Aaron is a simple man who guards the Wailing Wall. Day after day, a mysterious woman puts a note in between the ancient stones, and Aaron, recovering and reading the papers, fulfills her deepest wishes.
Erez Tadmor
Erez Tadmor (1974) is one of Israel’s most renowned contemporary filmmakers. His films won over 40 international prizes, including at the Sundance Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Ophir Award, and Jerusalem Film Festival. Among his films are A Matter of Size (2009), which was nominated for 13 Ophir Awards, Magic Men (2014), which was nominated for four Ophir Awards, Wounded Land (2015), for which Tadmor won an Ophir Award for Best Director, and The Art of Waiting(2019) and Children of Nobody (2022). Due to Matchmaking’s outstanding success, Tadmor is currently developing its sequel.
Guy Nattiv
Guy Nattiv is an acclaimed writer/director from Tel Aviv, Israel. His first feature, “Strangers”, premiered at the Sundance & Tribeca Film Festivals in 2008. It was based on his short film “Strangers” (with Erez Tadmor) that won best short at Sundance two years earlier. It was short-listed for the Academy Awards, and won over 20 festivals world-wide. His second feature, “The Flood (Mabul)” won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011, two awards at the Thesaloniki film festivals, best film at Haifa Film Festival and was nominated for 6 Israeli Academy Awards.
His latest film, “Magic Men” (with Erez Tadmor), was shot in Greece and premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2014. It won “Best Actor” in the Israeli Academy and the Audience Award at the MAUI film festival.
Guy is developing his first U.S. feature film, SKIN, and numerous American TV projects.
An accomplished commercial director for more than ten years, Guy has shot campaigns around the world for Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Nestle, Skoda, and Mercedes amongst many others.