For the past three years, at least one Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film has been Israeli. The number of Israeli filmmakers has expanded significantly in the past seven years, as has the number of distributors of these films. Isaac Zablocki, the executive director and co-founder of the Other Israel Film Festival , which is being held on Nov. 10-17, is an alumnus of the Film Division at the Columbia University School of Arts. He is bringing the Israeli film presence to the United States, hoping to alter the way we perceive life in the Middle East .
