JAFFE - Jewish Academy for Film Education

Master classes "Directing", "Editing directing"

Film director with a strong eight-year experience in creating various films in the film and advertising industries.
At this stage he creates commercials for leading world and Ukrainian companies: "Volkswagen", "Nestle", "Max Factor", "British American Tabacco", "Kyivstar", "Rud", "ALLO". Work

Filmography: "Circle" (short, thriller), "Mannequin" (short, mystical thriller), "Chupacabra ordinary ..." (short, children's drama), "Phantom" (short, horror film)

Master classes "Production", "Distribution"

Over 10+ years of work in the field of cinema under the guidance of Elijah, more than 100 projects have been implemented, including a master class by Oscar winner Guy Nattiv, an international conference on animation and computer graphics "CG Weekend", a car festival "FestInCar".

Festivals "BEST SCI FI", "BEST HORROR SHORTS", "BEST THRILLER SHORTS" visited 15+ countries.

He graduated from DTKHK (Dnipro) and NAKKKiM (Kyiv). He worked at the Franko Theater in Kyiv as an actor and deputy head of the theater troupe.

He is currently working as a second director.

Filmography: "Zakhar Berkut", "Watchtower", "Jura Korolevich" and others.

Trained in the team STUNTALOT, some of the stuntmen from this team starred in the movie "300 Spartans, the dawn of the empire."

He graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Regional Theater and Art College.
Works at the National Academic Drama Theater. I. Franko, starring in movies, commercials, TV series.

Filmography: "Lady Mayor", "Spirit of the Earth", "Wild Herd", "Sorochinskaya Fair", "Madcap", "Bankers", "Five Minutes to the Metro", "Orange Sky", "The Devil from Orly", "Karavaeva", "The Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno", "The Return of Mukhtar-3", "The Good Guys", "The Power of Attraction", "Two Sides of the Same Anna", "The Route of Mercy", "Brother for Brother", "Fury", "Chalk Painting, "My Mom", "Efrosinya", "Special Squad" Storm", "Servant of the People-2", "Baby Boom", "My Boy", "Double Reflection" and others.

Master class "Scriptwriting"

7 years in the television industry - STB, 1+1: Voice, League of Laughter, Pride of Ukraine, led a group of directors of the promo department.
Organized a high-tech festival in Kiev, a festival in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Creator of a vape magazine and vape shop chain in Kyiv

Comedy Battle finalist, winner of the Comedy Laugh show, regular participant in the Evening Quarter show.

And most importantly: Bronze medalist of the North Israel Bridge Championship, among the sixth graders in 1996.

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He wrote music for 16 feature films with the participation of Mikhail Efremov, Elena Safonova, Galina Polskikh, Daniel Olbrykhsky, Natalia Varley, Sergei Makovetsky and many other famous actors and directors.

From 1996 to 1999 he became Music Producer and Art Director for Beverly Hills Production under the direction of Chuck Norris.

Since 2010 he has collaborated with well-known film companies as a composer.

Since 2016 - cooperation with the Venice Symphony Orchestra. Wrote the hymn of the city of Venice to the words of Zoya Nechaeva.

In 2017, the European Guild of Film Composers recognized the 20 best European hits of the 20th century. This number includes the soundtrack to the movie "Butterflies", written by composer Roman Zagorodnyuk.

In 2017 he wrote the music for the film "Knockin 'on Love" of the Theater-Studio of Improvisation "Black Square"

Since 2021 Roman Zagorodnyuk has been a creative director and music producer at Page Group

He played in entreprise performances, in the Odessa Jewish theater "Vanity of vanities"

He worked at Odessa radio stations as a presenter and author of programs, in particular, his own program "Literary Lounge".

As a TV presenter, he created an author's program on the history of Odessa "The Time of Faust".

He staged performances in Odessa and other cities of Ukraine, wrote plays for theaters. He participated in many International Festivals, where he received prizes for Best Actor and Grand Prix. Laureate and diploma holder. I actively act in films. He played the role of Marc Chagall in the play "Overcoming", which the audience met in Odessa, St. Petersburg, Vinnitsa, Lvov, Kiev. Staged and performed at the same venue a solo performance based on the stories, letters and diaries of I. Babel "Two Big Differences".

Organized and held an exhibition on the history of the Jewish theater in Odessa. He took part in the International "Mikhoelsovsky Readings" in Moscow.

Graduated from the first graduating class of the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University.

For years Maftsir worked as a producer in the Israeli film Service. From 1994 to 1999 he was the Service manager.

In 2009 Maftsir founded and until 2014 managed the documentary film department at the Haifa WIZO Academic Center.

Management positions: Director of the Department of Culture and Art, Ministry of Education and Culture (1998-1999). Director General of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption (1999-2001). Head of Delegation of the Jewish Agency in Russia, Belarus and the Baltic States (2003-2005). Director of the Yad Vashem Project to recover the names of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union territories (2006-2012).

In recent years Maftsir has been working exclusively on a documentary project on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.

Producer over 200 documentary films and television documentaries.

Lecture: Replaying Holocaust History Without Archival Materials

Spiritual mentor, coach, professional leader, specialist in the field of non-formal Jewish education with 20 years of experience.

Author of over 100 articles dedicated to fine arts, creativity of artists of Ukraine.

Since 1976 she has been working in the field of industrial graphics and design, participated in many domestic and foreign personal and group exhibitions of painting and graphics. Organized and participated in numerous cultural, educational and educational projects, in particular:

supervised the program "Haggadah" of the Institute of Judaica.

Head of the educational program "Pages of Jewish History and Culture" for teachers and students of Jewish schools in Kiev;

Lecturer of the course "Jewish Fine Arts" for religious students of universities in Ukraine and the CIS countries;

Designer of a series of Jewish art calendars;

Consultant on the Jewish tradition of the documentary Spell Your Name (directed by S. Bukovsky).

Defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Bar-Ilan in Israel. For 20 years, he led Yiddish and Yiddishkite workshops. In the Eastern Europe, was CEO of the World Council for Yiddish Culture. From 2001 to 2014, he was an inspector for teaching Yiddish at the Israeli Ministry of Education. Dr. Yushkovsky has created a network of courses in the field of Yiddish culture, which annually trains over 2,500 people throughout Israel.


He provides lecture cycles of a wide range on various topics related to classical and modern Yiddish literature, Jewish theater, cinema and visual arts.

Lecture: Shtetl in Jewish Literature and Art

Lecture: Yiddish culture as a treasury of national historical memory.

Lecture: Who is making films in Yiddish and why today?

He studied at the University of Haifa (English Literature), worked at the school, teacher of English and Photography. In the early 2000s, he moved to the path of non-formal education, worked as a manager in the field of educational tourism, the "Taglit" project, projects for the study of Jewish History in the Diaspora countries, studied Photography at the course "Open Seminar on Photography, hands. Eyal Onn)

For the last twelve years he has been working as a guide in Israel and abroad, engaged in author photography, studying the History of Schools of Photography. Now studying at the Institute. Schechter: History and Philosophy of the Jewish People.

He has 25 years of experience in formal and non-formal Jewish education, an official representative of Midreshet Yerushalayim and the World Movement of Traditional (Conservative) Judaism in Ukraine.

Master of Arts in Jewish Studies and Foreign Languages and Literature. Has 20 years of experience in the field of Jewish formal and non-formal education. Consultant and teacher of various programs, kashrut specialist. The author and host of the podcast is, Radioklezmer ", consultant on Jewish education for the Kesher Project in Ukraine. Now the director of the center, Masoret" in Kiev.

From Kiev. Having graduated from the Faculty of Education of the Kiev State University IM. Shevchenko. 20 rockiv live in Rusalim. I will ask you for a walk around summer Kiev with thoughts and whips.


Lecture: Historical characters - Jews, leaders and partners, ugly people of Ukraine

Єvreї zalishayut pomіtnі slіdi in Іstorії vsogo Lyudstva. The twentieth century will bring about dramatic events and tragic experiences for our people. Pogroms, SHOA, revolutions, colossus ... The Ukraine - the ugly woman (in the warehouse of the Russian Empire) was thrown around all over the world. We'll talk about the share of the people they do with our regular rumors.