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
Gali Luzon
Administrator of the School of Sound and Screen Arts at Sapir Academic College
Moshav Ohad
2022
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.