Shira Hochman
Shira Hochman is a producer, film editor and editor consultant. In 2018 Shira founded her independent production company MINA Films. In the same year she has being invited to participate in the Berlinale talents campus. In 2019 Shira produced the Oscar nominated short film White Eye by Tomer Shushan. The film participated in more than 100 international film festival and won multiple awards, the short fiction film It’s Time You Died Already by Hadar Morag (Best Short Film Award, Haifa IFF 2021) and the experimental film Horst by Miki Polonski (DocAviv 2020: Honorary mention). Currently, Shira is producing Talitha Kumi by Hadar Morag (The Jerusalem International Film Lab, Berlin 3 Months 24/7 Residency 2018 by the Medienboard & the FFA), Takotsubo by Miki Polonski (Cannes Cinéfondation Residence 2020, TFL 2019) and Tomer Shushan’s first feature film, Waiting for the Sunrise (Nipkow AirBerlin program 2021) which is in the development stage.
MINA Films – Israel
MINA Films is a young independent production company from Israel founded in 2018 by the film editor Shira Hochman. After years of editing films and being close to the creative process from the early stage of the development, Shira has decided to create her own company with the aim to promote and nurture creative projects by emerging talents with a unique cinematic voice, to develop and produce fiction, documentary and experimental films which explore boundaries of film narration and search for idiosyncratic visual language. Using her experience as a film editor who works close to the creative process, she intends use MINA Films to build strong and genuine connections between the directors and the production framework.
Projects in development
Talitha Kumi by Hadar morag (fiction)
Takotsubo by Miki Polonski (fiction)
Waiting for the Sunrise by Tomer Shushan (fiction)
Released films
White Eye by Tomer Shushan, 2019 (short fiction)
It’s Time You Died Already by Hadar Morag, 2021 (short fiction)
Horst by Miki Polonski, 2021 (short experimental)
