Samuel Maoz Samuel Maoz Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His 2009 film, "Lebanon" won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Screenplay for Lebanon at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2010. Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War. After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film
63rd Venice International Film Festival in the festival history since the Second World War. The international juries of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows: Main Competition ("Venezia 63") Horizons ("Orizzonti") Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film) Short Film Competition ("Corto Cortissimo") The competitive section of the official selection is an international competition of feature films in 35mm and digital HD format, running for the Golden Lion. Works by directors already established in past editions of the Festival, and films deemed appropriate for a midnight screening. A section aiming to provide a picture of the new trends in