"Debts of millions": The filmmakers threaten to disable the theater

Exclusive: Naomi Shemer and Diamond Giora's heirs claim 900,000 from the stage, Rami Vered to over 300,000 and Nathan Detner to 200,000. About 40 theater-makers claim that the theater has millions of payments and threatens to issue restraining orders that will prevent the production of plays created

"Debts of millions": The filmmakers threaten to disable the theater

The Habima Crisis Continues: About forty theater makers, including first-rate directors and playwrights, playwrights and stage designers, claim that the National Theater lends them millions of shekels and threatens to issue restraining orders to prevent theaters from using their copyrights, stopping them from presenting them. These are directors, playwrights, translators, decor designers, lighting and costumes, including Ilan Ronen, Natan Datner, Rebecca Mishul, Hanan Snir, Hadar Galron, Rafi Niv, Hagit Rakvi, Rami Vered, Daniel Lapin, Ido Ricklin, Moti Lerner and Rami Danon's heirs. .

Exclusive: To Walla! Culture has reached the sums that the filmmakers claim the theater owes them, according to the Habima Creators Forum:

Giora Diamond and Naomi Shemer's Heirs - 900,000
Rami Vered - over 300,000
Daniel Lapin - about 200,000
Moti Lerner - 200,000
Nathan Detner - 200,000
Ilan Ronen - 175,000
Ronnie Pinkovich - 150,000
Hanan Snir - More than 100,000
Dawn of Notepad - more than 100,000
Yitzhak Levi - 100,000
Niv Manor - 51,000
Erez Driggs - between 30 and 40,000
Rafi Niv - 30,000
Roy Segev - 30,000
Svetlana Berger - 30,000
Thom Volynitz - 10 Thousands
Ido Ricklin - 22,000
Guy Maroz - Several Thousands

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Claim to Debts of 900,000 for Naomi Shemer's Heirs and Stage Side Diamond Giora (screenshot)

Naomi Shemer (Photo: Screenshot)

The filmmakers urge the stage trustees to reach a settlement with them. Director Nathan Datner, one of the creators of the protest, said: "Depressed stage director Odelia Friedman tells the media that 'as long as the workers receive their salary then the theater exists.' It is a spin and invention designed to continue the injustice and abuse of filmmakers who have not received the money they deserve for their work for years. The theater cannot exist without us either. The actors play texts that we wrote and translated, plays we staged, in decor and costumes we designed, to the sounds of music we composed. All these belong to us and are according to the intellectual property law. We will not allow a situation where our obligations are ignored. "

A claim for debts of 100,000 from the stage. Janz Levy (Photo: Alon Sigui)

Janz Levy (Photo: Alon Sigui, PR)

Tel Aviv Executive Director, theater director association and coordinator of the theater's creators' forum, Albina Chizik, said: "Theater does not exist without the creators, theater is not just actors and workers. The cultural concept should be that everyone is in the same basket, but created a situation There are 2 groups and discrimination between them - salaried and self-employed. For more than a decade, Habima executives have been pushing independent filmmakers to the end of their list of duties when they are at the center of theatrical work with actors and staff, and this situation cannot be continued and will work in any way possible to change decision makers' priorities. ".

Alleged debt of about 200,000 from the stage. Nathan Datner (Photo: Eitan Tal)

Nathan Datner (Photo: Eitan Tal, PR)

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Director Ilan Ronen, who was the artistic director of the Habima Theater, said: "The Habima punished us, the creators, three times. A 2013 haircut. Penalty program written by the government. All the filmmakers who work at Habima required a haircut of 30% of the debts and signed new contracts with The punishment from now until today - bullying the stage creators, the new contracts have only one side of the equation - the creators have kept their promise until the last stop and brought to the stage many works that funded the theater. 'Rejected Kim, promises that made the creators accrue more debts The 2019 punishment - a total disregard. From the moment the trustees enter the stage, the filmmakers are completely ignored. The actors and the workers receive their wages and we stand with the other suppliers at the end of the line of duty. Zero reimbursement for stage creators. We will not allow this situation to continue. To ignore our existence - we will cease its existence. "

Stage Trustee Dorit Levy Taylor told Walla! Culture: "We do not respond to the media." Odelia Friedman, the ousted CEO of Habima, has not yet responded.