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About Me

Igal Hecht was born in Israel and moved to Canada at the age of 11. Compelled by a strong need to highlight the political clashes in Israel, he devoted his life to making documentaries and humanizing issues through images, places, people and their stories.In 1999 Igal Hecht created Chutzpa Productions to produce films about Judaism, Israel and the on-going tensions in the Middle East. To date Chutzpa Productions has produced over twenty documentaries combined along with a slue of television show..s and narrative films and no topic is out of bounds.Chutzpa Productions has released films focusing on Messianic Judaism, The Political Jewish Left in North America, Israeli Palestinian conflict, The Gaza Disengagement and many more reaching national and international acclaim.Documentaries created by Chutzpa Productions have been broadcasted in Canada but continue to travel the globe with viewings in numerous international film festivals. In 2005 Chutzpa Productions won the Bronze award for best documentary film in the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival for the controversial movie Not In My Name and critics describe Hecht..s films as ..Edgy.. Rattling Cages, thought provoking, and Controversial....In 2007 Chutzpa Productions released March of the Living, which aired nationally on CTS television and Pride; as an official selection of the Inside and Out film festival airing nationally on OUTtv. Later this year Chutzpa Productions will be releasing three highly anticipated films In the Shadow of the Messiah, Israeli Night Life and Banished. All films have secured broadcasting.Chutzpa Productions has set the bar with thought provoking, edgy, award winning films. Spearheading a new movement in contemporary documentary filmmaking that..s often mimicked by others, Igal Hecht continues to raise the standards and style of Canadian filmmaking.

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