Ms. Sigal Yehuda serves for the last two years as the Managing Director of GREENHOUSE which considered as the most successful EU development program in the framework of Euromed Audio-Visual II. Yehuda led the Greenhouse project to its international recognition as a leading program for MEDA documentary filmmakers. She is responsible for the fruitful international relations with leading forces in the documentary industry, such as Sundance Institute, the Jan Vrijman Fund, P.O.V, ARTE, ITVS, Fortissimo, Cinema World Fund, the Binger Film Institute, Holland films to name a few. Prior to her current position Yehuda served as the producer of GREENHOUSE project since its initiation, in September 2006. Between 1999-2006 Yehuda was the CEO of an International production house in Greece, where she produced and co-directed several films together with Joelle Alexis an international award winning editor. Amongst them is “Almost there” (2003) a 52 MIN documentary which was selected to over 20 film festivals from around the world. Recently Yehuda initiated together with Greenhouse' 4 partners a new development program for European & MEDA filmmakers on the theme of racism & human rights which received the prestigious support of the EU in the framework of MEDIA International. The new project will start its activity in 2010.
Yair Lev was born in 1959 in Tel Aviv where he lives up until today. So far he made four feature-documentaries; 'Hugo 2" (2008); “Uri Avnery: Warrior for Peace” (2002) which won the In the Spirit of Freedom award for best documentary at the 2002 Jerusalem Film Festival and soon afterwards was released in theatres all over Germany; “Yakantalisa – a Portrait of a Dead Poet” (1996); “Hugo” (1989) was shown at the Berlin, Chicago and Montreal Film Festivals and in many others. In 1996 he received the Ministry of Culture's Art of Cinema award. He also directed several of short films and educational films. Yair Lev teaches filmmaking and theory of cinema at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School and Bezalel-Art Academy both in Jerusalem. In 2008, Lev joined the Greenhouse team as head of studies.
After two years of a masters degree at the Tel Aviv University in film and television, Sarah has since then (2003) been working in the field of production. She has worked as a production manager for the applauded documentary films : Paper Dolls (directed by Tomer Heyman) and Bil'in Habibti (directed by Shai Carmeli Pollak). In 2007, Sarah worked as a production and technical manager for the Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company. In 2008, Sarah joined the Greenhouse team as production coordinator.
Ms. Sigal Yehuda, Managing Director
