Elida Gera

Elida Gera (Hebrew: אלידע גרא) (1932, New York - May 10, 2017, Megadim) was an Israeli film director, dancer and choreographer. She is the first Israeli female film director who released a feature film (Before Tomorrow [he], black and white, 1969). [1][2][3][4] The second one is Michal Bat-Adam with her Moments released ten years later.

Gera was born in the United States in 1931. She studied dance at Juilliard School, performed off-Broadway and later worked as choreographer. She became interested in cinema and studied directing and photography in Canada. There she married an Israeli artist and stage designer Zvi Gera [he] and the two had three sons. In 1964 they emigrated to Israel and settled in Or Yehuda. [4]

In 2013 her restored film Before Tomorrow was screened at the International Women's Film Festival In Rehovot.[2]

References

  1. ^ Nirit Anderman [he], מתה אלידע גרא, הבמאית הראשונה של הקולנוע הישראלי (Elida Gera, the first director of Israeli cinema, has died), Haaretz, May 11, 2017
  2. ^ a b "She’s the boss. A decade of women’s movies is celebrated at the International Women’s Film Fest", The Jerusalem Post, October 16, 2013
  3. ^ לפני מחרבמאי: אלידע גרא › 1969 / 78 דקות / עברית, שחור-לבן, 1:1.66, 35 מ"מ,
  4. ^ a b Smadar Zamir, "מדוע הושכח הסרט הראשון שביימה אישה בישראל?" ("Why was the first film directed by a woman in Israel forgotten?"), Haaretz, June 13, 2018