The Partners

The Negev College

The Negev College, which has been conducting film studies and filmmaking for over 20 years. The School of Sound and Screen Arts at the Negev College, a partner of the Fund, is an institution with many years of experience that covers all areas of cinema. As part of its activities, about 400 films a year are produced, by students and graduates. The artists come mostly from the Negev and the south and many of them stay to live, create and work in the area. The films are screened at the best film festivals in the world and many of them have won many awards and accolades.

The Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

The Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, which supports and encourages multicultural cinematic creation, was established out of a belief in the power of films to bring about change, remember forgotten cultures, and stimulate honest dialogue about identity, values, acquaintance with the other, and fair and respectful cultural and social discourse. The Gesher Fund specializes and devotes most of its budgets and resources to the advancement of the periphery, including the geographical periphery of the south, and is a key partner in the cinematic activities that have taken place in the Negev for many years.

Western Negev Cluster

The Western Negev Cluster is an association of towns with a partnership of ten authorities in the Western Negev. As part of a broad program for the economic and social development of the region, the cluster promotes a media industry that will make the western Negev region a focus of diverse and rich creation by strengthening the identity, heritage, and culture of the various communities therein. This development will lead to business, cultural, educational, and artistic activity in the field.

Ministry of Culture

The Fund is supported by the Film Council of the Ministry of Culture, as part of their financial support for 2019 – support for institutions that assist in the production of films that take place mainly in areas outside of Central Israel in the geographical and socio-economic periphery.

The Incumbents

Prof. Sami Shalom Chetrit

Chairman of the Board of the Southern Negev Film Fund

Ziv Naveh

Founding member of the Fund and CEO of the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

Lior Oron

Director and Artistic Director

Oren Reich

Production and Logistics Coordinator

Members of the Board of Directors

Prof. Sami Shalom Chetrit

Chairman of the Board of the Southern Negev Film Fund and Head of the School of Sound and Screen Arts at Sapir Academic College

Sderot

2020

Ziv Naveh

Founding member of the Fund and CEO of the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

Jerusalem

2020

Beni Cohen

Director of the Sderot Cinematheque

Sderot

2020

Michal Lavie

Artistic Director Southern Film Festival

Kibbutz Mefalsim

2020

Guy Ofran

Chief Lector at the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

Moshav Tzofer

2020

A joint film project for the Pinchas Sapir College of the Negev

And the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund

With the support of the Film Council and the Ministry of Culture.