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TIFF: Top 10 New Faces & Voices: #3. Samuel Maoz

Winning Venice Film Festival’s top prize is certainly proof that Samuel Maoz did something right with his first feature film – what he made was a moving, well-crafted anti-war film statement on a shoe-string budget. How shoe-string was the picture? No actual tanks were used for 99 percent of the film. Moaz stripes away any unnecessary details – this is a psychological profile without extra trimmings.

#3. Samuel Maoz

Winning Venice Film Festival’s top prize is certainly proof that Samuel Maoz did something right with his first feature film – what he made was a moving, well-crafted anti-war film statement on a shoe-string budget. How shoe-string was the picture? No actual tanks were used for 99 percent of the film. Moaz stripes away any unnecessary details – this is a psychological profile without extra trimmings.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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