36 Facts About Ram Loevy

Ram Loevy is an Israeli television director and screenwriter.

In 1993, Loevy was awarded the Israel Prize in Communication, Radio and Television in 1993 for his life's work.

Ram Loevy is Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University.

Ram Loevy was the son of Theodor Loevy, a journalist and his wife Elisa, originally from Poland.

Ram Loevy's father was the editor of the Danziger Echo, a prominent Jewish newspaper in the Free City of Danzig, who had been jailed for publishing anti-Nazi articles in his paper.

Ram Loevy was sent to Kibbutz Gal'ed in northern Israel, near the large Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.

Ram Loevy later worked on Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev.

Ram Loevy's stay in London was cut short by the Six-Day War.

Ram Loevy made his first foray into film as the assistant director for a documentary film, Sand Screen by Baruch Dinar, with American journalist Drew Pearson.

In 1968, while in London, Ram Loevy proposed to create a documentary film about the rifts in Israeli society.

Already in these early works, Ram Loevy focused on two themes that would dominate his laterprojects: the tense relationship between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the role of education and art in shaping a society.

In 1978, Loevy was propelled into the spotlight for his dramatization of the novella Khirbet Khize by S Yizhar.

Ram Loevy submitted the proposal again in 1977, this time with a script by Daniella Carmi, hoping that the film would be used to mark Israel's 30th Independence Day.

Ram Loevy then made two documentary films about the theatre and its role in society.

Ram Loevy had more than anyone shaped the direction of Israeli television as a medium addressing the country's major social issues, and for this he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University.

Ram Loevy was determined to tell the story of the silenced masses, and he was determined to do it not by shouting but by silence.

Ram Loevy examined the role of music and film in society in two documentary films:.

Rather than tackle literature the same way, Ram Loevy chose instead to adapt major literary works to the medium of television.

Ram Loevy turns to a film director who is going through a crisis in his life, and together they begin to weave a story about this imaginary woman.

In 1993, when Ram Loevy was at work on a documentary, he received the news that he had been awarded the Israel Prize for his lifework.

Some people claimed that Ram Loevy should have been denied the Israel Prize.

Ram Loevy captured this in the film, creating a new television vocabulary.

In 1999 Ram Loevy expanded his scope to tackle a new issue that was rising to the forefront of Israeli consciousness: environmentalism.

Ram Loevy succeeded in capturing the world of the Hiriya in its final days, as it was transformed from a dump to a recycling center and national park.

Ram Loevy's next documentary film, Letters in the Wind, was a tribute to noted Israeli actor Yossi Banai, one of the country's most noted performers and scion of a well-established theatrical family.

Shortly before Letters in the Wind, Ram Loevy directed a miniseries, Policeman, based on a script by Galia Oz and Ofer Mashiach.

In 1997, Ram Loevy approached Moti Kirschenbaum with plans to direct a miniseries about a murder that took place in a fictional television station, Channel 66.

Ram Loevy denies that the script for Murder in Television House was a critique of Israeli public television.

Ram Loevy had enlisted Batya Gur, a popular writer of detective fiction, to tell the story of a murder that took place in Channel 66, a fictional commercial television station.

Ram Loevy later admitted that this was the one incident in the plot that was not fictional.

Ram Loevy went on to report the incident to the military authorities and, in consequence, was removed from his unit.

Ram Loevy had long wanted to make a film about the incident, but lacked the evidence to prove conclusively what had happened.

When Porat refused to produce the story, Ram Loevy resigned from Channel 1.

Channel 2 bought the rights to the series and Ram Loevy directed it for them.

Since then, Loevy made one more television drama, Skin, written by Shoham Smith, about a former stripper who works in the Diamond Exchange District in Ramat Gan, gets involved in a murder.

In 2007, Ram Loevy served as producer for the film The Woman From The Bubble about a young woman who translates sign language.