
Walking Under Palms
Director Adam Weingrod, Producers Alexis Bloom and Kobi Mizrahi
As children, Margot and Lotte flee Nazi Germany to find refuge in the tropical Philippine Islands; but when Japan invades Manila, their newfound sanctuary is shattered. After the war, betrayal and envy between their fathers drives them apart. Now, in their 90s, they get a chance to say goodbye for the last time.
Phase of Support: Production

Adam Weingrod
Director
Adam’s works have been shown in prominent film festivals such as Venice Film Festival, DOC NYC, Fipadoc, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand and Thessaloniki to name a few. I See You won best mid-length documentary at the Israeli Academy Awards and won best short at the Israeli documentary film awards 2024. Spots Of Light won the SMART award at Fipadoc 2024 for best interactive documentary. The Island won several international awards including Best Debut Film at the Verzio Human Rights Festival and Dutch Golden Stone Award for best Documentary – SCENECS International Film Festival. Alongside filmmaking Adam works as a composer for film and T.V. In 2023 he was nominated for an Israeli Academy Award for Best Original Music for the film The Other Widow. Adam holds a B.A. in music from the Jerusalem Rubin Academy and a M.F.A in film from the Steve Tisch TAU Film Dept.

Alexis Bloom
Producer
Alexis Bloom was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and produced widely for the National Geographic Channel and BBC World in her early career. She has worked in the U.S. since 2001, and has produced extensively for PBS FRONTLINE on both investigative pieces and international stories. Bloom was a producer on the Emmy Award-winning PBS show Rx For Survival (for long-form non-fiction) and was also a producer and director on the NOVA series This Emotional Life. In 2014, she was the recipient of the Producers Guild of America Award for We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2017, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, and also for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, for Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a documentary film made for HBO. Among her recent work are Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg and The Bibi Files.

Kobi Mizrahi
Producer
Kobi Mizrahi, an Oscar nominated producer, alumnus of EAVE and Emerging Producers workshops, established KM PRODUCTIONS to focus on creating sustainable relationships with young, innovative directors in order to produce shorts, features, and documentaries. His features include Cabaret Total: 2 Israeli film academy awards, Honorable Mention at the World Premiere at Mar del Plata film festival, November 2024. The Road to Eilat (2022): 3 awards including Best Feature at Jerusalem IFF, 11 Israeli Academy nominations; The Dive (2018): 4 awards including Best Feature at Jerusalem IFF, 2 awards at Locarno, screened a.o. at Toronto, AFI Fest.; and Water (2012, Israeli-Palestinian omnibus film): Amnesty International Award, opened Venice Critics’ Week. His short films, including White Eye (Oscar-nominated), Mission Hebron (EFA shortlisted), I See You (Israeli academy awards winner) have been screened at major festivals such as Cannes, Venice, IDFA, Locarno, Toronto, Telluride, SXSW, DOC NYC, Annecy and sold to HBO, Canal+ and more.