News & Updates: 33rd Israel Film Festival Opening Night
THE 33rd ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL in Los Angeles Opening Night Gala for the first time completely sold-out a week in advance to a capacity crowd of over 900 guests at last night’s opening at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. The packed audience greeted the evening’s host, Israel Film Festival Founder/Executive Director Meir Fenigstein, with a standing ovation in recognition of his outstanding leadership of the Festival for over three decades.
Standing ovations continued as six-time Academy Award-winning producer Arthur Cohn received the 2019 IFF Lifetime Achievement Award from actress Rosanna Arquette and when WestEnd Film Chair and producer Sharon Harel-Cohen was presented with the 2019 IFF Achievement in Film Award by Avi Lerner, Chairman/CEO, Millennium Media. After the introduction of 25 of today’s leading Israeli filmmakers and talent who have films playing in the Festival which runs through November 26th, the Festival bowed with the U.S. Premiere of renowned director Yaron Zilberman’s Incitement, winner of the Ophir Award for Israel’s Best Feature Film in 2019 and Israel’s Official Selection to the 2019 Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.
