Full Description
Gur and Mitzi are friends from childhood. They live in a small provincial town where Israeli folk dancing is the only public form of entertainment. Gur wants to study architecture in Tel Aviv. Mitzi is still searching for her career. It is summer and they are working together at a hot dog stand at the fair. They both dream of Merito, a wickedly handsome, Casanova-type. Nohav, an angel-faced boy who heads the Eurovision fan club, longs only for Gur to notice him. (Eurovision is a popular music contest watched by millions of Europeans and Israelis.) Filmmaker Eytan Fox (SONG OF THE SIREN and FLORENTENE) describes this romantic musical as a Gay Israeli fantasy.
Filmmaker Bio(s)
Eytan Fox was born in New York City and came to Israel as a child. He grew up in Jerusalem and after serving in the Army, studied in Tel Aviv University's school of Film and Television.
His first film Time Off, a 50-minute drame about sexual identity in the Israeli Army (SF JFF), won 1990 Movie of the Year award from the Israeli Film Institute and many international prizes, among them First prize in Munich's International Student Film Festival.
His first feature film Song of the Siren (SF JFF), a romantic comedy about life in Tel Aviv during the 1991 Gulf War, was Israel's biggest box-office success in 1994.
Over the past two years, Fox has created and directed Florentene, a dramatic series for Israeli Television that examines the life of young people in urban Israel against the background of Rabin's assasination. The series won First Prize in the Televiaion category of the 1997 Jerusalem International Film Festival.
Eytan Fox is currently working on a script for his first English-speaking film, tentatively entitled 1967.
