Category: About Us

Ari Edelman has worked as a writer, editor, camera man and director.  He spent half of a year working for Chaos films in 2013, mostly as a camera man and web designer; though he also wrote grant proposals, treatments, edited footage, and researched documentary projects.  In 2009, he directed his first film, a forty minute short called The Sinistra, which won the ACTA Award for Best Film of that year.  Born in California, he had a double major in film and sociology at California State University Long Beach.  In 2012, he moved to Germany to study in Hamburg for 6 months and completed a 3 month long mini television projects at Studio Hamburg in the sound and cinema departments.  He is currently moving back to California to pursue a career in film there although he plans to make aliyah within two to three years time.

Ilyssa Peltz attends Bowling Green State University.  Studying film production and telecommunications, she will be a senior in the fall. Her interest in film started a young age.  As a kid she would put together short movies with her friends.  While is school became very active in the schools cinema club.  She currently holds a leadership position for the club.  Ilyssa has also won first place in her schools forty-eight hour film festivals.   Ilyssa has worked on many different types of films and in different environments.  These included student and professional environments.  She has experience in all parts of the field.  Her focuses include directing, editing, and production work.  She has a wide range of talents that she has acquired from working on all kinds of sets. She just recently joined Chaos Films in summer 2013.  She is very excited to have this opportunity and to see what the future holds for her.

 

Born and raised in Montreal, Milène joined the Chaos family in May 2013. She is a true jack of all trades; as a video editor, translator, writer, music consultant, camera operator and production assistant, she also helps prepare grant applications and presentations. With a double diploma in Jazz Voice and Social Science under her belt, she became interested in documentaries after composing a soundtrack for a friend in Film Production. Upon graduation from Cégep Saint-Laurent, she went to Corsica where she filmed her first short documentary entitled U Core Dia Corsica, exploring the socio-economic effects of eco-tourism in rural mountain hamlets. After a sabbatical year backpacking in South East Asia, Milène is currently studying Video Journalism at Concordia University. Fluent in French and English, Milène is also an avid traveller and cook, eager to discover what lies beyond the ordinary.

Lee Eigner was born in Brooklyn and lived in Denver during his high school career. He is a senior at the University of Missouri, and has a double major in Film Studies and Mass Media Communication. He has written, directed and edited a 30 minute television program in the NBC affiliate TV station in Columbia Missouri. He also was recently involved in the production of the short film “Room Mom”, in which he was the Assistant Director and a Script writer.  He joined Chaos Films in early June of 2013. He conducts research into different grant options to fund the plethora of productions of Chaos films. He has also organized productions for Chaos Films, including a recent guerilla film project on graffiti in Tel Aviv.

Former fashion photographer Gili Chen has developed a photographic method that incorporates an aesthetic and holistic view of the body. Creating a dialogue enabling release, acceptance and self-love, Gili believes that the longing to accept and love our bodies is shared by most women worldwide.  “Many women think: If it weren’t for this scar, I’d be really pretty … I just have to lose 10 kg to be happy. And so our body is seldom ever really loved.” (Gili Chen). Gili Chen Website: http://www.gilichen.com/

Jacques Bacry is a producer and writer based in Paris and Tel Aviv. After earning a DEA in psychology and ethnology from the University of Sorbonne, he went on to work in advertising as a producer of commercials. He now specializes in production of shorts, 3D and feature films. He collaborated with Director Michel Drach on the film “Guy de Maupassant” (1982), and has written and co-written numerous screenplays including: “Of Jabberwok”, “Like my Mother”, “Destiny”, “The Queen of Saba”, “The Little Book”, “Oncle”, “The Night of Saint Valentine”, “Paris-Montpellier”,  “Such Dad”, “The Demon”, “Qumran”, “Fry”, “Enemies Regards”, and “La Khaena”.

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Claude Gorsky is a French producer and entrepreneur who has worked in virtually every aspect of film and television for the past 40 years. Among his long list of experiences, he has worked with Claude Lelouch, Philippe de Broca as director’s first assistant, producer of TV shows, commercials, produced “Pollux” a 3D animation movie. Recently he has been working with John Boorman on a CGI animation of “The Wizard of Oz.” He is also the creator of the UNESCO TV Channel.

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Ilan is a creative man by choice.  His life has always been built around chaos. Ilan was born in Ecuador, 1980. He likes the mixture of fantasy day-dreaming with real developing projects.  Major in Social Communications, specialized in the audiovisual field.  Always carries his clown nose around.  Loves wearing different T-Shirts and also manages to have a vast experience on directing/editing TV Promotions and trailers in different Software’s (such as Avid and Final Cut Pro). Out of work, loves the challenge of writing down fictional short stories, absurd texts or “self-called” deep emotional poems.

Addie is an emerging new Israeli cinematographers and we are proud to cooperate with him over several projects. Addie stands out in his ability to quickly analyze the elements of a scene with effective storytelling techniques, while keeping within the production constraints. His 2007 feature “The Shelter” won the Best Drama award at the Hollywood DV Festival. That same year he shot a documentary feature titled “Zitra” for the acclaimed director Judd Ne’eman. In 2009, he was chosen for the Berlinale Talent Campus, and won 1st prize in the Cyprus Underwater Video competition. His short “Sinner” won the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the European Film Academy Awards. His film “Secure Space” was the official selection of the 2009 Karlovy-Vary Film Festival, the 2010 San-Francisco independent film festival and the 2010 Nashville film festival. “Secure Space” also won best TV film in the 2009 Israeli Academy Awards. Addie won the Best Cinematography award in the Festival Duistere Openbaringen for the Dutch film “Come Spring”. Addie studied Film & Television at the Tel Aviv University. During his studies he won the Cinematography Grant Award of the America-Israel Cultural Funda whopping four times. Addie works with film cameras, HD, infra-red and underwater. Addie loves making fiction films and enjoys shooting commercials.

Some comments on Addie’s work by acclaimed cinematographers:

“Inspiring Sensitive Cinematography” -Adam Greenberg, ASC (Terminator 2/ James Cameron)

”Impressive camera work” – Michael Chapman, ASC (Taxi Driver/ Martin Scorsese)

“Unique lighting and color perception… most promising talent” – Vadim Yusov (Solaris/ Andrei Tarkovsky)

Watch Addie’s Showreel on YouTube 

 

Joshua studied Film & Television at the Film Academy (FAMU) in Praha. He is an award-winning director who has won such awards as: Winner of Conflict and Resolution Award, Hamptons International Film Festival, and Winner of the Pierre Salinger Award for Documentary Filmmaking – Avignon Film Festival. He has directed several feature-length documentaries and short films, most notably “A Will To Dance”, “Blues by the Beach” and “Russki Battalion.” Joshua’s website : http://www.joshuafaudem.com/ 

Avraham, Shalom Levi is an actor playwright and director. He graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and the Film Studies program at Hunter College in New York City. He established the first Israeli theater group in New York, where his plays “The Shirt” and “Tzvika the Soldier” have been running for years. In the last four years in Israel he has directed many of his plays, among them: “Coffee with Strawberries”, “The guards”, “Roof”, “Filoktetes” by Sofokles Etc. Avraham acted in a few feature films and T.V. series. He is currently has been working on a new show called “America my Love” and running the opening theater as the artistic director. Avraham Shalom Levi was born in Jerusalem in 1977 and from very early on he was identified by his teacher as exceptionally talented in the art of acting. At the age of nine he established an independent theatre group wrote and produced performances once a week in front of his class and dealt with, amongst other things, training the actors, casting and of course, daily rehearsals; the auditions and the rehearsals were held in the backyard. In high school he studied in the Performing Arts section in the democratic School for the arts, there, for the first time, he was exposed to the world of professional theatre and even acted himself in different school productions. As an adult, Avraham moved to New York and was accepted to the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institution. With the completion of his studies, Avraham continued to study film in Hunter College, New York, there, he discovered his writing abilities. During this time Avraham initiated the creation of the first Israeli theatre group in New York which produced his first play “The shirt “, this absurdist play dealt with the American fear after 9/11.  He then produced his second play, “Tzvika the soldier” a one man show in which he also acted. Both productions were staged in the off Broadway theaters of New York and won great acclimation as well as heartfelt responses throughout the city. After his five years abroad Avraham returned to Israel and with his arrival he became one of the most ‘fertile’ makers in the creative field of the country. He published numerous plays and wrote a variety of scripts which were produced in a range of theaters among them, Coffee with Strawberries, The Guards and Roof. Avraham also directed the one  women show “Now that the shack is on fire we can see the moonlight” in the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa, as well as the play “Come Back To Us Philoctats” in the Inbal Theatre. As an actor Avraham participated in International films as well as many Israeli projects such as the Salt of the sea (France), On the Third Day a Moshe Ivgy film (Israel). In the last year Avraham took on the role of artistic director of the fringe theater in Holon, of which he was also one of the co-founders. Avraham teaches acting in a wide range of schools throughout Tel Aviv and is occupied with writing on a daily basis. He is working on his first book, writes poetry and recently finished writing a full length movie script. Avraham lives in Giv’atayim and is married to Rinat Tzemach, an artist and a multidisciplinary caretaker. In these days he is busy in rehearsals for two plays written and directed by him, “Candles” and “America My Love”. Up until now Avraham wrote many other plays not yet staged, amongst them Hagibda the Queen, Awaken, Candles, Man Woman, On That Day, Everything is White White, America my love. 

Director, producer and cinematographer of many feature films, Documentaries, Television series, commercials etc. Graduated (B.F.A) Film and TV studies at Tel-Aviv University, 1986. Workshops supervisor in the communication school at the Netanya Academic College. General Manager of the “Kol Netanya” Radio station 106FM (www.106fm.fm). Senior teacher at the film and television department in the Tel-Aviv University. Head of department of the Cinema and Television studies at the School of Practical Engineering at the Ariel College Center of Samaria. Expert director for programming Vidiwall by Philips. Expert consultant for planning and establishing Television & Radio studios. Member at the I.S.C the Israeli Society of Cinematographers since 1990. Member at the I.A.M.P Israeli Academy of Motion Pictures since 1993. Member at the Film & Television schools principals’ forum since 1999.

Editor/ International Development, Chaos Films

Ivana, a girl with whom art is a number one passion, comes to Tel Aviv from Germany. She has traveled and lived around the world and loves working on various projects in film and theater. She not only works behind the scenes but has performed on stage in Germany .

 Editor/ International Development, Chaos Films