Draft:Joseph Pitchhadze
{{Short description|Israeli film director, producer and screenwriter}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Joseph Pitchhadze
| native_name = {{No bold|{{Script/Hebrew|יוסף פיצ'חדזה}}}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|03|28}}
| birth_place = Tbilisi, Georgia
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| nationality = Israeli
| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter
Film producer
Theatre director
| years_active = 1990-present
| known_for = Nomination 1997 Best Film Golden Berlin Bear
Nomination Best Director 2004, 2014, the Israeli Film Academy award
| notable_works = Under Western Eyes
Year Zero
Sweets
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Joseph Pitchhadze ({{langx|he|יוסף פיצ'חדזה}}; born March 24, 1965) is an Israeli film director, theatre director, screenwriter and producer. His film Under Western Eyes was nominated for the 1997 Best Film Golden Berlin Bear award{{cite web|work=Berlin International Film Festival|url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/1997/programme/19970973.html|title=Leneged Enayim Maaraviot}}, and two of his films, Year Zero and Sweets{{cite web|work=The Jerusalem Post|url=https://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/2013-Ophir-nominations-announced-snubs-and-all-323063|title=2013 Ophir nominations announced - snubs and all|date=August 14, 2013 }}, were nominated for Best Director Award at the Ophir Awards.
He is currently (2025) a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University's (TAU) Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, part of the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts.{{cite web|work=TAU CRIS|url=https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/persons/joseph-pitchhadze|title=Joseph Pitchhadze}}
Biography
Pitchadze was Born in Tbilisi, Georgia.{{cite web|work=IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685662/|title=Joseph Pitchhadze}} At the age of six, he moved with his family to Israel.{{cite web|work=The Jerusalem Cinematheque's Israel Film Archive|url=https://jfc.org.il/official/joseph-pitchhadze/|title=יוסף פיצ'חדזה}}
He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from of the Department of Film & Television, TAU.
In the early 2000's Pitchadze was also head of the production track at the TAU Film and Television Studies department.
Film career
= Student Films =
During his studies at the Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television, Pitchhadze directed two short movies:
= Feature Films =
Pitchhadze's first feature film, Under Western Eyes (1996) was shortlisted for the 1997 Berlin Film Festival {{cite web|work=Berlin International Film Festival|url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/1997/programme/19970973.html|title=Leneged Enayim Maaraviot}} where it won Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.{{cite web|work= International Interchurch Film Organisation|url=https://www.inter-film.org/de/festivals/berlinale-internationale-filmfestspiele-berlin/47-internationale-filmfestspiele-berlin|title=47. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin}} The film is about a young Israeli man returning to Israel from Berlin for his father's supposed funeral, only to become involved in a scheme to capture his fugitive father.{{cite web|work=Letterboxd|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/under-western-eyes-1996/|title=Under Western Eyes}}
His next film, Besame Mucho (2000) shared the Jerusalem Film Festival Wolgin Award for Best Israeli Feature with
Dan Wolman's Foreign Sister.{{cite web|work=JJJ|url=https://jff.org.il/en/article/6205|title= 2000 Festival}} It is a crime movie, about southern Tel Aviv residents who plot to steal a valuable Christian icon from a local mafia figure, hoping to sell it in Paris and escape to a better life.{{cite web|work=Letterboxd|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/besame-mucho-2000/|title=Besame Mucho}}
Pitchhadze's third feature film, Year Zero (2004), was nominated for the Ophir prize. It follows a diverse group of Tel Aviv residents whose lives get interconnected as they navigate personal crises and loss, seeking meaning in life and redemption,{{cite web|work=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/2004-07-18/ty-article/0000017f-f329-d8a1-a5ff-f3ab64700000|title=הנס הגדול של פיצ'חדזה}}
His next film, Sweets (2014), described severe social and political tensions resulting from an Israeli-Arab entrepreneur's plan to open a candy store chain, igniting a fierce conflict with a powerful Israeli corporation. It was supported by the municipal Jerusalem Film and Television Fund{{cite web|work=The Jerusalem Film & Television Fund|url=https://thejerusalemfilmfund.com/film/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA/|title=Sweets}} and was also nominated for the Ophir prize.
Theatre plays
In addition to his film career, Pitchhadze directed these theatre two plays at the Library Theater in Ramat Gan:
- Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros in 2002{{cite web|work=Beit Zvi|url=https://www.beit-zvi.com/?CategoryID=205&ArticleID=764|title=הצגות בית צבי - מחזורים מ'-נ"ד}}
- Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 2003{{cite web|work=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/2003-03-01/ty-article/0000017f-db61-df9c-a17f-ff7944f00000|title=יש רק בוגדת אחת}}.
In 2006, he directed Gregory Burke's first play, Gagarin Way, at the Zionist Organization of America House in Tel Aviv.{{cite web|work=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/2006-06-21/ty-article/0000017f-e84b-da9b-a1ff-ec6f4d360000|title=המניפסט הקפיטליסטי}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0685662|Joseph Pitchhadze}}
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Category:20th-century Israeli screenwriters
Category:21st-century Israeli screenwriters
Category:Israeli film directors
Category:Israeli film producers
Category:Israeli theatre directors
Category:Israeli male screenwriters
Category: Tel Aviv University alumni
Category:Israeli_people_of_Georgian-Jewish_descent
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