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Leftover Women

Three professional women are on a quest to find 'Mr. Right' before they are too old for the marriage market and Chinese society deems them ‘leftover’.

Premiere Date

February 10, 2020

Length

90 minutes

Filmmaker Hilla Medalia
Hilla Medalia

Director

(Producer/Director) Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and producer has received three Emmy® nominations. Her projects have garnered critical acclaim and screened internationally in theaters and on television including HBO, MTV, BBC and ARTE. Her range of titles include 'To Die in Jerusalem' 2007 (HBO), 'After the Storm' 2009 (MTV), 'Numbered' 2012 (ARTE), 'Dancing in Jaffa' 2013(Tribeca, IFC Sundance selects), 'Web Junkie' 2014 (Sundance Film Festival, POV, BBC) and 'The Go Go Boys' 2014 (Cannes Film Festival), 'Censored Voices' 2015, (Sundance Film Festival and Berlinale), ‘Muhi - Generally Temporary’ 2017 (San Francisco FIlm Festival, Hot Docs) and ‘The Oslo Diaries’ 2018 (Sundance, HBO). Hilla is a board member of The Israeli Director's Guild and a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. Hilla holds an M.A. from Southern Illinois University.
Filmmaker Shosh Shlam
Shosh Shlam

Director

(Director/Producer) of "Last Journey into Silence" (2003) that won best Documentary at the Lublin Film Festival. Her next film, “Be Fruitful and Multiply” (2005) broadcasted on channel 2 in Israel, ZDF and other European TV channels. “Good Garbage” (2008) won an award for Best Documentary at the Shanghai Film Festival in China, FICA Film Festival in Brazil and "Web Junkie" that won best Documentary Honorable Mention at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Won the best documentary in TRT Turkey. Premiered in Sundance Film Festival (2014) and was theatrically released in NY, LA and Toronto. Broadcasted on the BBC, ARTE, PBS and on many other TV stations. Shosh holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Bar Ilan University. She also graduated from the Theatre Department at Tel Aviv University, and studied at New York’s School of Visual Arts.