Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала, Japanese: デルス·ウザーラ; alternate US title: Dersu Uzala: The Hunter) is a 1975 joint Soviet-Japanese film production directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film won the Grand Prix at the Moscow Film Festival and the 1975 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is based on the 1923 memoir Dersu Uzala by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Sikhote-Alin region of Siberia over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century. The film is almost entirely shot outdoors in the ruggedly beautiful Siberian wilderness. As with most of Kurosawa’s work, each frame is carefully composed to form a dramatic picture. The film explores the theme of a native of the forests who is fully integrated into his environment, leading a style of life that will inevitably be destroyed by the advance of civilization. It is also about the growth of respect and deep friendship between two men of profoundly different backgrounds, and about the difficulty of coping with the loss of strength and ability that comes with old age. The film sold 20.4 million tickets in the Soviet Union and made .2 million in the US and Canada.
Between the 6th and the 11th of April, Edward McDougal, a renowned film director and producer from Chicago, Illinois taught a film production workshop in the Tiltan Graphic Design College. The college is situated in the downtown of Haifa, in the northern part of Israel. This college has a vision to teach it’s students graphic design and media and to connect the academic side with a feeling of the marketplace so that the students are leading in the design industry in Israel. The director of the college, Erez Issacharov, has gladly accepted the offer of having this workshop in his college, providing at least 3 classrooms, a photo studio with professional lighting and an editing suite with 12 iMac computers with latest DualCore Intel processors and Final Cut editing software. The computers were given to the college especially for the course by iDigital, Apple VAD (Value-Added Distributor) in Israel. Erez also has a vision of starting a film/editing/post production department in the college and is eager to continue this newly established connection with Edward McDougal and IRRTV to organize similar workshops in the future. Erez has noticed the “action” and excitement in the college during the workshop and is happy with this atmosphere that inspires his students to work hard and stay creative. Edward McDougal, who is a university professor and a film-maker, has been volunteering in many countries teaching film-making to students ranging from semi-proffessional amateurs to new …
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