{"id":44734,"date":"2018-09-09T03:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=44734"},"modified":"2018-09-09T03:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:07:34","slug":"the-cakemaker-will-be-israels-entry-into-the-foreign-oscar-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/the-cakemaker-will-be-israels-entry-into-the-foreign-oscar-race\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Cakemaker&#8217; will be Israel&#8217;s entry into the foreign Oscar race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; &#8220;The Cakemaker,&#8221; a successful indie film involving a gay and straight love triangle, will be Israel&#8217;s entry into the 2019 Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The film, written and directed by Ofir Raul Graizer, won six awards at Israel&#8217;s version of the Oscars, the Ophir Awards, on Thursday, including for best picture.<\/p>\n<p>The best film winner at the Ophirs automatically becomes Israel&#8217;s Oscar entry. Despite having several films make it onto the best foreign language film shortlist, Israel has never won the award.<\/p>\n<p>The rights for a U.S. remake of &#8220;The Cakemaker&#8221; have already been sold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always wanted to do a story about people who don\u2019t want to be defined by political, sexual and national identities,\u201d Graizer told JTA in June. \u201cThese are people who say \u2018I don\u2019t care about these identities, I am who I am.\u2019&#8221;<\/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=\"%27The%20Cakemaker%27%20will%20be%20Israel%27s%20entry%20into%20the%20foreign%20Oscar%20race\";<\/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":[7139],"tags":[1574,9596,8790,8795,7332,8788,749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44734"}],"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=44734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44735,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44734\/revisions\/44735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}