Vulcan Junction

With a great sound track of 1970s rock music, this latest film by the maker of CUP FINAL (1992 SFJFF) and ZOHAR (1994 SFJFF) covers nine days in the lives of six Israeli friends prior to the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Four rock musicians in a run-down industrial neighborhood east of Haifa are waiting for their big Tel Aviv break. They rehearse, hang out and rock out at the local bar, Vulcan Junction, owned by a burnt-out American hippie. The friends all have dreams and are on the verge of new beginnings. A local soccer star will stop at nothing to get a contract with an Amsterdam team. His smart and sexy girlfriend has to choose between family and her aspirations to break out of the mold by becoming a journalist with a left-wing newspaper. Stories of ambition and love, with a sense of endless possibility, are interrupted one morning with early news of war. VULCAN JUNCTION is a nostalgic voyage to the last days of innocence in the lives of young people and the last moments before a whole country was engulfed by a war that would forever change it. Featuring our favorite Israeli hunk, Sami Houri (FLORENTENE, SFJFF 1998, 1999) and music from Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, King Crimson, The Hollies, Jethro Tull, The Zombies, and The Animals.

Graduate of the National Film School, Beaconsfield, England(1982) Feature Films: Vulcan Junction (1999) a nostalgic, musical film set in Haifa – the Liverpool of Israel - a week before the Yom Kippur War, 1973. Winner of the Best Film Award, Haifa Int. Film Festival 1999 Zohar (1993) the most successful Israeli film in recent years. The tragic story of Israeli cult singer Zohar Argov. Cup Final (1991) an international success, presented in numerous festivals (incl. Venice and Berlin), sold world wide for theatrical and TV release. The story of an Israeli captured by a PLO unit during the war in Lebanon, 1982 while the World Cup soccer games were held in Spain. On a clear day you can see Damascus (1984) A political thriller based on the true story of an Israeli accused of spying for Syria. Television films, series, documentaries: (channels 1 and 2, Israel) -Borders (1999) Documentary about life on the borders of Israel. Winner of the 1999 Discovery Channel MediaNet award, Munich Film Festival. -Cause of Death: Murder (1998) 5 part mini-series – police drama. -Lucky (1997) Drama -Poetics of the Masses (1997) 20 part documentary series about sex(!) -Deadly Fortune (1996) 13 part drama series set in Israel’s high society. -Me & my wife (1996) 13 part comedy series based on the writing of Kishon, Israel’s no. 1 comedy writer. -Straight Forward (1995) 20 part comedy series Other projects: About 300 commercials for various companies in Israel and England, Various drama shorts as director, producer and director of photography.