Gidi Avivi is an Israeli film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, the founder of Vice Versa Films  and a film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 director.

Education and Career

Avivi holds a Master's degree

Master's degree

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 in Cinema Studies from New York University

New York University

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 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 degree in Film and Television from Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

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Avivi was Head of the Music Department and a music programmer at the IDF radio station; additionally, Avivi was also the popular music critic for Haaretz

Haaretz

Haaretz is Israel's oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew and English in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the International Herald Tribune. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet...

from 1994 to 2006.
Between 1994 and 1998 Avivi created (with Yoav Kutner

Yoav Kutner

Yoav Kutner , is an acclaimed Israeli music editor, TV and radio presenter, who has significantly promoted performers ranging from Mashina to Radiohead. The 'Little Man from the Radio', is rather, a passionate hero calling for the love of new music.-Life:Yoav Kutner was born in Jerusalem, Israel on...

, Ami Amir, Arik Bernstein and Gabriel Bibliowicz) a 12-part documentary series about the history of Israeli rock music, named “Sof Onat Hatapuzim” ("End of the Orange Season").
In 2006 Avivi produced two documentary films: Bekummernis (with Ido Sela) and The Cahana Sisters (with Amir Harel and Gilad Melzer). In 2008 Avivi produced (with Yael Biron and Dror Nahum) a documentary about Ehud Banai

Ehud Banai

-Early life:Banai, of Persian Jewish and Afghan Jewish descent, was born in Jerusalem to the actor Yaakov Banai, the eldest of the Banai siblings, and moved to Givataim at the age of four.-Music career:...

 and The Refugees - On The Move.In 2011 Avivi founded Vice Versa Films, a production company

Production company

A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...

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EPOS – The International Art Film Festival

Since 2009, Avivi, with Micky Laron, is the Festival Director and the Artistic Director

Artistic director

An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

 of EPOS, the International Art Film Festival .The festival is an annual event based in Tel Aviv. In its inaugural year, the festival guests were Ben Lewis, Sheila Hayman and Rene Letzgus. In 2010 the festival guests were Percy Adlon

Percy Adlon

Percy Adlon is a German film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Café aka Out of Rosenheim.-Biography:...

, Galina Eevtushenko, Lionel Guedj, Yony Leyser, Tom Magill, Sam McClean, Sergey Ovcharov, Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer

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, Viktoria Petranyi, Kathie Russo, Helma Sanders-Brahms

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Helma Sanders-Brahms is a German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress.She studied acting then German and English. She first worked in TV and then trained as a film director with Sergio Corbucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini making a large number of films often commissioned by German...

, and Lucy Walker

Lucy Walker

Lucy Walker is a film director, mostly of theatrical feature documentaries. On January 25th, 2010 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Waste Land, which she directed.-Film career:...

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Filmography

2012

• Never Turn Your Back on Sparks (Working title, in development). Director: Pini Schatz; a documentary comedy about musical passions that focuses on fans of the "coolest underrated rock band in the world": Sparks
  Sparks (band)
  Sparks is an American rock and pop band formed in Los Angeles in 1968 by brothers Ron and Russell Mael , initially under the name Halfnelson...
  
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• This is Not a Holocaust Film (Working title, filming). Director: Leora Eisenstein; a documentary about the filmmaker's journey to Lviv
  Lviv
  Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
  
  , her family's hometown before World War II
  World War II
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2011

• Looking for Moshe Guez (Original title: Le'an Ne'elam Moshe Guez). Director: Avida Livny; a documentary about the filmmaker's search for the Israeli director Moshe Guez and his rarely seen feature film, The Angel was a Devil.
• Running Movie (Original title: Seret Ratz). Director: Omer Peled; a documentary about the Israeli long-distance runner Seteng Ayele
  Seteng Ayele
  Seteng Ayele is an Israeli long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.-Personal life:He is Jewish. He was an Ethiopian citizen until 1991 when he emigrated to Israel. He is also known as Haile Satayin, a variant of "Ayele Seteng"...
  
   (AKA Haile Satayin), the oldest marathon runner in the 2008 Summer Olympic in Beijing
  Beijing
  Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
  
   and his efforts to compete at the age of 55, in the 2012 Summer Olympics
  2012 Summer Olympics
  The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the "London 2012 Olympic Games", are scheduled to take place in London, England, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012...
  
   in London
  London
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2008

• On the Move (Original title: Hayav Lazuz). Director: Avida Livny; a film about courage, friendship and rock and roll
  Rock and roll
  Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
  
  , about Ehud Banai and Yossi Elefant, about the Israeli rock band "The Refugees", and espcially about the passion for doing the right thing.

2006

• The Cahana Sisters (Original title: Haahayot Cahana). Director: Gilad Melzer; a group portrait that illuminates a unique and dramatic life journey of four sisters who had survived the death camps together during the Holocaust
  The Holocaust
  The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
  
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• Bekummernis. Director: Ido Sela; a personal documentary about the director's meetings with his family, friends and neighbors during a visit to kibbutz Kfar HaNassi
  Kfar HaNassi
  Kfar HaNassi is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located 35 km north of the Sea of Galilee, and 6 km east of Rosh Pinna , it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.-History:...
  
   - a magical childhood landscape in a kibbutz
  Kibbutz
  A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
  
   that was transformed into a scene of crime.

1998

• End of the Orange Season (Original title: Sof Onat Hatapuzim); an in-depth documentary series that explores the history of Israeli rock
  Israeli rock
  Israeli rock is rock music created by Israeli bands and singers.-The development of Israeli rock in the 1960s:Israel's initial attitude toward rock music was extremely negative. Israeli musicians of the time believed it was a trend that would soon pass...
  
   from the 1960s
  1960s
  The 1960s was the decade that started on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. It was the seventh decade of the 20th century.The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends across the globe...
  
   to the 1990s
  1990s
  File:1990s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space after it was taken up in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields and the USA Lexie in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War; The signing of the Oslo Accords on...
  
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External links

Vice Versa Films official website

Gidi Avivi at the Internet Movie Database

Internet Movie Database

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On The Move - Official Website

EPOS-The International Art Film Festival - Official Website