The Balcony - Studio Darom Participants 2022
Synopsis
Oren is tired of being alone. For years he has been trying to find love without success. Oren is also Emmanuel Cunt, a colorful and clownish drag queen, heading to the 1st audition of Drag Race Israel. On the balcony facing his new apartment, Oren begins to look at a beautiful straight couple and slowly falls in love with both of them. Obsessed by them, Oren abandons his life, his friends and himself. Stealing the couple’s dog will remind Oren that he has forgotten to love himself, and will push him to be the best drag queen and to find love (with a redhead).
Etamar Kadushevitz | Director
I was born in 1990 in Tel Aviv but I grew up in a small town in the Golan Heights. In high school I started writing screenplays. I studied at Sapir College for a bachelor’s degree in cinema. During my studies I made a short trilogy and a graduate film. The films have been screened at film festivals in Toronto, Boston, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and more LGBT+ festivals. I made a non-budget independent short film called «Bound». I live in Tel Aviv with my boyfriend and I work on a variety of projects in film, television and web. 16-year-old me would be content.
Thomas Alfandari - Bustan Films | Producer
Thomas Alfandari have learned law and Hebrew, as well as scriptwriting at Le Grand Atelier de la Fémis. He worked in France for more than twenty years as assistant director and line producer on feature films and documentaries with, among others, the Dardenne brothers, Cédric Kahn, Abderrahmane Sissako and Ursula Meier. He emigrated in Israel in 2010 where is immediately start working as a line or Israeli producer, on films and TV series by Elie Wajeman, Marc Fitoussi, Shirel Amitai, William Karel, Amanda Sthers, Thomas Vincent, Orit Fuks, Yossi Aviram. He founded Bustan Films in 2016.
He has been the Israeli producer of M by Yolande Zauberman (Locarno’s Special Jury Prize – Bayard d’Or FIFF de Namur – Best director - Seville EFF and more) and Les Parties Intimes by Noé Debré (Moonshaker – Canal+). He is recently associate producer to 35 Downhill by Yona Rozenkier. Currently Funding The Nobleman, second feature by Bazi Gete, and The Balcony, debute’s film by Etamar Kadusheviz. Bella by Zohar Shahar and Jamal Khalaily, feature film, is now on pre-production with the support of The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation, Gesher Multicultural Fund and Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, in coproduction with the Film du Fleuve (Belgium).