{"id":19962,"date":"2014-11-21T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=19962"},"modified":"2014-11-21T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:18:08","slug":"two-israeli-films-make-finalists-list-for-best-short-film-at-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/two-israeli-films-make-finalists-list-for-best-short-film-at-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Israeli films make finalists list for best short film at Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Israel Hayom\/Exclusive to JNS.org) &#8212; Two Israeli films have made the list of 10 finalists for best short film at next February\u2019s 87th Academy Awards (Oscars).<\/p>\n<p>On finalist is the 40-minute \u201cAya\u201d\u2014directed by Michal Brezis and Oded Binnun, and starring Sarah Adler and Ulrich Thomsen\u2014the story of a woman who mistakenly picks up the wrong person from the airport, yet the man decides to maintain the pretense.<\/p>\n<p>The other Israeli finalist is \u201cSummer Vacation,\u201d or \u201cChofesh Hagadol\u201d in Hebrew. The 22-minute film was directed by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon, and stars Yiftach Klein, Oded Leopold, and Hilla Vidor. In the film, a family goes on vacation to a beautiful sunny island, yet one member simply wants to get away from it all. The film contended at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The final listings for the 2015 Oscars will be announced on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Two%20Israeli%20films%20make%20finalists%20list%20for%20best%20short%20film%20at%20Oscars\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6380,6381,6382,1574,8781,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19963,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19962\/revisions\/19963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}