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Exclusive: Former Keshet International SVP Limor Gott Ronen has reunited with Alon Shrutzman at 5XMedia.

Gott Ronen has joined the management company and production house as partner/producer, working alongside 5X partner Ryan Lindenberg, the former Berlanti Productions exec who joined in June, to add to 5X’s scripted and premium docs slate. She will also continue to separately develop and produce projects she already has in the pipeline.

Between 2012 and 2021, Gott Ronen was SVP at the international arm of Israeli broadcaster Keshet, working under Shtruzman, who became Co-CEO of 5X alongside Gil Goldschien earlier this year. The pair were among the key players who established Keshet International as a major player by making Rising Star one of the biggest selling formats in the world and selling several scripted titles for adaptation in the U.S., including Prisoners of War, which became Showtime’s Homeland.

Since exiting, Gott Ronen has built a slate,...

Global SVOD Amazon Prime Video has signed up for a second season of Spanish-language psychological thriller “La Jauria.” The show is the streamer’s first local Original series from Chile, produced by Fremantle and Fabula, run by writer-director Pablo Larraín (“Jacky”) and brother Juan de Díos Larraín (“Gloria Bell”).

Starring breakout superstar Daniela Vega (“A Fantasic Woman”), “La Jauria” is showrun by award-winning filmmaker Lucia Puenzo (“Xxy”).

“For Fabula it is important to tell our stories from Chile to the rest of the world. A second season of ‘La Jauria’ is also a recognition of the talent of our actors and actresses, our technicians, writers, directors and all the professionals involved in the process,” said Angela Poblete, regional head of TV at Fabula.

Set at a private Catholic school in Santiago de Chile, “La Jauría” follows the case of a Catholic school student who stages a protest and becomes the...

Other winners include Assaf Korman’s Next To Her.

The 30th Haifa Film Festival (Oct 9-18) in Israel has closed with the Best Picture Award handed to Next to Her (At li Layla), Assaf Korman’s debut feature

A jury including Hamburg Film Festival director albert Wiederspiel and Hungarian filmmaker Szabolcs Hajdu, added a Best Script distinction for Liron Ben Shlush, who plays one of the leads in the film, first unveiled earlier this year in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.

Cannes screenplay winner Leviathan won the Fedeora Film Critics’ Award with director Andrey Zvyagintsev, who was the festival’s guest of honour, presenting a full retrospective of his films.

Sophie Arthuis’ The Valley collected the First Film Award as well as a Best Actor for Nave Tsur.

For Best Actress, the jury picked Levana Finkelstein for her performance in The Farewell Party (Mita Tova), a black comedy which scored high notes at its Venice and Toronto shows and is...