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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Sam Spiegel Film and Television School

Renen Schorr, founder of Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School died suddenly on February 26, 2025. (Credit Yossi Tzveker)
February 26, 2025, 11:12 pm
Director Renen Schorr, influential founder of Sam Spiegel Film School, dies at 72
After winning three Ophir awards for ‘Late Summer Blues,’ filmmaker wanted to make a change in Israeli film culture
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the Sam Spiegel film school in Jerusalem, October 27, 2022. (Photo by Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
December 5, 2024, 10:42 pm
Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film Lab launches 13th year
‘Pulp Fiction’ producer Lawrence Bender and filmmaker Joseph Cedar to teach master classes
By Jessica Steinberg
A photo from Tom Nesher's debut film, 'Come Closer' which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2024 (Courtesy)
May 14, 2024, 6:13 pm
Young Israeli filmmaker’s first feature chosen to compete at Tribeca Film Fest
‘Come Closer,’ debut work of Tom Nesher, daughter of Israeli director Avi Nesher, to feature at prestigious New York film festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Making movies at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School, which was included in top 15 global film schools by Hollywood Reporter in August 2023. (Courtesy: Yossi Zveker)
August 15, 2023, 7:38 pm
Sam Spiegel included in Hollywood Reporter top 15 film school list
Jerusalem school commended for new campus, preparatory program for Arabic speakers and Series Lab initiative
By Jessica Steinberg
File: Filming at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School, where a second round of the Series Lab with Netflix was launched in June 2023 (Courtesy Sam Spiegel)
June 13, 2023, 6:51 pm
Netflix, Jerusalem film school Sam Spiegel launch round two of Series Lab
Producers, screenwriters from streaming giant work with the film school on TV projects
By Jessica Steinberg
Sam Spiegel Lab director Mor Eldar (far left), director Avi Nesher, producer Marek Rozenbaum, director Orit Fouks Rotem and series creator Aleeza Chanowitz at the Sam Spiegel Film Lab 10th anniversary celebration, May 3, 2023 (Courtesy Sam Spiegel Film School)
May 4, 2023, 2:55 pm
Sam Spiegel film school incubator celebrates first decade
The Jerusalem film school lab marks 10 years of teaching budding filmmakers
By Jessica Steinberg
Aleeza Chanowitz is real, raunchy and fearless in 'Chanshi,' the new Hot series heading to 2023 Sundance (Courtesy Ohad Romano/HOT)
January 21, 2023, 10:42 am
Raunchy Israeli TV comedy ‘Chanshi’ heads to Sundance
Orthodox Judaism has a new kind of hero in Aleeza Chanowitz, co-creator and star of HOT’s show about a young woman from Brooklyn who moves to Israel to explore her sexual side
By Jessica Steinberg
Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich seen after coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 30, 2022. (Courtesy Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 1, 2022, 1:08 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 1: Netanyahu tries to rein in Smotrich; chess games reflect life
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn looks at coalition negotiations; investigative and features reporter Inna Lazareva discusses chess as metaphor for global issues
By ToI Staff
The new, $50 million Sam Spiegel building, part of the Jerusalem Arts Campus in downtown Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
November 29, 2022, 11:29 am
Film school’s second act gives starring role to new downtown Jerusalem arts campus
Sam Spiegel Film and TV School moves from industrial zone into new home on Jerusalem Campus for the Arts, a $50 million complex shared with academies for music, dance and acting
By Jessica Steinberg
The cast and crew of 'Cinema Sabaya' pose with their Ophir Awards after winning Best Picture and other prizes, September 18, 2022. (courtesy)
November 28, 2022, 3:58 pm
‘Cinema Sabaya’ director hopes to repeat film’s underdog success on road to Oscars
Orit Fouks Rotem never expected her film ‘Cinema Sabaya’ to sweep the Ophir Awards, but now finds herself seeking a chance to vie for Best Foreign Film at the 2023 Academy Awards
By Jessica Steinberg
Dana Blankstein-Cohen (left), director of Sam Spiegel Film and Television School with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos at the September 2022 awards ceremony of the Sam Spiegel Series Lab (Courtesy Shelly Simon)
September 28, 2022, 2:51 pm
Jerusalem film school lab project singles out 2 promising TV scripts
Scripts of legal dramas in Israeli court system and Arab LGBTQ families win prizes given in partnership with Netflix, Westend Studios and Paramount’s VIS Social Impact studio
By Jessica Steinberg
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos (left) with actress Shira Haas during a conversation at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television (Courtesy Sam Spiegel)
June 22, 2022, 3:03 pm
Netflix CEO tells Israeli students he’s looking for ‘local stories’
Streaming giant CEO Ted Sarandos visits Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, home to Netflix’s new Series Lab
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli and American TV creators from left, Noah Stollman, Dafna Levine, Ronit Weiss, Jill Condon and Hagai Levi, at the start of the Sam Spiegel Series Lab in June 2022 (Courtesy Sam Spiegel)
June 9, 2022, 2:28 am
Eight Israeli TV projects chosen for Netflix-backed Sam Spiegel ‘series lab’
Streaming giant will help writers develop stories of Israeli reality, with support from TV creators Hagai Levi, Jill Condon
By Jessica Steinberg
Actor Henry Winkler spoke at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel of Television and Film while in Israel in March 2022 to film his role as the father in HOT comedy series 'Chanshi,' created by Sam Spiegel graduates. (Courtesy: Sam Spiegel)
March 11, 2022, 11:59 am
Ayyy! The Fonz arrives in Israel, playing role of Jewish dad in HOT comedy ‘Chanshi’
Actor Henry Winkler speaks to students at Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, practices his ‘het’, shares memories and motivation
By Jessica Steinberg
The exterior of Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School, which will receive backing from Netflix for its series incubator. (Courtesy: Sam Spiegel)
February 8, 2022, 6:11 pm
Netflix backs Jerusalem film school’s new ‘Series Lab’ for young creatives
Streaming giant, along with ViacomCBS International Studios, aims to support development of Israeli creators’ authentic local stories
By Jessica Steinberg
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