The Highlight Films archive team has filmed a new series of HD (high definition) traveling shots of the northern Dead Sea, the Judea Desert, Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv urban landscape. The shots were filmed at all hours of the day. This superb footage is available in our archive for producers and channel executives who wish to license it.
Read more about Highlight Films’ archive collection of Israel and email archive@highlight.co.il for any questions or quotes.

The Dead Sea will make the list of candidates for the new “Seven Wonders of the World” competition, following the Palestinian submission, added last night to the Israeli and the Jordanian ones. The New7Wonders Foundation, which is behind the New7Wonders campaigns, has the express aim of undertaking documentation and conservation works of monuments worldwide under the motto: “OUR HERITAGE IS OUR FUTURE”.
While the nomination and possible selection of the Dead Sea is not directly related to Highlight Films documentary coproduction “Dead Sea Dying”, we will obviously deal with tourism, health issues and other aspects of the Dead Sea. In the next few months we will launch and maintain a dedicated web site of the Dead Sea Dying production. If you are interested in getting updates about the production, please use this link to email us.

Following the successful presentation of Dead Sea Dying in Tel Aviv Copro last week, The Jordanian - Palestinian - Israeli documentary coproduction will expand to include European and north-American partners. In the next few weeks we will decide upon who will take part of this exciting production, scheduled to begin filming shortly around the Dead Sea.

For more information about this production please email info@highlight.co.il

The first presentation of “Dead Sea Dying”, the first ever Jordanian - Palestinian - Israeli documentary film co-production, will take place on Wednesday May 27 in Tel Aviv. The documentary project was selected as one of several international projects for participation in the Israeli COPRO pitching event, taking place this week in Tel Aviv.
Jordanian producer Khaled Haddad of Jordan Pioneers, Palestinian producer and director George Khleifi of Lilac Films and Israeli producer Noam Shalev of Highlight Films will present the project to commissioning editors and producers from around the world, gathering in Tel Aviv.

For more information about this project and other ongoing productions contact info@highlight.co.il

Highlight’s upcoming documentary, Dead Sea Dying, will be presented to commissioning editors at the Tel Aviv coproductions forum at the end of May. For more about the film click here.

Breaking news story - now in production.

Highlight is currently producing a TV report about two Palestinians who allegedly have stolen an ancient document from the 2nd century A. D. and attempted to sell it in Israel.

Highlight Films has special interview access as well as footage of the document.

More about the story:

The document, six inches by six inches (15 centimeters by 15 centimeters), contains 15 lines of Hebrew characters of a type also used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but is a legal text apparently unrelated to the more famous scrolls.

In this document, a widow named Miriam, daughter of Yaakov, legally transfers property to her late husband’s brother, said Amir Ganor, an archaeologist with the government department entrusted with fighting antiquities theft.

Dated to the 2nd century A.D., it is unique because it includes the names of Jewish villages and a date — “four years from the destruction of the house of Israel.” Ganor said that was likely an allusion to a Jewish revolt put down violently by Rome around 135 A.D. (Source: AP)

Read more about the story here and email info@highlight.co.il

Highlight Films provides full production services for film, video and television in the entire Dead Sea area, Massada and the Jordan River. In the last three years we have gathered exclusive, high quality footage of natural phenomena, landscapes, aerial views as well as underwater and sail-view Dead Sea footage. All footage is available in our stock footage archive. In addition, we continue to provide all required production services in the area in the territories of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. Our production teams include highly experienced camera crews, researchers, production coordinators and fixers. We can provide advise on locations, arrange all logistics, obtain filming permits, mange transportation and lodging in the area etc’. Highlight Films is the only production company in the Middle East operating regularly in Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. For more information please email info@highlight.co.il

Highlight’s upcoming documentary, Dead Sea Dying, will be presented to commissioning editors at the Tel Aviv coproductions forum at the end of May. For more about the film click here.

Highlight is currently producing the documentary ‘The Bottom of the World’ following the story of the Dead Sea in partenrship with a Palestinian Director and a Jordanian production company. The film has been accepted to Tel Aviv’s co-production forum which will take place this May. For more info email info@highlight.co.il .