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  • Chambon Foundation - activities include participation in conferences and university lecture series and the development of an ever-growing, specialized photographic and document archive on the Holocaust and rescue in France, as well as on the American experience during that time.
  • Generation Exodus
  • Israel Film Fund - The Fund aims to increase the number of audience for Israeli films in Israel and worldwide and raise public awareness to the cultural, social and economic contribution of a busy and vibrant filmmaking industry in Israel. These goals are achieved by investing in the development of scripts, in the production, in promoting co productions and by assisting in the marketing and distribution of the films in Israel and worldwide.
  • Jewish Heritage Video Collection - created to explore Jewish heritage through the unique resources of film and television. A project of the Jewish Media Fund.
  • Makor Foundation for Israeli Films - fosters the production of original Israeli dramas, full-length feature films (primarily for television) and documentaries, in the development and production stages.
  • National Center for Jewish Film - at Brandeis University, the National Center for Jewish Film is a unique film archive created to preserve the pictorial records of the Jewish experience.
  • Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Archive is jointly administered by the University's Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Central Zionist Archives of the World Zionist Organization and has the status of a Special Collection of the Jewish National and University Library. It is affiliated with the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).

Specific Films:

  • Broken Wings - A family drama from Israel by Nir Bergman ENG HEB
  • Saint Clara - award-winning Israeli coming of age film starring Lucy Dubinchik
  • Yossi and Jaguar - Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger portrays the love affair of two (male) Israeli officers in a remote army base on the Israeli-Lebanese border. A film by Eytan Fox.

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