Planet Israel has been made independently and with the help of a stalwart team of talented and multi-award-winning professionals who believed in the film’s message.
Gillian Mosely
Director, Producer
Gillian Mosely began producing documentary films in 1997, creating, developing, producing and exec producing a wide range of high-end documentaries for Arte, BBC, Channel 4, Discovery, History, ITV, NatGeo, PBS and ZDF among others.
TV films include “Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings,” and BBC2, and BAFTA, Royal Television Society and AIB award-winning “Mummifying Alan,” Channel 4, Discovery, NGCI.
She has been producing theatric documentaries since 2017, and directed her first, The Tinderbox, released in 2021/2022. It won a number of awards and was shown in cinemas as well as through British parliament, and charities including Christian Aid, the then Balfour Project, and Amnesty International.
Gillian is also descended from numerous famous religious and community leaders whose services to Judaism have been documented for more than 1200 years.
Lucy Lyon
Director of Photography, Additional Direction
From a young age, Lucy Lyon imagined packing a bag and exploring the other side of the hill from her home village in rural Scotland. That dream was realised as Lucy has lived and worked as a film maker, photographer and journalist in countries including Afghanistan, the African Sahel, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.
After reading modern languages at Edinburgh University, Lucy completed the City University Periodical Journalism post graduate course and worked in print journalism, documentaries, and the humanitarian sector for over twenty years.
Her films include a feature documentary about opium and heroin use in Afghan communities, and human-interest films for organisations including UNICEF, UNRWA, Save the Children, the HALO Trust and the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. She is now head of communications at the David Nott Foundation.
Alethea Lyndsay
Editor, Director and Producer
Alethea Lyndsay is an award-winning Editor, Director and Producer who is known for bringing well-told stories alive.
She loves infusing the films she cuts with a distinctive musicality as well as finding fresh ways to explore subjects.