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Rakefet Abergel

Rakefet Abergel

Birth : , Los Angeles, California, USA

History

A native of Los Angeles, Rakefet Abergel is an award-winning American/Israeli actor, writer, director, and producer. She appeared in the movie Superbad with Jonah Hill, and as Adam Sandler's sister in Just Go with It . She can also be seen in the films My Best Friend's Girl opposite Dane Cook, with Halle Berry in The Call, and alongside Eddie Murphy & Kerry Washington in the film, A Thousand Words. Rakefet also regularly guest stars on TV shows including Showtime's Shameless, New Girl, My Name is Earl, Bella and the Bulldogs, and iCarly. Her newest film, Boo, which she wrote, produced, and starred in, is her film directorial debut. Previously she also directed various episodes of a web series called "Girls on Girls". The short screenplay for Boo was a finalist in the Best Short Screenplay category at Nightmares Film Festival in Columbus, Ohio and won Best Short Script at Vancouver Bad Ass Film Festival in Canada. It also won an Honorable Mention at Women in Horror Film Festival in Atlanta and was an official selection at over 15 festivals worldwide. The first film Rakefet wrote was the award-winning horror/thriller short film called Jax in Love, which she co-produced with executive producer & casting director Jory Weitz (Napoleon Dynamite). The film, directed by Oscar-nominated director Colin Campbell made the festival rounds and garnered Abergel ten Best Actress awards from a variety of film festivals including Nightmares Film Festival, Hollywood Horrorfest, GenreBlast Film Festival, and Oregon Scream Week. The film also won Best Horror Short at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and Best Original Screenplay, as well as over 30 awards for various aspects of the film. She also teaches Hebrew to sixth and seventh graders in Los Angeles and works as an acting coach and mentor for kids and adults at Kid (F)Actor, a company she founded in 2010. Boo is the second production from Cyclamen Films, Rakefet's production company that produced Jax in Love. She is represented across the board at Bohemia Group in LA and New York.

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Rakefet Abergel

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Backwoods Bubba

Backwoods Bubba

Associate Producer

Bubba Wayne Bundy along with the help of his brother John Edward Bundy are two madman who gets off on kidnapping woman and dressing them up.

Do We Really Have to Say Goodbye

Do We Really Have to Say Goodbye

Ryan and Jacob have been together for 4 years. They had planned to get married in the summer of 2020. Then a pandemic hit. And Jacob got sick. To make matters worse, because of the nature of the virus, Ryan was not allowed to visit Jacob in the hospital. Nor was he there when Jacob died. But before his passing, Jacob had recorded a message on his phone for Ryan. Now, Ryan has travelled to their favorite beach to watch the video message and to say goodbye - even though going outside places Ryan in immediate, physical danger.

Location Manager

A science experiment gone horribly right.

Jax

A science experiment gone horribly right.

Story

A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.

Writer

A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.

Director

A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.

Devi

A traumatic event forces a recovering addict to face her demons, without her worried fiancé uncovering the truth.

Casting

Jax, a lonely wanderer, is searching for a human connection, when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Will she make it out of the desert alive?

Executive Producer

Jax, a lonely wanderer, is searching for a human connection, when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Will she make it out of the desert alive?

Writer

Jax, a lonely wanderer, is searching for a human connection, when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Will she make it out of the desert alive?

Jax

Jax, a lonely wanderer, is searching for a human connection, when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Will she make it out of the desert alive?

Trainee #1

Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

Just Go with It

Just Go with It

Patricia

While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh

Janet

Step brothers Drake and Josh must give a foster family the best Christmas ever or face years in jail for a Christmas party gone wrong.

My Best Friend's Girl

My Best Friend's Girl

Heavily Pierced Kid

When Dustin's girlfriend, Alexis, breaks up with him, he employs his best buddy, Tank, to take her out on the worst rebound date imaginable in the hopes that it will send her running back into his arms. But when Tank begins to really fall for Alexis, he finds himself in an impossible position.

Daddy's Big Girl

Daddy's Big Girl

Millie

Overweight and uninspired Millie attempts to finally reconcile with her gay father, but his half-dressed male companions keep getting in the way.

Muffin Selby

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.