THE CAMERA OF DOCTOR MORRIS

TUES, 12/5, 1:00pm, 73 min BAY STREET THEATER

Directors Itamar Alcalay and Meital Zvieli via Zoom for Q&A

Directors: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli
Producers: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli
Editors: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli
Cinematographer: Dr. Reginald Morris

For decades, Dr. Morris filmed his family. Their lives were captured on 8mm - years of births and deaths, joys and tragedies, dramas and quiet days spent in the sun - a strange British bubble all unfolding in the heat of the Israeli desert. Long after his death, the footage is rediscovered, along with the shattering story of his two young daughters. Through the archives combined with recounting from Morris family members themselves, their unusual and absorbing story unfolds.

Itamar Alcalay is a director, editor, writer, and producer. He directed two docu-series including Dancing With Tears in My Eyes and Off Season. He also directed three documentary films: Stefan Braun, Four Years of Night, and the short film Pomegranate Flower.

Meital Zvieli has over 20 years of experience as a freelance editor, screenwriter, director, and television format developer for all Israeli broadcast channels. Most notably, Meital was the Head of Research for the animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, a Golden Globe and Cesar winner for Best Foreign Film and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. She also directed Adrenaline, a docu-series examining Israelis' struggle with technology's takeover of everyday life.