Date
Monday, January 29, 2024 | 7:00 PM
In Partnership With:
ISRAEL IN FILM
A special Major Gifts experience ft. Guy Nattiv
UJA Major Gifts invites you for a special immersive experience of Israel in film, featuring a talk by Academy Award®-winning Israeli film director Guy Nattiv, and a never-before-seen presentation produced by the makers of the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit. Join us as we see Israel through a whole new lens and fall more in love with this incredible country and its enduring resilience.
We hope you join us for an evening of community, solidarity, and connection to our brothers and sisters in Israel—a thank-you to our philanthropic leaders for working with us to change lives in Israel and right here in Toronto.
Monday, January 29 at 7 PM
Lighthouse ArtSpace Toronto
1 Yonge Street
Cocktails & hors d'oeuvres
Kashrut observed
$54 per person
Registration for this event is now closed. If you are still interested in attending, please contact Inna at [email protected].
If you have any questions, please contact Inna at [email protected].
2023 UJA MAJOR GIFTS CHAIRS:
Darren Gottlieb
Perri Kirshenblatt
Simone Levine
Robert Schacter
EVENT COMMITTEE:
Zak & Michelle Goldman
Evan & Esther Green
Bernie Gropper & Elise Stern Gropper
This invitation is extended exclusively to UJA's Major Gifts donor families who contribute $10,000 or more to UJA’s Annual Campaign.
SPEAKER
Guy Nattiv
Guy Nattiv is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker from Israel. He is the director of Golda, the 2023 biographical drama film starring Helen Mirren as former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2019, Nattiv’s first American short film, Skin, won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. The feature version, also entitled Skin, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival to significant acclaim, where it won the International Critics Prize.
Before coming to the United States, Nattiv was a lauded director in Israel, where his first feature, Strangers, was in competition at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals in 2008. His second feature, The Flood, won the Generations Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012 and was nominated for six Ophir Awards, where it won Best Actor. Magic Men, his third feature, premiered at Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2014, and also won the Ophir Award for Best Actor.
In February 2023, it was announced that Nattiv will be co-directing a political thriller called Untitled Judo with Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Iran. This is the first time that Israeli and Iranian filmmakers are co-directing a feature together.
Nattiv currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and film producing partner Jaime Ray Newman, and their daughter.