James Israel and Jeff Israel
James Israel and Jeff Israel are Brooklyn based filmmakers originally from South Carolina. Their collaborations include short films and feature length screenplays.

They recently completed their latest short film,
Face Value, which is about a lonely offer worker from another country becomes entranced by a seductive barfly.

Their short film The Tourist, starring musician and actress Rebecca Moore had its world premiere at the 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival and also screened at the Woodstock Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film Festival. It is available on the DVD anthology The Journal of Short Film.

Their first film, Back and Forth, screened around the country, including the Atlanta Film Festival and a giant outdoor video screen in Times Square.

Other shorts include: Terrain Vague, which screened at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Raindance Film Festival; and The Sinking Ship, a short film based on the Staten Island segment of their feature length screenplay, Five Boroughs, which was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab Finalist.
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James Israel and Jeff Israel on the set of their latest short film, Face Value.
James Israel and Jeff Israel on the set of their latest short film, Face Value with Script Supervisor Luci Westphal-Solary and Director of Photography Matthew Hale.
(Photos by Kenny Trice.)
DIRECTORS REEL ONLINE - Scenes from
James and Jeff Israel's film work, including their new short film, Face Value.

More about James

James has written for indieWIRE and The Independent Film & Video Monthly and is currently a staff member at indieWIRE. No stranger to indieWIRE, James has worked with their daily Park City coverage for the past five years at the Sundance Film Festival. He was previously a staff member at the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. He has also acted as a script reader for Global Film Initiative, the IFP Gordon Parks Awards, and has screened films for The Tribeca Film Festival.

More about Jeff

For the past eight years Jeff has worked
on features films, documentaries, television series, commercials, and short films. His post-production credits include:
Reading Rainbow for PBS, Little Bill,
an animated series for Nickelodeon/CBS, various reality television programming
for BBC Productions USA,
In Memoriam, an HBO documentary covering the events of September 11, 2001 in New York City, and the independent feature film Loggerheads, which screened in the Dramatic Competition at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Besides editing his own short films, Jeff also was editor on Thirsty, directed by Bo Mehrad. He is currently working on the ABC comedy,
The Knights of Prosperity.