May
31
2008
Highlight Films can now offer camera crew, producers and satelite uplink services throughout the Middle East.
We have been working extensively with several news services providors in Baghdad and Beirut throughout the last five years, but now our area of operation includes Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Amman.
These services are oferred to our regular news and current affairs customers.
Click here for more information about our news production services in Israel and Palestine.
Contact: info@highlight.co.il
May
30
2008
Blair interview to TIME - on the time.com website
The Highlight Films filming crew produced last week’s interview of former UK Prime-minster Tony Blair to TIME.
The interview, shot by our cameraman Ramez Kazmuz, is now online on time.com - click here to watch.
Highlight Films provides news production services to broadcasters and webcasters. Our filming crews are available in Israel and the West Bank.
Click here for more details about our news production services.
May
29
2008
Highlight Films is currently in production of two new news reports. One will be covering the debate over the Golan in relation to the current headlines of potential peace negotiations with Syria and the other will be dealing with Israeli high tech comanies that are revolutionizing the idea of high tech security and survelilance technology. These reports will be available to broadcasters and online portals worldwide. Learn more about Highlight’s news reports in production here and email info@highlight.co.il for more info.
May
28
2008
This friday, Highlight Films will be pitching our new documentary project, Dear God, to theTel Aviv Coproduction forum which will be attended by producers and editors from all over the world. Find out about Dear God and check out our other documentary projects here.
May
27
2008
Highlight Films will be filming new news reports from around Israel next week featuring Golan Heights residents, both Druze and Jews, debating the fate of the area and potential costs of peace with Syria and The Pentacost religous ceremony near the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem for Shavout. Contact us at info@highlight.co.il for info and check out more about production of news reports from Israel and the Palestinian West Bank here.
May
26
2008
Highlight Films will be filming a new series of HD ground beauty shots of Jerusalem including The Temple Mount, Mount of Olives, Mount Scopus and Via Delarosa. This footage will be available shortly and will be in the highest quality HD format available. Check out more about our archive here and email archive@highlight.co.il for screeners and info.
May
25
2008
Highlight Films and Director Gaylen Ross are finishing up production on the upcoming documentary film, The Persecution and Assassination of Dr. Israel Kasztner, about a Jew, Kastner, who made a controversial deal with Eichman and the Nazis to save Jews from their death. The film has been written about by Reuters and featured on Ynet. Read the article here.
May
24
2008
Following the latest announcmement sof Israeli, Syrian and Turkish officials about the ongoing peace negotiations between Israel and Syria, we have been approached by producers and broadcasters interested in Golan Heights ground and aerial footage. The Highlight FIlms archive has both grounnd and aerial footage filmned in DigiBeta and DVCAM formats, and plan to complete High Definition aerial filming of this area within the next 3-4 weeks.
HD ground footage will be taken on the last week of June.
More about our stock footage archive
Contact our archive for any questions regarding our available footage.
May
23
2008
As of today, the Highlight Films website will be updated daily with the leading news stories of the day. The daily update will take place every day at 1400 GMT.
Link: http://www.highlight.co.il/pages/today-news-stories
Today’s news:
Date: Friday, May 22, 2008
Israel’s Prime-minister Ehud Olmert was investigated today by the police for the second time. Olmert is suspected of having received large sums of money from Moris Talansky, an American fund-raiser.
Five Hamas gunmen were killed today by Israel Defense Forces troops in the southern Gaza Strip. The gunmen were killed by an Israeli helicopter, after they have fired and injured an Israeli soldier by an anti-tank missile. Highlight Films crews are located all over Israel and the Palestinian areas. We monitor the leading news stories in Israel and Palestine and mobilize our stand-by producers and camera crews accordingly.
Check out our news production services in Israel and the West Bank.
To book a crew email us or call the Tel Aviv Headquarters at +972-3-6168611.
After hours: +972-52-6850000
May
22
2008
By the beginning of June 2008 we plan to begin filming broadcast pilots and training sessions for news reporters from Israel the West Bank. The reporters will prepare news reports for our regular as well as special reports for worldwide distribution, in both Israel and the West Bank.
Our reporters will produce reports in English, German, Arabic, Russian, Spanish and Hebrew.
Production will be under the responsibility of the local office - Tel Aviv, Ramalla and Jerusalem.
For more information about our news production services please contact info@highlight.co.il