Elly Kenner
Elly Kenner (Hebrew: אלי קנר) is an Israeli film editor, director, and producer born on October 7, 1948, in Jerusalem. He studied psychology and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned a Master’s degree in Film from Boston University.
In 1976, his short film Falling was praised by The Boston Globe and The Los Angeles Times and won a Cinematography Award from the American Society of Cinematographers. Kenner then moved to Hollywood to work with the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women. His second feature, The Black Room, was released in the United Kingdom in 1983. He returned to Jerusalem in 1984 and directed Hello Jerusalem, a series shown in the United States.
In 1989 he made an episode of Mabat Sheni, titled “No Free Enterprise,” which received positive reviews. He later became a partner in the Jerusalem advertising agency Sheta and produced Visions of the Holy Land. His six-part Esoterica Jerusalem examines healing and channeling; one chapter was shown at the Tours Film Festival in France in January 1992. The newspaper BaMachane described him as “Atlantis’s Ambassador to Israel.”
In 1992 he produced The Sixth Dimension, a weekly program about mysticism and alternative medicine on Israel’s Channel 2. In 1994 he directed a short film for the Israel Film Service about the peace agreement with Jordan, which was shown in schools. In 1995 he produced and directed Mi Ha’Abba? (Who is the Father?), starring Dubi Gal, Nitza Shaul, Uri Banai, and Maria Ovanov; it was invited to the Shanghai International Film Festival in 1997. From 1988 to 2011, Kenner was a news editor for the Jerusalem bureau of France 2.
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