NIR BERGER

Dead End ("Sof Ha-Derech")

Original Comedy Web Series

10 episodes X 4.5 mins.
Creator, Co-Writer, Director.
 

In a post-apocalyptic Jerusalem, two teenage siblings bicker their way through what's left of the city in search of their little brother whom they lost in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. They find that despite everything literally going up in smoke, nothing had really changed.

Season 1 has reached over 1.5 views in Israel in its first few months of airing.

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Created for Kan, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, with support of the Jerusalem Film and Television Fund.

Production Company: Mind the Gap Animation (Yael Ozsinay).

Nominations & Awards

• Animix Festival (Israel, 2019) - the leading festival for Israeli animation - Winner, Best Commissioned Animation

• Realist Web Fest, Russia (2019) - Winner, Best Screenplay

• Raindance Film Festival (UK, 2019) - Official Selection

• Kaboom Animation Festival (Previously KLIK & HAFF Festivals) (Netherlands, 2019) – Nominated, Best Short Film, TBD November 2019

• Seoul Web Fest, Korea  (2019) - Nominated

Episodes

• All episodes on Youtube have English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles. For episodes with hardcoded English subtitles, please contact me.

Links

• IMDB page.

• Official mini-site by KAN (Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation).

• Official Facebook group.

• All episodes on KAN's Youtube Channel.

• Article about the series in Time Out Tel Aviv (HEB).

• Article about the series in Mako (HEB).

• Article about the series in Geektime (HEB).

• IGN Israel - Best 15 animation shows for adults (HEB).

• Interview with the creative team in IGN Israel (HEB).

Credits

Creator and Director | Nir Berger

Screenplay | Ofir Sasson, Nir Berger

Production | Mind The Gap Animation

Art Director | Inbal Ochyon

Animation Director | Yael Ozsinay

Voice Acting | Gaya Beer Gurevich, Ofir Sasson, Yotam Perel,

Daniel Buxe

Additional Voice Acting | Guy Shahaf, Liron Narunsky, Rotem Bloch, Carmel Sela, Evyater Halimi

Guest Voice | Arik Eber

Soundtrack Design and Recording | Ori Kadishay, HaMazkeka Studios

Original Score | Nami Melumad

Storyboard | Ofir Sasson

Animatic Editor | Ofir Sasson, Nir Berger

Animation | Guy Shahaf, Netta Lahav, Shuli Tager, Gal Haklay,

Liron Narunsky, Yael Ozsinay

Layout and Backgrounds Design | Inbal Ochyon, Rotem Bloch,

Netta Lahav, Guy Shahaf

Rigging | Liron Narunsky, Netta Lahav, Yael Ozsinay

Compositing | Yali Herbet

Graphic Design | Tami Ozsinay

Arabic Translation | Dima Kanaan

English Translation | A.L. Fajores Industries

Subtitles | Jasmine Fadila