Deadline

About the director
Idan Gilboa is a graduate from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, specializing in Visual Communication. With a focus on stop motion animation and illustration, he furthered his skills at SVA New York during a student exchange. Balancing his passion for animation with a career in the creative industry, Idan serves as an Art Director and Creative Manager at leading advertising agencies and gaming companies. ‘Deadline’ is Idan’s debut Short film.

Director statement

Beyond the great fun of making a trashy puppet action movie about a bunch of armed grandmothers who run amok in the streets. The film is basically a social satire wrapped up with black humor that deals with
some heavy issues like: Elderly, Death, technophobia, society’s disregard and disrespect of the elders And bureaucracy. In the generation of the heroines of our story – A generation of people who continued to cling to life in unimaginable situations, even though it was much easier to give up and surrender to death. Those who once fought for their lives in the Holocaust and for the existence of the country in countless wars, today fight mainly in a Sisyphean and oppressive bureaucracy and endless queues. They are fighting in the constantly changing technological world around them, but mostly they are fighting society’s indifference towards them. Through the film Deadline, which expresses in a grave way the anger at the indifference to the phenomenon, we want to give them one more small victory and more time here with us and on the way to come to terms with society’s disregard and disrespect.