Highlight Films Israel Blog: April 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Christian location clips in archive

Footage available for licensing from the Highlight Archive: Footage and ready made clips of Christian locations in Israel, such as Nazareth, Bethlehem, etc. Contact archive@highlight.co.il for screeners and more information.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

video production services in Israel, The West Bank and Gaza

Highlight Films offers full 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 crews, equipment and facilities. our experienced fixers handle all aspects of news and documentary film productions in any location including camera crews, arranging for interviews and clearing locations, editing facilities and satellite uplink services, transportation, security and so forth.

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

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Highlight closed for Israeli Independence Day

The Highlight offices will be closed Wednesday April 29th in observation of Israel's 61st Birthday. Please email info@highlight.co.il for more information and for urgent matters call 972 52 6850000.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Dead sea film at Tel Aviv's copro

Highlight's upcoming documentary, Dead Sea Dying, will be presented to commissioning editors at the Tel Aviv coproductions forum at the end of May. For more about the film click here.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Aerial filming days in Israel:coming soon

We are planning several shooting sessions of aerial fliming from helicopters in June all over Israel. Please contact us if you are interested in a specific location or check our archive for the cataloged stock footage. Email archive@highlight.co.il
for more information.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

TV and video production services available in Gaza

Highlight Films provides all news and video production services from Gaza: Camera crews, producers, satellite uplink services, live positions, tape playout facilities and FTP upload from Gaza City. We have access to all parts of the Gaza Strip and local English-speaking fixers available for contact and reports. Please email info@highlight.co.il for any questions or booking production services in Gaza.

After hours phone: +97252-6850000

Thursday, April 23, 2009

New HD editing suite at Highlight

We have purchased another High Definition edit suite – the first of its kind in the West Bank. Avid Adrenaline HD, capable of editing full HD footage for features, documentaries, musci videos and anything else.For more information about editing post production services in the West Bank email info@highlight.co.il

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Production Services for the Papal Visit in the Holy LandFor

The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the Holy Land, Highlight Films is providing fixers, coordinators, camera crews and uplinks – available from Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Sea of Galilee, Nazareth and other locations.Also available – a news report about the preparations for the Pope's visit – to be ready three days before his arrival to Israel.More information about our production services click here
Contact: info@highlight.co.il

Sunday, April 19, 2009

New in our stock footage archive: Jerusalem in Easter

The latest addition to the Highlight Films archive is professional footage filmed in the Old City of Jerusalem during Easter 2009. We filmed around the Via Dolorosa, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and other Christian locations in Jerusalem. All footage was taken with our Sony HDW-F900R camera, and the picture format is 1080/25p.
The Highlight Films High Definition stock footage library presents hundreds of hours of high quality footage of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and other locations in the Middle East. Highlight Films licenses footage to TV networks, production companies, advertising agencies and commercial clients.

For more information please visit our Archive pages or email archive@highlight.co.il

Kasztner film Israeli premiere on Holocaust memorial day

Channel 8 (Noga) will broadcast 'Killing Kaster' the documentray about Israel Kastner, directed by Gaylen Ross on HOT Channel 8 on Yom Hashoah or Holocoust Memorial Day.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

New in Archive: Israel Military footage

As part of re-arranging and adding footage to our stock footage archive, the Highlight Films archive team is now offering a variety of stock footage of military activity. In addition to historical footage from the 1940's, we are licensing footage of the 1980's intifada, 1990's in Gaza Strip and the West bank, footage from the second Lebanon War, High Definition footage of the 2009 Gaza Operation and various categories of non-specific military footage: Tanks, infantry training, air force bombers and air force fighter planes, helicopters, anti missile defense systems and so forth.

For more information please visit our Archive pages or email archive@highlight.co.il

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Bahad-1 now in pre-sales for international broadcast

Highlight is now offering BAHAD-1, the unprecedented docu-reality series inside the IDF's officers course for pre-sales to international broadcasters. Learn more about this upcoming reality series now in production and contact noam@highlight.co.il for more information or sales inquiries.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Getting Ready for coverage of the Obama visit to Israel

Following Haaretz' exclusive news about US President's Obama visit to Israel and the West Bank in June, Highlight Films is getting ready for the coverage of the US President's visit to Israel. We will have five High Definition crews covering the events in both Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, and will offer interested reporters and producers a wide range of TV news and video production services, from production coordinators, permits and logistics, transportation, editing and satellite feed uplink services, and other services.

For reservations and more info contact info@highlight.co.il. We will have more updates on our websites in the next weeks.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Passover office hours

In observation of the Passover holiday, Highlight's office will be closed Tuesday April 14 and Wednesday April 15. We will be checking email bookings, but if something is urgent please call 972 52 6850000. Email info@highlight.co.il for inquiries. Happy Holidays!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Digital Signage Footage of Israel

The Highlight Films archive team is now offering the entire Highlight Films HD footage archive for licensing to Digital Signage platforms around the world. We have hundreds of excellent HD footage, both aerial and ground, available royalty-free.

Please visit the Digital Signage section of the site.
Feel free to email our archive team for quotes and further information.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Holy Fire ceremony - Camera crews and satellite uplink service

The Holy Fire Ceremony will take place on Saturday, April 18, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Highlight Films provides HD and SD camera crews to cover the event, as well as satellite uplink from the church and filming permits.

For more information email info@highlight.co.il

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

50% off of all archive footage

Highlight is currently running a special on archive footage in our archive library of footage from Israel and the Middle East. All orders placed until July 2009 will be 50% off of the regular price. This means great footage is now very affordable but only for a limited time. Email archive@highlight.co.il for pricing and screeners. Check out Higlight's HD and SD ground, aerial and undewater archive here.

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