EXCLUSIVE: Succession actor Ashley Zukerman is amongst forged of latest characteristic Track Of Songs, which might be exec-produced by Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur.
The Anita Lester-directed id drama, developed by Display Australia and bought by LevelK, is considered one of three improvement initiatives being backed by a brand new fund for Jewish Australian options, launched by producer Jamie Bialkower of Bounce Road Movies.
A second mission, known as Shoshanna, will star Israeli actors Yael Abecassis and Shlomi Elkabetz, and is being bought by M-Attraction. Scroll down for particulars on funded initiatives.
The privately supported fund will go in the direction of tales that advance the depiction of Jewish Australians on display screen, by Jewish Australian creatives, with emphasis on authenticity and visibility, explains Bialkower. Monetary phrases of the backing was not revealed.
The producer says the fund is required attributable to a “lack of Jewish narratives being financed in Australia, the shortage of help that Jewish artists are receiving at structural and institutional ranges, and to counter antisemitism by illustration of Jewish tales on display screen”.
Bounce Road Movies is looking for entries from each rising and established creators and expects the funding capability to develop in coming months. Bialkower additionally desires to supply alternatives for Jewish Australian crew in any respect ranges of manufacturing.
Bounce Road Movies is coming off a co-theatrical launch in Australia and New Zealand of Anthony Hopkins drama Freud’s Final Session with Sharmill Movies. The movie has taken AU $850,000 on the native field workplace thus far.
The corporate says it’s also dedicated to offering extra alternatives for feminine administrators. Along with Lester, Bialkower is presently in improvement on characteristic movies with administrators Miranda Nation, Neasa Hardiman and Romi Trower.
The corporate’s new fund will initially help the next three initiatives:
SONG OF SONGS
Over the seven days of mourning following her grandmother’s demise, Miriam types a forbidden reference to a younger Rabbi that units in movement the unravelling of a fancy household reckoning with their identities. The debut characteristic from acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Anita Lester has been developed with help from Display Australia, with LevelK on board for worldwide gross sales. Ashley Zukerman is ready to star amongst an all-Jewish forged, with Shekhar Kapur as government producer.
SHOSHANNA
Hasidic girl grapples with a burgeoning want for the lady she hires to assist take care of her ailing husband in Justin Olstein’s debut characteristic. Winner of the Australian Writers’ Guild Monte Miller Award for Finest Function Screenplay and shortlisted for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, Israeli actors Yael Abecassis and Shlomi Elkabetz are connected to star and Elkabetz will co-produce alongside Galit Cahlon and lead producer Clea Frost. M-Attraction have boarded for worldwide gross sales.
THE WHITE PIGEON
Anita Lester’s second characteristic follows Australian painter Lola Cohen, whose controversial exhibition leads her to simply accept an invite to spend a month in Israel’s Golan Heights with famend American Jewish artist Ivan Moshinsky. As Lola enters the orbit of her invisible mentor, the arrival of Ivan’s son Rene sparks an unlikely love triangle, resulting in a poignant exploration of opportunism, battle and unattainable love, underscored by the enduring energy of artwork. The movie will shoot between Australia and Israel.
