{"id":7350,"date":"2019-04-15T01:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T01:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:09:40","slug":"the-film-acre-dreams-is-the-only-remaining-testimony-of-azams-life-story-dani-wachsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=7350","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe film ‘Acre Dreams’, is the only remaining testimony of Azam\u2019s life story\u201d- Dani Wachsman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daniel is a multi-award-winning veteran Israeli filmmaker with a record of over 10 feature-length films. His film ‘Hamsin’ (1982) is considered as the best film of the 80’s. He was born on 1946 in Shanghai. In 1949 he immigrated with his parents to Israel. After his army service he graduated Theater, and finished his studies in London Film School. ‘Acre Dreams’ is a fascinating socio-political docu-fiction inspired by the life and assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis, the  Palestinian-Israeli director\/actor\/activist. From 2004 he is living between South India and Israel. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exclusive Interview with Filmmaker Dani Wachsman<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: How did you go about casting for the film?<\/strong>
\nThe cast was mixed from Israel and\nPalestian. The cast that we chose was living almost the same life as the\ncharacter did; Haitham Omari that played Azam was indeed from the west bank and\nwe chose Liraz Chehi as she is a real singer and actress.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nNY Glam: What is the story about and how\ndid you achieve it cinematically?<\/strong>
\nAzam Salameh,a Palestinian theater\ndirector from the West-Bank,invited
\nthe director Dani to Acre to film interviews with old citizens who
\nremember the ‘Nakba’ (the 1948 war).These true evidences would be a part
\nof Azam’s autobiographical theater play.The play tells about a love
\nstory between his grandmother Layla,a Palestinian singer and his Jewish
\ngrandfather Dr.Alfasi. As the work on the play progressed,Azam had to struggle\nagainst extremists that their aim was to prevent him from doing the theater
\nplay. Azam’s efforts to portray the truth ended in a tragedy.
\nThe film ‘Acre Dreams’ which documented his work on the controversial
\nplay,is the only remaining testimony of Azam\u2019s life story.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nNY Glam: Will you be attending the IFFNY\nfestival in New York in May?<\/strong>
\nYes<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nNY Glam: How long have you been making\nfilms and videos?<\/strong>
\nFrom the 70\u2019s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nNY Glam: What film was your directorial debut?<\/strong>
\nTransit, Berlinale competition, 1980<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Dani Wachsman-Filmmaker <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel is a multi-award-winning veteran Israeli filmmaker with a record of over 10 feature-length films. His film ‘Hamsin’ (1982) is considered as the best film of the 80’s. He was born on 1946 in Shanghai. In 1949 he immigrated with his parents to Israel. After his army service he graduated Theater, and finished his studies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19385,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions\/19385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}