Gum Films is a production house for feature films and documentaries. Its founders, Yoav Roeh and Aurit Zamir, graduated from the prestigious Sam Spiegel Film and Television school. In 2008 they started Gum Films, a home for fresh talents and unique cinematic voices.
Yoav Roeh- Producer. Yoav has produced feature films and documentaries within different collaborations.
Among them:
Zion and His Brother/Eran Merav (Sundance 2009),
State of Israel vs. Tali Fahima/Tal Hakim (Jerusalem Film Festival, 2006),
Noodle/Ayelet Menahemi (special Grand Prize of the Jury, Montreal, 2007),
What A Wonderful Place/Eyal Halfon (Special Prize of the Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2005, Best Film- Israel Academy Awards, 2005),
Melting Siberia/Ido Haar (Official Selection, Silverdocs, 2005),
Miss Entebbe/Omri Levi (Special Mention, Berlinale, 2003).
Aurit Zamir- Producer. Aurit graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School with special honors in 2002. Her graduation film "800 Calories" was screened at festivals around the world and won many prizes. After graduation she established herself as a leading first AD on feature films, dramas and TV series. She is currently writing a script for a feature film with development funds from the Israel Film Fund. Becoming a producer brings together her organizational skills and love of a good story.
Shoham Bigelman is a graduate of the Film and Television Department of Tel-Aviv University. She previously worked as production coordinator in TV productions such as "Imal'e" and "Besoroth tovot" on Israel's commercial channel 2. She has also worked in production and research positions in various TV & film productions such as "Blue I.D" by Hayim Yavin, and "Sentenced to marriage" By Anat Zuria. following that she spent two and a half years as the executive producer at MAGYX – an interactive content company, developers of "Smart Content", where she was in charge, among other, on the film "9 Months" and the new-media series "40 weeks". She joined Aurit and Yoav at Gum Films as the company line producer.