ZORKI - hiding Mom's Secret // TRAILER (3') // JMT Films Distribution

ZORKI - hiding Mom's Secret // TRAILER // JMT Films Distribution
_A Documentary Film by Zohar Wagner / Israel 2006_ Produced by Barak Heymann (''Bridge over the Wadi'')_Creative Documentary. 54 minutes. Hebrew. English subtitles._The film was produced for Yes-Doco Documentary Channel, DBS Satellite Broadcasting Israel_
SYNOPSIS: ''When I was twelve my mom fell in love with a man ten years her junior. Though she was still married to my father, for the next five years she engaged in a sordid affair. When she needed an alibi, she used to take me with her to her rendezvous, and even let me in on the gory details. Thus I was made an accomplice to the secret that would tear my family apart. '' Zohar WAGNER _Two years ago, Zohar Wagner, then 34, decided to tear away the cloak of silence that enveloped her bourgeois family. Twenty years had gone by since the affair and the Filmmaker's Mother is selling her childhood home. The need to sort out each family members belongings brings the family together and Pandoras Box is opened. The Wagners are confronting on camera the difficult episode that had torn the family apart. The film is called "Zorki," the family nickname for Zohar.
Produced by
Barak Heymann producer
Zohar Wagner co-producer
Original Music by Benjamin Weisler
Cinematography by Zohar Wagner
Film Editing by Zohar Wagner
_ FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: * Best Foreign Film-Audience Choice: Delray Beach Film Festival, Florida - USA _* Gold Remi Award: Worldfest Houston Film Festival, Texas - USA _* Nominee: Best First Film: Israel Documentary Awards - Israel_* DEREEL Film Festival - Australia_ Film and Television Festival, Rosh Pina - Israel
_Web Site:
http://www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#zorki ; View Film on DocAlliance
http://docalliancefilms.com/film/2154/
_CONTACT: Michael Treves - JMT Films Distribution _ jmtreves@012.net.il

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Film & Animation

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• DBS Satellite Broadcasting