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Ralph Benmergui: My Israel - Episode Five Trailer

May 6th, 2008

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Words from the Director of Ralph Benmergui:My Israel, Allan Novak

April 28th, 2008

Here’s some production info for those that are interested…
We shot this series over a thirteen-day period, twelve of those in Israel. We flew out on Christmas eve, December 24, 2007 as Ralph had to be back at his radio job two weeks later. We had a seasoned Canadian/Israeli crew was led by Martin Himel (possessor of great chutzpah and a good Rolodex). Our second camera was Ami Shamir (an artist at heart who appears in episode two) sound was shared between Daniel Tchelet and Noy Raz, both intelligent, talented and dedicated people. Rounding out the crew was Inna Shapiro our talented Israeli/Russian location producer and researcher and Sharon Nesher, our driver, who also appears in episode two. Sharon was a former elite soldier who made some unforgettable comments on camera. Karen Hawes was our anchor/supervising producer in Toronto assisted by Daniel Rattner our researcher/clearance person.

Editing was done by Charlotte Disher (episodes two and five), James Lim (episode three and four) and myself (episode one). I’ve been editing for years and still love to be hands on, particularly at the start of a series. Charlotte and James worked very hard and I thank them both for their unique personalities and talents. Animation was done by Ivan Verlaan of Visual Inclinations and Mandi Gorenstein and Darby McInnis were our hard working assistant editors.

I have to get back to finishing the theatrical version for the screening at the Jewish film Festival on Sunday May 4th, 6pm (at the Al Green Theatre). Please mark your calendars if you want to attend live (to see a highlights-filled 53 minute version) or to catch the full series May 5,6,7 at 9PM on VisionTV

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Ralph Benmergui: My Israel - Episode Two Teaser

April 24th, 2008

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Ralph Benmergui: My Israel - “It’s a Wrap!”

April 15th, 2008

We’ve just wrapped the fine cut of our fifth and final episode of ‘My Israel‘ and I have to say I’m going to miss it. I think we achieved a lot of what we set out to do in this series. In classic Jewish style I gave everybody a hard time and asked a lot of the questions I think people want asked.. So many open their hearts to us and we really couldn’t have done it without our Israeli team of Inna and Martin researching and shooting respectively.Now I’ll take excerpts around to groups, all Jewish so far and do some show and tell. I have tried to get to Arab Canadian groups interested but so far it’s a no go. Pity.

be well

rb

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