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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

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 INBAL VOLPO, 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 / HEBREWAspect ratio: DCI FLAT. Sound: DOLDBY DIGITAL 5.1

MAIN CREDITS

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

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

STARRING ALBERT ILUZ | NOA OHAYON | DOR HARARI

PRODUCER HADAR BALAS CINEMATOGRAPHER SEGEV SHAW FILM EDITOR NOFAR VOLPO ORIGINAL SCORE ASHER GOLDSCHMIDT SOUND DESIGNER SHARON SHAMA POSTER ARTWORK PETER STRAIN

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY ELAD J. PRIMO

Domesticated Wolf | 25min, 2016Jerusalem 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 IMAGESVII 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

DIRECTOR STATEMENTI 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.

LEAD ACTORS

SHORT FILMOGRAPHY2014 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 actoron his role in Shiva at the Israeli academy award.

ALBERT ILUZ

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

Shai Blanc - Intl RelationsBeit Berl College Faculty of Arts - Film DeptDoar Beit Berl 44905, IsraelT: 972-9-7478737F: 972-9-7478735M: 972-54-5833653festivals@beitberl.ac.il