Geva Films
Israeli film studio
Geva Films (Hebrew: סרטי גבע, Sirtei Geva), or the Geva film studio and laboratory was one of the first film studios in Israel. It was established in 1949 in the city of Givatayim near Tel Aviv by Mordechai Navon , Yitzhak Agadati and Yosef Navon. It produced newsreels for cinemas and short films, as well as feature films.
The studio closed in the early 1990s and the building was demolished in September 2011 and two residential towers (Geva Towers (Hebrew: מגדלי גבע)) were built in its place. Shortly prior to the demolition, the building hosted a farewell exhibition, curated by Israeli film scholar Ya'akov Gross.
History
In 1948, sound engineer, Yosef Navon held a meeting with Yitzhak Agadati, a cameraman and lab technician, whom he knew from the Haganah. In 1936, Agadati had produced This is the Land, the first Hebrew-language film and which had been directed by this brother Baruch Agadati. Navon then connected Agadati with his cousin, Modechai Navon, an investor and businessman, who invested in the filming and laboratory equipment. Through his connections with the Haganah, Agadati secured land to build the studio. They were built on the site of a disused woodshed in Givatayim.
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