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.

Technical Production services in Israel and the West Bank

Highlight Films provides technical video services in both High Definition and Standard Definition. We have dubbing facilities, format converters, digitizing systems and everything necessary to provide full technical services for video productions in Israel and The West Bank.
For more information contact info@highlight.co.il

New documentary projects in development

The Highlight Films development team is now working on several new and exciting projects:

- Dead Sea Dying: The Jordanian - Palestinian - Israeli coproduction is moving into a higher gear with the interest fo several leading broadcasters to join the coproduction. We plan to complete the business structure of the film and begin shooting in September 2009.

- Holiest - currently in development. The history and current state of Temple Mount, Jerusalem. Due to the sensitivity of the issue we will not reveal any further details on the web, but producers and broadcasters interested in joining this exciting documentary shall contact the film producer, Noam Shalev.

- BHD-1 - The Israeli army officers course. We are now in the final phases of editing the Israeli version, which is 5 * 48 minutes, to be transmitted by Channel 2 Israel in August 2009. The international version - a 90 minutes documentary film - will be released by October 2009.


And more projects, to be released soon....

For more information: info@highlight.co.il

Jerusalem: Production services for documentary films

The Highlight Films production crews are now working on several American and European documentary film productions taking place in Jerusalem throughout July and August. As far as access to locations and activities in Jerusalem, everything is accessible during the summer months, however we are facing difficulties in coordinating experts for interviews in the month of August, as many Israelis are leaving the country.
As far as camera crews and all other production services - we are working as usual, year long.
So if you plan to shoot in Jerusalem this summer - please make sure to begin preparations as soon as possible. We will be glad to advise you on availabilities, costs and requirements in the early phases of production.

For more information email info@highlight.co.il

Email problems - pleas euse alternate mail address

We are experiencing email problems in the last two hours. Our IT people are dealing with it now, but problems may continue in the next few hours. Until this news post is removed, please CC all emails sent to the highlight.co.il mailboxes to noam.shalev2@gmail.com
Thank you!

News reports from Israel: The Netanyahu address

Israel Prime-minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to deliver his speech tomorrow, Sunday June 14, at 1730 GMT. The speech will be significant for Israel's national agenda and will directly influence US-Israel relationships, as it will address US President Obama's plans for continuing the peace process in the Middle East.
Highlight Films produces news reports per demand and providing news production services for journalists and producers who are interested in focusing on the event , following the speech and including expert analysis and background.

To book a camera crew and production services please email us or call +972-52-6850000

High Definition Production Services in the Middle East

 Highlight Films is the only production services company in Israel providing all the solutions for HD documentary film productions in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. 
In the last years we have successfully completed dozens of American, British, German, French, Canadian, Japanese and other productions in Israel and throughout the Middle East.
For more information and quotes please contact info@highlight.co.il

News production services and camera crews in Israel

 Highlight Films continues to provide production services for news reports from Israel.
We have experienced producers as well as professional camera crews throughout Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
Our editing and post production facilities are in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramalla, Bethlehem and Gaza City, and satellite feed uplink as well as FTP upload can take place from any of these locations.
For more information contact info@highlight.co.il

The latest additions to the Highlight Films footage archive

These are the latest additions to our stock footage archive:
Tel Aviv urban life - people at city center, traffic, shops, travelling shots in the city, sea shore and public beaches.
Summer outdoor shots - crops, long shots of field, sand dunes, farmers working, irrigation. 
Airport - Airplanes landing and taking off from the Tel Aviv airport.

Archive screeners will be available online in a few days. 

TH efootage was filmed in HDCAM format, 1080/25P
All our archive footage is available for licensing to interested TV producers, production copanies and web sites 
For more information and quotes please email our archive team.

Production fixers and coordinators in Israel, West Bank and Gaza

As part of our ongoing production service in Israel, The West Bank and Gaza, Highlight Films offers our experienced fixers to handle all aspects of news and documentary productions in any location in the region. Our fixers will coordinate camera crews, arrange for interviews and clear locations, coordinate editing facilities and satellite feed uplink services, take care of transportation, security and so forth. Languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, German, Arabic, Hebrew.

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

Feature film production services in Israel: 35mm, HD

We continue to provide a wide range of production services for international feature film productions taking place in Israel and the Palestinian West Bank. Most of the productions we handle are using high definition cameras, although in the last three years we managed six productions using 35mm film.
Although Highlight Films focuses mostly on high definition video, we are very experienced with film productions and are working on a regular basis with film professionals, film facility houses, casting agencies and other businesses serving the film industry.

For more information about film productions in Israel and Palestine, please email us.

Video production services for tourists in Israel

In addition to our recently launched Israelflicks platform, Highlight Films continues to provide videographers, camera crews and all required production services for families or groups interested in filming their visits to Israel. In the past years we have covered visits of dozens of missions, delegations and tour groups of various origins, and we continue to do so on a regular basis. Some of our customers require full production processes, from filming to editing and DVD or web mastering, and others are just interested in gathering footage of their visit for future use.
We are ready to offer efficient, professional and reliable service in any location in Israel.
For more details and a quote please contact info@highlight.co.il

Highlight Films on YouTube

The Highlight Films archive team continues to upload screeners to YouTube. For an updated list of all our footage screeners, please type highlightfilmsisrael in the YouTube search box or click here. Our archive footage is licensed to broadcasters, production companies, advertising agencies, public organizations and commercial companies for various uses - films, TV programs, videos and websites. Below, you can see some of our beautiful Israel sunsets.




To contact our archive team click here.

Dedicated website for production services in israel and Palestine

DEDICATED WEBSITE FOR PRODUCTION SERVICES IN ISRAEL, GAZA AND THE WEST BANK


The Highlight Films web team continues to develop FILMINISRAEL, the new Highlight Films website dedicated to the variety of production services in Israel and Palestine (both the West Bank and Gaza). This is another phase in separating the various services and activities of the company's main website.

The new website presents updated content regarding production services in both Israel and Palestine, and is added to the Highlight Films specialist High Definition website - www.hd-israel.com

The next phase will re-brand Highlight Films' archive in www.israel-footage.com, currently re-directing to the main website.

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Royalty Free stock archive footage of Israel

The Highlight Films archive continues its special 50% discount on all archive footage bought before July 1, 2009. Our footage is licensed to films, TV programs, videos, presentations and web sites.
The Highlight Films archive is the largest High Definition (HD) archive of stock footage of Israel. We have more than 1400 hours of standard definition footage and more than 300 hours of HD footage, including aerial footage of Israel's historical and religious locations, ground footage of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Tel Aviv and many other locations, time lapse sequences and underwater footage.

For mor information check out our Archive section or contact archive@highlight.co.il