DC Shorts starts tonight (although our film isn’t showing until Saturday), so we thought we would provide everyone with a little teaser of the film! Check out the first 40 seconds or so of Barberin’ below (sorry for the low quality)! Barberin’ is also getting a little exposure in the […]

We’re finally back in the states, after a long trip back home.  All of our equipment, and most importantly our tapes, have made it back in one piece.  Traveling from Israel to DC carrying 45 hours of irreplaceable footage was quite nerve racking. While we don’t have a computer to […]

“OH my god, oh my god, we have to go down now, now. I’m going to pass out.” Words mean little up here in our steel cage, floating 100 feet above the kibbutz. The loud drone of the crane engine muffles Tessa’s voice as she falls deeper into her panic […]

By Ben Crosbie  We are now in our final stages of production. With only a week left to go, we are in the home stretch. Each storyline and every character arc has to reach it’s conclusion, and all the remaining b-roll and establishing shots have to be filmed. After looking […]

By Tessa Moran We’ve decided to add one more character to our film — Safta, Ben’s grandmother. She can offer an excellent perspective on the kibbutz because she has lived here for over 70 years. She has tremendous dedication to the kibbutz, and defends it at all costs. She is […]

Filming children can be fun and can result in some heartwarming footage that anyone with an ounce of humanity will find endearing. Filming children can also be a nightmare, that can result in endless lawsuits. Ok, you probably won’t get sued if you film a child, but there are huge […]

DC Shorts has just updated its website for the 2007 film festival. Our film Barberin’ will be screening during the shorts screening #5, at 6pm on Saturday September 15th at Landmark’s E Street Theater (and then hopefully during the “best of” screenings during the rest of the following week). Tickets […]

“What will your film be about?” a kibbutznik asks us. After giving him a brief summary of our idea and what we have filmed so far, he pauses momentarily with a quizzical look on his face. “You must show a well rounded view of the kibbutz… do not make it […]

Director Oren Jacoby (Constantine’s Sword) quoted another documentarian: “Watch out if you think you see a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s probably just a train coming right at you.” We’ve discovered the truth of this statement in our own work. After two and a half weeks of […]

By Tessa Moran A couple of days ago we filmed Dganit. Her friend Noy was visiting from outside of the kibbutz and Dganit had planned to show her her new room. Teenagers can qualify to rent a private room in the kibbutz for a nominal fee. The rooms are small, […]

By Ben Crosbie, photos by Tessa Moran High in the Sky Spinning, spinning, spinning higher and higher into the air, sometimes gaining a few hundred feet of altitude in a second, the glider climbs towards the atmosphere in a dizzying ascent. The small engine-less glider is like a toy airplane, […]

Yesterday morning we began filming in the kitchen of the dining room. The chadar ochel, as it is called in hebrew, was an important element of kibbutz life. Kibbutzniks once ate every meal in the dining room, but now only lunch is provided. The single meal is a remnant of […]