Israel premiere of BAHAD-1

Highlight Films' new TV series, BAHAD-1, will premiere in the Tel Aviv Cinemateque on July 23, 2009. The first ever TV broadcast of the first episode will take place on Channel 2, Israel, on Wednesday July 29 at prime time. The commissioning broadcaster, Reshet, plans a special programme that will include a live studio discussion following the transmission of the first episode.

BAHAD-1 follows the Israeli army combat officers course. The Highlight Films crews joined the young cadets for seven months of training in the Israeli Negev desert, in the occupied territories, in the northern front and at the Golan Heights.
The Israeli version of BAHAD-1 is a five one-hours series, presented and narrated by senior military correspondent Roni Daniel.

Highlight Films is now producing the international version of BAHAD-1, a 90 minutes documentary film which will be available for international sales by the end of the year.

BAHAD-1 is the first Israeli production to be filmed and edited in High Definition, and the first time ever for a TV production to extensively access the combat officers course, one of the renowned military sanctuaries in Israel.

For more information about this exciting production, please contact info@highlight.co.il

HD cameras rental in Israel

Highlight Films offers professional High Definition cameras for rental in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and throughout other areas of the Middle East. Our camera sets range from the smaller Sony EX-1 and Sony EX-3 to Panasonic Varicam, Panasonic HDX900, Sony XDCAM 350 and Sony HDCAM F900R.
We rent cameras with or without HD lenses.
In addition, fully equipped camera crews are available in all the areas we operate in.
For more information contact info@highlight.co.il

Financial reports form Israel for TV and web news departments

Highlight Films provides all production services and facilities for financial news reports for TV and web news departments. We provide production services in Israel for some of the world's leading news providers, among them Time.com, Newsweek.com, Bloomerg tv and many others. Our researchers and coordinators can provide access to interviews, data, analysts and any other financial or economic angle. We have camera crews in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, as well as editing, post production and FTP and satellite uplink facilities in Israel and the West Bank.

For more information or quotes contact info@highlight.co.il

Video production serivces in Israel - One Stop Shop!

Highlight Films offers video production services in Israel, The West Bank and Gaza: We provide a one-stop solution for visiting productions or producers interested in hiring local camera crews, equipment and facilities.
our experienced fixers handle all aspects of news and documentary productions in any location including camera crews, arranging for interviews and clearing locations, editing and post production facilities and satellite uplink services, transportation, security and so forth.

Contact info@highlight.co.il for more info.

Dead Sea to New 7 Wonders Competition

The Dead Sea will make the list of candidates for the new "Seven Wonders of the World" competition, following the Palestinian submission, added last night to the Israeli and the Jordanian ones. The New7Wonders Foundation, which is behind the New7Wonders campaigns, has the express aim of undertaking documentation and conservation works of monuments worldwide under the motto: "OUR HERITAGE IS OUR FUTURE".
While the nomination and possible selection of the Dead Sea is not directly related to Highlight Films documentary coproduction "Dead Sea Dying", we will obviously deal with tourism, health issues and other aspects of the Dead Sea. In the next few months we will launch and maintain a dedicated web site of the Dead Sea Dying production. If you are interested in getting updates about the production, please use this link to email us.

Translation services in video and film productions in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza

Highlight Films provides translation services for Israel and Palestine (both the West Bank and Gaza) for film and video productions . Our services include simultaneous translation in interviews, non-simultaneous translation, logging and translating interviews as well as archive materials.
We can translate from Hebrew and Arabic to English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Japanese and Chinese.
For more information contact info@highlight.co.il

Film productions in Israel: production services, equipment and crew

In addition to our extensive video equipment, which includes six professional Sony and Panasonic HD cameras and all required accessories, Highlight Films provides all the necessary crew members and equipment for 35mm and 16mm film productions: cameras, lenses, grip and all required accessories.
Please check out our film production services for more information, or contact us for more info and quotes.

Next archive shoot: Land of the Bible

The Highlight Films archive team is now preparing the next archive filming session, to be used primarily by our customers looking for original, high quality, high definition footage. The next shoot will take place on the second week of July and will focus on the theme of "Land of the Bible". We will capture some of Israel's fascinating locations untouched by modernism, including open landscapes in the vicinity of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, mountains of the Galilee and several locations in the Negev desert. All footage will be filmed with our HDW-F900R Sony HD camera. Format: 16:9, 1080/25p.

For screeners, quotes and more information - please contact our archive team.

Madonna and Leonard Cohen to Israel: Book news production services ahead of time!

Highlight Films is getting ready for the two biggest musical events of the summer:
Madonna will be giving two concerts in Tel Aviv: on September 1 and 2, 2009.
Leonard Cohen will give one concert on September 24 in the Ramat Gan football stadium, and two days later, on September 26, in the Culture Center of Ramallah.
Our production crews will prepare news reports on demand, covering the arrival of both artists to Israel, the preparations to the concerts and behind the scenes footage as will be available shortly before and during the concerts.
We will have SD and HD camera crews available as well as our experienced Israeli and Palestinian fixers on location. As usual, we will provide all necessary production services in Israel and Palestine.
For more information and quotes please email our Tel Aviv operation center.

The languages we speak

Following requests from Spanish-speaking producers in Spain and South America, we have recently added a Spanish section to our website.

Highlight Films provides fixers, production coordinators and camera crews speaking the following languages:
English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew.
For any additional information please email info@highlight.co.il

MEDITARRANEO - new documentary film in production

Highlight Films announces the beginning of a new documentary film: MEDITARRANEO, a film by Eytan Nadel, follows three fishermen from Mediterranean countries: Morocco, Italy and Israel. Like thousands of other fishermen, they deal with a rapidly changing Mediterranean, reacting to Man's interference with nature. These changes affect the people living near it, eating its fauna and assuming it will last forever…
The project will be presented later this year in order to form an international co-production.
More about our films in production
For more inofrmation: info@highlight.co.il

Variety of HD cameras for rent in Israel

Highlight Films is the only production company in Israel and Palestine that has its own Sony and Panasonic high definition cameras sets. In addition to renting our HD cameras to visiting international TV and video productions, we provide professional camera crews and all the required production services for documentary films, TV and web reports, corporate productions and other video projects taking place in the Middle East area.

We are different from Israel's equipment rental houses by the fact that we work in the entire Middle East, including the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza, Jordan and other countries in the area; Our cameras are frequently serviced in the best technical facilities and used by a small number of cameramen and operators; we provide all the additional technical services in-house - our technical department and post production teams take on many of the filming projects for dubbing, format conversion etc'.

For any additional information and for production quotes, please contact info@highlight.co.il or call us.

Time Lapse sequences in the Highlight Films archive

The Highlight Films archive team is adding more HD time lapse video clips. The sequences filmed in Israel include urban and natural settings, sunsets, sunrises and Jerusalem's Holy places. Screeners are now online in our archive.
Please email archive@highlight.co.il for inquiries about specific time lapses you would like to request, as our archive team is taking orders.
Learn more about Highlight's archive High Definition footage library of Israel and the Middle East.

New: teleprompter available for our camera crews in Israel and the West bank

The Highlight Films production crews in Israel and Palestine are now equipped with teleprompters for news reports and reporters / presenters pieces to camera.
We have recently purchased two PROMPTER PEOPLE teleprompter - a 15 inch and a 17 inch devices. The new prompters work with all our cameras, high definition and standard definition.
The teleprompters will be available for our customers in Israel and the West Bank only. We plan to purchase another prompter for our Gaza clients in the next few weeks.
Find out more about our production services in Israel and Palestine.
For more information please email info@highlight.co.il

100 years old Tel Aviv: HD footage available

Highlight Films offers a rich selection of High Definition footage of Tel Aviv for filmmakers, TV reporters and producers looking for archive footage to be included in films and reports dealing with the history of 100 years old Tel Aviv.
Our footage includes HD aerial shots (from a helicopter) of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, as well as visuals of the city center, beaches and various locations and activities.
For more information about available footage and quotes please contact our archive.