General info

Award winning filmmaker, writer and musician. A post production expert with nearly 20 years of experience with CGI for TV and cinema. Founder and CEO Happyzoda Pictures LTD

IN PRODUCTION:

* Composing the music for a German crime series for ZDF

* Creating the VFX for a German crime series for ZDF

* Developing a story for a movie script - working title "On Both Feets"

Experience

  • DIRECTOR/CEO
    Israel - Germany - USA
    Happyzoda Productions

    BACKGROUND:

    Solo Avital started his filmmaker career in 1993 as a 3D animator, when the early Autodesk 3D Studio was released to home users.

    In 1994, Avital started to work in various post productions studios in Tel Aviv as 3D animator, specialized in character animation.

    1996 Avital was invited to Babelsberg studios in Germany to create a complex character animation of the popular Machine-Man transformation of the 1927 film Metropolis by film director Fritz Lang, who created this masterpiece at the very same studios. Avital had completed the work almost 2 months before the deadline and was offers to remain as the head of the 3D department. Avital stayed in Babelberg for nearly 5 years, in which he eventually moved from 3D to digital film compositing, working as a Domino artist on the Quantel digital compositing tool for 35mm films and INFERNO, Art Directed various projects, directed TV commercials and was used as second unit director for European film projects.


    DOCUMENTARIES:

    In 2001 Avital directed a short documentary film "Keep on Dancing" portraying the psychic of young Israeli club goers trying to live a western lifestyle under the shadow of terror attacks.

    By 2003, Avital completed a second documentary "Art Liberates", a stylish audiovisual experiential film collage about German and Israeli artists leaving and working in Berlin. The film became a cult movie in Israel documentary channel 8 which re-runs it till today. The film was made by a shared director of Solo Avital and Adam Horowitz.

    Avital's 2006 film "More Than 1000 Words" was a film which took 2 years to shoot, following the life and work of Israel's leading war photographer Ziv Koren. The film received numerous international awards and also made history, as the first Israeli film ever to be invited to Teheran Fajr International Film Festival in Iran.

    Avital's 2008 German hit comedy "Laughing in Tears" is docomedia about the roots of Jewish Humor, starring Iris Berben and featuring Sara Silverman, Lewis Black, Ephraim Kishon, Harald Schmidt, Mario Barth, Gerhard Polt, Hana Laslo, Gil Koatch among other guest appearances. The film was produced by Oliver Berben and MOOVIE the art of entertainment.


    IN PRODUCTION:

    From 2008 till 2011, Avital had co-written the story and visually developed a unique concept for an 80 minutes animated feature film titled POINT OF NO RETURN, an espionage action thriller in 3D stereo, to be released in 2012.


    FILMOGRAPHY:

    * 2012 - THE POINT OF NO RETURN - In Production
    * 2008 - Laughing Tears - 90:MIN ZDF
    * 2006 - ...More Than 1000 Words - 79:MIN
    * 2004 - Art Liberates - 54:MIN
    * 2003 - Keep On Dancing - 24:MIN


    HIGHLIGHTS:

    2011 - Directed and edited the high-end SIXT Image movie for Regina Sixt. Produced by Oliver Berben and Moovie the art of entertainment.

    2010 - Acted as the Israeli producer for the high-end aiberlin commercial, directed by Til Schweiger.

    2009 - Directed the 4K digital cinema logo animation for UFA CINEMA - GERMANY.

    2008 - Directed the music video "Drom America" for Dani Reichental -ISRAEL.

    2007 - VFX supervision "Rosa Roth" GERMANY.

    2006 - VFX supervision “Africa Mon Amour” - GERMANY.

    2005 - VFX supervision “Die Patriarchin” - GERMANY.

    1998 - Digital compositor “The Legend of 1900” (Giuseppe Tornatore) - UK.

    1997 - Digital compositor “Lost In Space” (Stephen Hopkins) - UK.
    [edit] Awards


    AWARDS:

    * 2007 Warsaw Phoenix Award and Best Audience Choice, Warsaw Film Festival - Poland
    * 2006 Best Feature Documentary, Winnipeg International Film Festival - Canada
    * 2006 Margrit & Robert Mondavi Film Prize for Peace and Understanding, Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival - USA
    * 2006 Best Feature Film, BRIDGE International Film Festival - Canada
    * 2006 Best Professional Documentary, REEL to REAL Film Festival - USA
    * 2006 Best Israeli Film and Best Film of the Festival, Youngstown's Jewish Film Festival - USA