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Name
  
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz


Role
  
Film director

Movies
  
The Law in These Parts, The Inner Tour, James' Journey to Jerusalem, Martin, Rak Bemikrim Bodedim

Similar People
  
Salim Dau, Ehud Banai, Renen Schorr

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Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (Hebrew: רענן אלכסנדרוביץ'‎‎, born August 29, 1969, Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. The documentary he directed, The Law in These Parts won the Best Documentary Prize from the Van Leer Institute in the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Education

Alexandrowicz is a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. His graduation short film Rak B'Mikrim Bodedim (1966, English title: Self Confidence Ltd) won awards at festivals of Kraków (Bronze Dinosaur Award, "3rd Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy Etiuda&Anima", 13 – 16 November 1996) and Łódź.

Career

In 1999 he released the documentary Martin, about a former prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp, who lives in the town of Dachau and every day goes to the memorial site at the camp. The film won numerous international awards. In 2001 he directed the documentary The Inner Tour, which follows a three-day trip of a group of Palestinians from Israeli territories. The film won second place Docaviv 2002 and screened in dozens of festivals around the world.

In 2003 he wrote and directed the full-length feature film James' Journey to Jerusalem in the series "Geography Lesson", which won awards in Israel and around the world. Aleksandrowicz has an ongoing collaboration with composer and singer Ehud Banai, who won the Ophir Award for music for the film James' Journey to Jerusalem. He has directed many music videos in recent years.

In 2011, he directed the documentary The Law in These Parts, which describes the system of law and justice in the West Bank, through interviews with military judges, heads of the Military Advocate General, headed by Meir Shamgar as a Judge Advocate General in 1967 designed the legal infrastructure of the military rule. The film won the Best Documentary Prize, the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem Film Festival and the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

References

Ra'anan Alexandrowicz Wikipedia