investigated the circumstances leading to the assassination of Israeli's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, twenty years ago. The film participated at the Venice Film Festival - Official Competition 2015 as well as the Toronto International Film Festival, 2015.
In 2017, he worked as a producer on the film "Holy Air," with director Shadi Srour. The film participated in the official competition in the Tribeca Film Festival, participated in the Palm Springs International Film Festival and won FIPRESCI Prize as best debut in the national competition of the Jerusalem Film Festival of 2017. It was acquired for distribution in North America by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Srour and Laetitia Eido played the main roles.
In 2018, he was the casting director of the movie "A Tramway in Jerusalem" directed by Amos Gitai. The film participated in the Venice Film Festival. In 2020, he was the casting director of Gitai's movie "Laila in Haifa." The plot transpires through a night in nightclub in Haifa. The film participated in the competition at the Venice Film Festival. In 2024, he was one of the producers of Gitai's movie "Shikun," an Israel-Frence-Swiss-Brazil-United Kingdom co-production starring Irène Jacob. The film participates in the Berlin International Film Festival.
Moskovitch has worked with well-known Israeli film actors, among them: Moni Moshonov,Yael Abecassis,Hana Laszlo,Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Keren Mor, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Juliano Mer-Khamis,Ronit Elkabetz, Assi Dayan, Lea Koenig, Samuel Calderon, Liron Levo, Uri Klauzner,Amos Lavi.
Moskovitch has also worked with international film actors such as: Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Binoche,Natalie Portman, Carmen Maura (Almodovar Films),Samantha Morton,Anne Parillaud (La Femme Nikita), Hanna Schygulla, Rosamund Pike.
Filmography
References
External links
Moskovitch Official site
"Apollonian Story" official site
Ilan Moskovitch at IMDb
Moscovitch in Cinemotions
(June 10, 2014). "Questions and answers with Ilan Moskovitch". American Film Institute.
About the movie "Apollonian Story":
"Apollonian Story" at the AFI Docs
"Apollonian Story" at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Doyle, Ronan (April 2, 2014). "Full Frame: Apollonian Story Review" at the Next Projection.
About the movie "Holy Air":
(November 16, 2017). Interview: ‘Holy Air’ is comedic commentary set in Nazareth. Hollywood soapbox.
