Yamin Messika

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Yamin Messika (born February 24, 1957) is an Israeli director, screenwriter, photographer, editor and producer. Messika was born in the neighborhood of Katamon T in the south of Jerusalem and grew up in the city of Jerusalem to a struggling family with many children of eight brothers and sisters. In the 1970s he took part in the tent movement in Jerusalem. In 1972, he even participated in the play "Yosef Goes Down to Katmona" at the Ohel Yosef theater which operated in the Katmon 9 neighborhood. Messika continued to study fine art photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and in San Francisco he studied film and television.

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Tapes of Revolution

The story of Yamin Masika, the “Don Quixote" of Israeli cinema — a director, social activist, and cultural entrepreneur who played a pivotal role in transforming Mizrahi culture from the margins to the mainstream. In the 1990s, after repeated rejections by the Israeli film industry, Masika began creating underground, low-budget films and music videos featuring Mizrahi artists like Avi Bitter, Tamir Gal, Moshe Cohen, Sarit Hadad, and Zehava Ben. Though ridiculed and dismissed by the establishment, these films resonated deeply with audiences who had been excluded from mainstream media for decades, leading to a cultural revolution.

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