Check Out Rotem Alima’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rotem Alima.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
As a kid, I grew up in the countryside of Israel, Hollywood, and making movies seemed like they could exist only on a different planet. Luckily t I was always one of these kids that used to daydream and believed they could do anything – so I did.

I started my career when I was 16, I produced a short movie for my high school assignment, and this movie got to a film festival; I was sure I had reached the top of the world, and the moon and Hollywood were waiting for me. Oh boy, I couldn’t be more wrong.

I joined Steve Ticsh’s film and television school at Tel Aviv University. The first year was rough and ended with me not getting excepted to the production department. I was crushed and about to give up when Moshe Gishri, one of my teachers, decided to fight for me; I feel so fortunate that he did because my life would have probably been very different today if he didn’t.

I believe everything happens for a good reason, and this is no exception. Because of this teacher’s fight, Reuven Hacker, the head of the school, knew who I was, and unlike the committee that denied my application to the production department, Reuven believed in me and supported my dreams.

Reuven helped me a lot, and I was determent to prove him right, and on my second year of school, I was chosen as a finalist at the Peslove film found competition; in the 3rd year, I participated in the Berlinale talent campus, and I won an Israeli academy award for my graduated film ‘Paris on the Water’ that also won the student Oscar.

From school, I jumped into the pool of the industry in Israel. I produced movies, primetime TV shows, and ads for the most prominent companies, but after a while, I started daydreaming about Hollywood again and realized I didn’t want to be a big fish in a pound. I wanted to be a wheel in the ocean, so I packed my dreams and moved to LA.

I was hustling for every production and opportunity, and when things started happening, COVID hit and changed everything. The industry was shot down, and I couldn’t see the light at the end.

As I said before, I believe everything happens for a good reason, and COVID was a blessing in disguise because when things opened up, for a short period, there was so much work and not enough people to do it, and that’s when I opened my company and started to get more significant opportunities.

In the last three years since I opened my company, I got to work with companies like Apple, Samsung, Playtika, Ziprecruter, similar web, and more. I even worked with Gal Gadot!

I have a few movies and TV shows in development. Now I don’t just daydream about my life, I get to live my dreams every day!

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
There were all kinds of different struggles, the kids that were making fun of my daydream about Hollywood, some of my teachers in the first year of film school that didn’t believe in me, the move to LA, and my crazy idea leaving my career behind and starting all over here and of course the year of 2020 that I thought I might put all my chips on the wrong horse by choosing this bumpy road of being a producer. However, I’ve learned and grown stronger and better from all of these and it made me the producer I’m today.

When I’m facing an obstacle today and I remember everything I’ve been through, I know there is no one and nothing that can stop me from living my best life.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I make dreams come true, or in other words- I’m a producer. I produce impact-driven movies, TV shows and commercials.

What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned along your journey?
You can try and fall on your face 100 times, but when the 101 time comes, you need to smile and act like it’s your first because that can be the one time you’ll make it.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.rotemalima.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rotem.alima/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rotem.alima/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rotem-alima/