2. A SHORT FILM BY ELAD JOSEPH PRIMO
A day in the village,
Jacob, a single parent father, is trying to guard his chickens from being slaughtered in the coop.
Not realizing his tragic true will, to guard the coop like the existence he created for his daughter.
SYNOPSIS
3. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ELAD JOSEPH PRIMO
LEAD ACTORS ALBERT ILUZ, NOA OHAYON
SUPPORTING ACTOR DOR HARARI
CINEMATOGRAPHY SEGEV SHAW
LIGHTING YAIR FRIDMAN
RECORDING ORI CHECHICK
PRODUCTION DESIGNER INBALVOLPO, HILA HERTZOG
SOUND DESIGNER SHARON SHAMA
RECORDING ORI CHECHICK
EDITING NOFAR VOLPO
ORIGINAL SCORE ASHER GOLDSCHMIDT
COLOR GRADING TOMER BAHAT
PRODUCER HADAR BALAS
GENERAL INFORMATION
ISRAEL 2016 /LIVE ACTION /DRAMA / 25 MIN / COLOR / DCP / HEBREW
Aspect ratio: DCI FLAT. Sound: DOLDBY DIGITAL 5.1
MAIN CREDITS
4. Elad J Primo is a Tel-Aviv based filmmaker and writer.
Elad graduated film school with honors from the “Midrasha School of Arts - Beit Berl College”,
with “Domesticated Wolf” as his graduation film.
During his studies, Elad directed two more short films: Playground (2012) and Super Girls Last All Summer Long (2013).
His films won several awards and were screened at numerous film festivals worldwide.
These days Elad is developing the script for his first feature film, while also working on a short film he has written.
Domesticated Wolf | 25min, Israel, 2016
PlayGround | 10min, fiction, Israel, 2012
Super Girls Last All Summer Long | 9min, fiction, Israel, 2013
FILMOGRAPHY
ABOUTTHE FILMMAKER
5. Domesticated Wolf | 25min, 2016
Jerusalem International Film Festival
(Jul2016)
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PlayGround | 10min, fiction, 2012
*Special Prize of the Jury *
Festival de Cine Mediterráneo de Menorca
*Best activist film award*
Cinema Perpetuum Film Festival 2012
Emir Kusturica's Kustendorf | Munich Festival
of Film School | 30th Uppsala International
Short FilmFestival | Curta Cinema Film Festi-
val, Brazil | International Student Film Festival
in Tel - Aviv 2013 | 11th International Student
Film Festival Písek | Capital City Film Festival
2012 , Washington DC U.S. | 6th Golden
Anteaters, Lublin, POLAND | Tallgrass Film
Festival , USA | Short Film Festival Galilee
2012 | Europe quest Film Festival | Perpetu-
um Mobile film festival - | Festival de Cine
Mediterráneo de Menorca
Shnit International Shortfilmfestival 2011
LA BRIGADEDES IMAGES
VII Festival Alto Vicentino| KinofestFilFestival
|The 2nd International Motion Festival | FIL-
METS Badalona Film Festival | Tirana Interna-
tional Festival
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Super Girls Last All Summer Long |
9min, Israel, 2013
UTOPIAfest - The Tel-Aviv International Festi-
val | 30Tth Boston Sci- Fi |10th SFF- ATHENS
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
6. DIRECTOR STATEMENT
I came from a family of farmers, holocaust sur-
vivors from Europe who founded the village
which I grew up in Israel.
Grandfather was a poultry farmer and worked
inside the farm’s Chicken coop while my father
worked in the orchard, picking oranges and
tangerines. Next to us was my neighbor, who
tried to poison my dog once-or-twice. He had
so many disputes with my father over territory,
that even The UN were not able to help.
As we grew up in contemporary, explosive
Israel, my family became more right-wing.
The male machismo archetype was very dom-
inant in my life. As a child my father took me
and my sister to practice with his shotgun.
We shot mostly glass bottles and sometimes
brought home partridges. My father fought
in four Israeli wars so for him Israel was no
less then another child to protect. He once
told me that without Israel we will all lose our
relevance; that we will probably all be dead.
My father’s biggest expectation from me back
then was to become an IDF fighter. But, I was
different. As an introvert and highly sensitive
kid, I did not manage to fit into the Israeli
macho-warrior mould and during my adoles-
cence I started asking questions about the
society in which I grew up in. Jacob, the main
character of my film, symbolizes not only the
Idea of a father who is afraid to lose his rele-
vance as his daughter grows apart from him,
but also symbolizes the fears of the majority
of the Jewish Israeli society of losing their
relevance, as the young state evolves.
Due to old existential fears, the Jewish Israeli
society tries to guard and manage its rele-
vance at all cost, while its actions shape its
future and values, and like my main protago-
nist, making it blind to the dark consequences
of its actions. A nation which controls and
occupies another group of people in order
to preserve itself, must activate violence on
a daily basis and this violence penetrates all
the circles in the Israeli society: Into my main
character, into my father and our neighbors.
due to this insight, In the film, I have decided
to imply that not only Jacob, but all the male
characters in the film, including the dog, are
former Military fighters.
Jacob is a rancher with old world moral ethics.
He is conflicting with the ethics of the current
world.
He appreciates nature and can kill from this
same appreciation.
It was highly important for me as a visual artist
to portray a metaphysical connection between
nature and my protagonist, Jacob.
I’ve learned that by using static shots, with slow
and contemplative pace that forms a poetic
view to nature, I can achieve this goal.
Although the film is realistic, I did not want to
create a rough visual aesthetic to the world
in which Jacob lived. But rather to combine
the beauty and innocence of nature with the
primal and tragic violent nature of the charac-
ter - of man.
Due to his inability to cope with his only
daughter’s maturity and the fear that one day
he will lose his control over her, Jacob deals
with his emotions the only way he knows how,
by actions. He fights to protect the coop like
the existence he created for them,
only to later realize he will not be able to
guard it with blood.
8. SHORT FILMOGRAPHY
2014 Gett
2011 Edut
2011 Footnote
2008 Shiva
2006 Aviva,My Love
2003 Ha-Kochavim Shel Shlomi
Albert Iluz was born on January 17,1952
in Fes,Morocco.
He is an leading Israeli actor and writer.
He is known for Shiva (2008) ,
Footnote (2011) and Gett (2014).
Albert also took a great part on several
international feature films.
In 2009,Albert was nominated for best actor
on his role in Shiva at the Israeli academy award.
ALBERT ILUZ
9. Noa Ohayon was born on November 17,1999.
She is from a French - Moroccoien origin.
Noa is a young actress which never acted on
a film prior to this one.
In order to keep the authenticity of the role,
the crew decided that finding a real 16 years
old girl was needed.
After auditioning 143 young non-actor girls,
Noa came,and it was a perfect match.
Now days,noa considered to be a promising
young theater actress.
NOA OHAYON
10. Shai Blanc - Intl Relations
Beit Berl College Faculty of Arts - Film Dept
Doar Beit Berl 44905,Israel
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