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The BAFTA Winner
Congratulations to Maaleh graduate Shulamit Lifshitz and animator Oriel Berkovitch for winning first place in the prestigious BAFTA (British Academy) award for live action in the student competition with the film “Girl No. 60427”.
This is the first time that a film representing the State of Israel reached the finals of the competition. Maaleh is proud to be the only film school in Israel to ever win a BAFTA award!
The film combines live action cinematography and animation, and is based on the director's relationship with her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor who wrote a journal about her experiences in a DP camp. When announcing their decision, the judges stated, “a deep and emotional film, which brings to extraordinary artistic expression the experiences of the third generation of Holocaust survivors."