Creator and Director

Oded Davidoff is a leading Israeli film and television director and a winner of two Israeli Television Academy Awards. He directed several feature films, including Someone to Run With, based on the novel by David Grossman, which opened the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2006. His work for TV series includes Pillars of Smoke, The Exchange Principle, The Malevolent Bride, Netflix’s The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, and, in 2024, the upcoming season 4 of the hit series Teheran for Apple TV.

Creator and Producer

Daniel Finkelman is a director and producer, founder of New York-based production houses Sparks GO and Daniel Finkelman Films, and COO of Kinolime. He has received industry-wide recognition in the Best First Film category at The Independent Spirit Awards for producing Menashe, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlinale film festivals, and for The Vigil, which premiered at TIFF. Daniel is the Lead Producer on The Performance, a feature-length film starring Jeremy Piven and Robert Carlyle. He is also producing the upcoming film Tin Soldier, a thriller starring Robert De Niro, Jamie Foxx, and Scott Eastwood, as well as Our House is On Fire, a love story filmed entirely in Ukraine during the ongoing war.

CEO of FOX Entertainment Global

Fernando Szew is CEO of FOX Entertainment Global, which oversees the international, multi-platform sales and distribution of intellectual property owned and produced by FOX Entertainment and its growing portfolio of in-house production studios, as well as premium content acquired from outside producers.

Producer

Chaya Amor is an award-winning producer, content creator, and partner at Sparks Next as well as CMO of the production company, Kinolime. Chaya was a producer on the critically acclaimed film, The Vigil, which premiered at TIFF. She is a producer on The Performance, based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Arthur Miller, starring Jeremy Piven and Robert Carlyle. Chaya is currently producing the feature films Tin Soldier, starring Robert DeNiro and Jamie Foxx, and the Ukrainian drama Our House is On Fire, shot entirely in Ukraine during the war.

Screenwriter

Liron Ben Shlush is an Israeli actress and screenwriter. She studied acting at the Nissan Native Acting Studio in Tel-Aviv. She has held major roles in film, TV, and theater, most notably as the title character in the 2009 film Maya by Michal Bat Adam, for which she received a Best Actress nomination at the Israeli Academy Awards. In 2014, Next to Her, a film she wrote and starred in, partly based on her personal story, was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Producer

Aviv Ben Shlush has been a producer in the film and television industry for over a decade. Known for Bachurim Tovim 2 (Matchmaking 2), directed by Erez Tadmor. Feature films include Oxygen, directed by Netalie Braun; Burning the Sky, directed by Imri Matalon; and The Pool, directed by Amihcai Greenberg, starring Yoram Gaon.

Producer

Lee Kuperman is the Head of Content Development at ZOA Films, an independent production company specializing in feature films, documentaries, docu-reality, reality programs, and scripted series. Kuperman has extensive experience of over 10 years as a line producer and production manager for tens of narrative and documentary films, as well as scripted and non-scripted series.

Composer

Daniel Salomon began his career at 25 as a pianist and orchestral arranger for Israeli rocker Aviv Geffen, later joining the band Blackfield with Geffen and Steven Wilson. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, which produced several Israeli radio hits and earned him the “Composer of the Year” award. Salomon has composed music for theater, including for Israel’s National Theatre, and wrote the score for the film The Secrets. In 2021, he composed the theme song for the series Beauty Queen of Jerusalem.