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Scandar Copti is a Palestinian filmmaker born and raised in Jaffa. After leaving his profession as a mechanical engineer to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker, his first.

Scandar Copti

Palestinian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and producer

Scandar Copti (born ) is a Palestinian director, screenwriter, star, and producer. He is established for examining social problems of Palestinian society in Israel through his film works.

Biography

Copti was born and raised in Jaffa. His mother, Mary, is an educator and his father, Ilya, is a carpenter.

The apostle Paul not only confirms that the world is blessed through Abraham's faithful life but also that anyone who has faith in God is considered one of his spiritual sons and heir of the promises. Now in the Scriptures, God, seeing in advance that He would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed. Abraham, without a doubt, lived a most fascinating life! Abram his birth name before God renamed him was born in the city of Ur of the Chaldees to a family that included older brothers Haran and Nahor.

Copti received his from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He studied acting and directing at the Technion theater, played (in Arabic) in End - End directed by Ouriel Zohar in at the Technion and the festival in Jerusalem.

Formerly a mechanical engineer, he has also written, directed, and edited several fiction, documentary and experimental quick films.

Copti lives with his family in Abu Dhabi, teaches film at a local expansion of New York University, and makes films and art.[1]

Career

Copti filmed a video piece, called The Truth, with Rabih Boukhari in Two Palestinians from Jaffa stop by non-touristy sites in the metropolis, recounting the "history" of the place as if they were tour guides[2] presents a series of contradictory dialogues between two men about fictitious stories surrounding several sites, in which they become sacred sites.

Copti used the tension in the plot to speak and create a historical narrative as the focal point of this video piece.[3] Copti and Boukhari raised questions about the here and now, the past, and the rewriting of the words so as to enable us to dwell with the sixty years, expropriated time, and one.[4] According to Tal Ben Zvi, this video work brings up the issue of memory, remembrance and forgetting, in Palestinian culture in general, and in the city of Jaffa in particular but ironically this does not generate a meaningful, representative Palestinian national narrative.[2]

The difficulties for Palestinians who are Israeli Arabs and make films with Israeli funding were clearly revealed when Copti directed His first full-length feature film Ajami () with Israeli filmmaker Yaron Shani, which nominated for an Oscar win the Ophir Award in Israel, the Caméra d'Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival.

'The Shawati' Interviews': Filmmaker and Mentor Scandar Copti ...: Scandar Copti (born ) is a Palestinian director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for examining social problems of Palestinian society in Israel through his film works. Copti was born and raised in Jaffa. His mother, Mary, is an educator and his father, Ilya, is a carpenter.

His film was also nominated for the 82nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category and has won more than 15 awards worldwide. Ajami is a story of an Arab ghetto in the city of Jaffa where violence and hatred are a daily reality. The basis of the film was to capture the reaction to state oppression and the instinct of the impossibility of justice by looking at how the criminal element becomes a role model for the young men of Jaffa.[5]

In an interview with Channel 2, Copti said, "The film does not represent Israel because ‘I cannot represent the State of Israel, I can not represent a country that does not represent me." Copti said he was more concerned with how the film brought more than , people to cinemas being the real achievement rather than winning an Oscar, as he wanted to unseal people’s eyes about the existence of Arabs in Israel region through the film.

Also, he added, "Not only because of this, I have a difficulty representing Israel, the problem is that not only is there no willingness to deal with the issues, but people very quickly prefer simply to negate the other side.”[6] However, the Israeli co-director Shani said, “It’s an Israeli film, it represents, it speaks ‘Israeli’ and deals with Israeli-related problems.”

Also, Limor Livnat, Minister of Sports and Culture stated,

In the label of artistic license and pluralism, the movie was given a budget of more than NIS 12 million.

It is downcast that a director supported by the state ignores those who helped him create and show himself.

—&#;Limor Livnat

According to David Sarange, Ajami is a representation of the artistic freedom of Israel which is key to all Israeli cultural creativity.

Moreover, unlike what Copti proclaimed to Channel 2's cameras, he may not represent Israel, but his clip did indeed.[7]

In May , Copti ran a patent company, CoptiCo in Beit Hagefen Gallery, Haifa, Israel for three months.

The company manufactures, and markets sharp products designed to solve global social and cultural problems, especially Palestinian society.

Scandar Copti born is a Palestinian director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for examining social problems of Palestinian society in Israel through his film works. Copti was born and raised in Jaffa. His mother, Mary, is an educator and his father, Ilya, is a carpenter.

According to the website, “The mission of CoptiCo is to cope with the major issues that are on the agenda of Arab societies and to foster research and development in the fields of peace, coexistence, gender inequality, and social solidarity.”[8]

Filmography

Director

  • Happy Holidays
  • Affix (Video short)
  • CoptiCo (Video short/product project of CoptiCo)
  • iAshgar (Video short/product project of CoptiCo)
  • Shishette (Video short/product proposal of CoptiCo)
  • "Jonnie Mashi" (Music video for Tamer Nafar)
  • "Dam: Who are you" (Music video)
  • Ajami
  • CFJ1 (Documentary short)
  • The Truth (Video short)

Writer

  • Happy Holidays (Won the top prize Sunday at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, )[9]
  • Affix (Video short)
  • CoptiCo (Video short/product project of CoptiCo)
  • iAshgar (Video short/product project of CoptiCo)
  • Shishette (Video short/product undertaking of CoptiCo)
  • "Jonnie Mashi" (Music video) (Original idea)
  • "Dam: Who are you" (Music video) (Screenplay)
  • Ajami (Writer)
  • The Truth (Video short) (Writer)

Actor

  • Fair Trade (Short)
  • The Buried Alive Videos (Short)
  • Ajami
  • Shalosh Ima'ot

Producer

  • Affix (Video Short)
  • CoptiCo (Video short/product venture of CoptiCo)
  • iAshgar (Video short/product project of CoptiCo)
  • Shishette (Video short/product project of CoptiCo)
  • Ajami(Writer)
  • The Truth (Video short) (Writer)

References

  1. ^Armes, Roy ().

    New voices in Arab cinema. , Bloomington; Indianapolis&#;: Indiana University Press.

  2. ^ abBen Zvi, Tal (). Men in the Sun –The Artists, Men in the Sun (Exhibition Catalogue).

    Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.

  3. ^Ben Zvi, Tal ().

    Scandar Copti is a Palestinian filmmaker born and raised in Jaffa. After exiting his profession as a mechanical engineer to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker, his first full-length feature motion picture, Ajamiwhich he co-directed with Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jewish filmmaker, has won innumerable awards. Ajami is based on a genuine story about Palestinians who inhabit in Jaffa amid the growing Jewish metropolis of Tel Aviv in a neighbourhood that has been gentrified, marginalised and repressed. Like the Sao Paulo favela-based film, City of Godthe production uses non-actors in a setting where violence and conflict is a daily reality.

    Men in the Sun, Men in the Sun (Exhibition Catalogue). Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.

  4. ^Kishk, Abu (). Kufer Biri’m, Men in the Sun (Exhibition Catalogue). Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.
  5. ^Hammad, Sousan (28 September ).

    "Interview: Palestinian cinema Filmmaker Scandar Copti says cinema can help Palestinians construct their own history".

  6. ^גרינברג (Greenberg), שי (Shai) (19 March ). "במאי עג'מי סכנדר קובטי: "הכסף שקיבלתי מהמדינה זה נצחון פצפון של המיעוט הפלסטיני" (Scandar Copti; Ajami's director "The money I received from Israeli government is a tiny victory of Palestinian minority")".
  7. ^Saranga, David (25 May ) [May 10, ].

    "Ajami and the Oscars: Who Really Represents Israel?".

  8. ^"About".
  9. ^Vourlias, Christopher (10 November ).

    Copti is best known for co-directing the Academy Award nominated film Ajami and for being one of the founding forces at the Doha Film Institute in His "Singular Drama" workshops help filmmakers work with non-professional actors and non-actors learn the craft. He admits he wants to "connect people to the local people and with the resources that we have here in terms of talent. I caught up with the filmmaker to interview him for my piece on cinema in the Gulf featured in Shawati' Abu Dhabi.

    "Palestinian Filmmaker Scandar Copti's Israel-Set Family Drama 'Happy Holidays' Wins Thessaloniki Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 10 November

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