My Game Changer by Nevet Mazor and Liran Atzmor
CoPro 24 announced June 3 the award winners from the 2022 market, including double award-winner My Game Changer and Podium. A distribution grant was also presented to Lost Angeles – Documentary Musical. After two years of online presentation due to the pandemic, dozens of film industry players gathered in Tel Aviv for in-person events including pitches, screenings, and meetings.
Also announced this week, CoPro alumni The Camera of Doctor Morris, by directors Itamar Alcalay and Meital Zvieli, won the Best Israeli Film award at Docaviv. The film team also closed a broadcast deal with German and French television networks RBB/ARTE, with CoPro’s support.
The CoPro market is entirely dedicated to promoting Israeli documentary projects to the international documentary sector, with the aim of creating partnerships and raising resources from international investors, organisers write.
Winner – Current Time TV Award for Best Pitch
- My Game Changer. Directors: Nevet Mazor and Liran Atzmor. Producers: Orly Topel and Vivi Halpern. An autistic man’s journey to learn from other gamers overseas how to manage life’s challenges.
Winner – Visioni dal mondo Award for Best Pitch
- My Game Changer. Directors: Nevet Mazor and Liran Atzmor. Producers: Orly Topel and Vivi Halpern. An autistic man’s journey to learn from other gamers overseas how to manage life’s challenges.
Winner – Fipadoc Award
- Podium. Director: Rachel Leah Jones. Producers: Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche. Were we to listen to one long speech, crafted out of thousands delivered by Palestinian lawmakers from the plenum podium since the Jewish state was established, like a relay race across the generations and against the political odds, what would we hear?
In addition to the pitch awards, CoPro awarded one film with a special distribution grant:
WINNER – Orna Yarmot Distribution Grant
- Lost Angeles – Documentary Musical. Directors: Golan Rise and Sharon Yaish. In Kiryat Malachi, Los Angeles’ twin city, dreams were left behind. Yosef Hurriye is 60 years old: with mounting debts and looming local elections, he decides it’s time to fight for the town and his life.
CoPro Executive Director Pnina Halfon Lang told Business Doc Europe during the 2022 event: “We are thrilled to have had hundreds of participants from across Israel and around the world who joined us at CoPro 24. We have shared over a dozen major new documentary productions at our pitching event, attended by leading TV and film executives from networks across the globe. We have showcased 7 new films at the rough-cut stage, and we have had hundreds of one-on-one meetings that facilitated top-level business conversations.”
She added: “The reactions we are getting are incredibly positive, from both the Israeli and international industry. This is how co-production is done and it has been exciting to experience it again in-person here in Israel after two years of virtual CoPro. We are already looking ahead to our historic 25th market next year back here in Tel Aviv.”
For the first time, the CoPro Market and Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival took place simultaneously. Thirteen of the films that premiered at the 2022 festival were part CoPro Market and managed to establish international investments and partnerships. These included including H2: The Occupation Lab by directors Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf (France Televisions, RTBF, RTS, SVT, YLE), The Camera of Doctor Morris by Itamar Alcalay and Meital Zvieli (Arte, RBB), The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes by director Yariv Mozer (Sipur, MGM), and others.
