Mayan Engelman e Eliran Peled

Mayan Engelman and Eliran Peled are award-winning directors whose films have been screened around the world. Engelman is an Independent Visual Development artist who specializes in Character Design and Concept Art for Animation; Peled has directed 14 shorts and is the youngest director ever in Israel to receive the main government fund for his forthcoming directorial feature. Engleman and Peled’s joint effort, Cinema Rex, is an animation short based on a true story that focuses on two kids who form a close friendship through their mutual love for cinema. Cinema Rex was actually a real cinema that worked between 1937-1939 in Jerusalem, one of the only businesses at the time that was co-owned by Jewish and Arab owners.