Two thousands years after the Jewish Kingdom came to an end with the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple, the story of exile and return defines Jewish identity.
Exile , all serious historians agree , is a myth . The truth is that the majority of the Jewish population continued to live in biblical Israel after the Roman victory. If exile is indeed a myth , what did happen to the survivors of the rebellion? Some they their descendants are the Jews of the Diaspora . Others say their descendants are the Palestinians . Is there an evidence that proves either claim, or are they both attempts to use history for political purposes. What role do the myth and counter myths play in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians?
Exile will be an innovative 90 min documentary investigation into the myth, weaving animation and a variety of other documentary techniques.

Co produced by Mozer Films/Ilan Ziv with Algeria Productions (France) Amythos Films (Canada) In association with National Film Board of Canada and CBC Radio Canada.

Production begins January 2010

In Pre Production :

Miami Havana
The times are changing

They are young. They are Cuban Americans. They live in Miami. When their grand parents arrived here, they thought their coming back to Cuba would be a matter of days, then of months, then of years. Their grand parents never made it back. Neither did their parents. Will these young people ever want to live in Cuba? What are their dreams ? What kind of America, what kind of world do they want ?

They are young Cubans. Their leaders are aging. Revolution is not what it used to be. They have no nostalgia, they are just unsure about the future. What are their lives like? What are their dreams?

From October to December 2009, 12 young people in both Havana and Miami will tell their personal stories three times a week in a new international documentary series on Internet, then in a documentary film on television.

Co Produced by Tamouz Media(US) Alegria Productions (France) in association with ARTE -France, The Knight Center for International Media (University of Miami)

On Line October 2009

In Post Production:

Execution Chronicles

On April 5, 2002, Mark Stroman, a 32-year-old stone cutter from Dallas, entered Texas’s death row for the murder of Vasudev Patel, an Indian immigrant and gas station owner in Mesquite, TX. Patel was Stroman’s third and final victim. In the three weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Stroman also shot and killed Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani immigrant in Dallas, and partially blinded a gas station attendant from Bangladesh in the erroneous belief that all three men were Arabs. The press labeled the murders: Texas's first post 9/11 hate crime. Stroman himself claimed that “blinded by rage,” he killed to avenge the United States. The prosecution convinced the jury that robbery was his true motive, (even though he hadn’t taken money from his victims) and he was sentenced to death.

What drove Stroman to commit these horrendous acts? This question, along with Stroman’s day-to-day existence on death row, his battle against the state of Texas' determination to execute him, the plight of his victims' families, are part of the filmmaker's journey to understand himself, our capacity for violence, and the banality of evil.

Co produced with Maryknoll Media Productions

Release Date January 1st, 2010