Short Film Directors

Two directors that interested me were Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv the directors of Strangers and Offside. They interested me because of their ability to captivate an audience with tension, drama and suspense whilst exploring issues of religion, culture and the divide that people experience through these aspects.

They are two young writer directors from Tel- Aviv Israel who graduated together from “Camera Obscurs Film School”. This explains the themes they explore through their films and why they direct together. They created Strangers, the short film in 2003 for 20th Century Fox, which got accepted into the Sundance film festival in 2004 and won the award for Best Short. Offside that they directed also won the award for Best Short in the Manhattan International Short Film Festival in 2006. Strangers went on to win many more awards such as the BAFTA LA Award for excellence at the Aspen Shorts fest, Buster’s Youth Jury Award at the Buster International Children’s Film festival, Wolgin Award – special mention at the Jerusalem Film Festival and Jury award at Palm Springs International Short Fest.

They have just finished writing their personal feature film “Son of God” which is the story of a 78 year old Holocaust survivor that goes on a “root journey” with his religious Jewish son to Poland in search of a magician.
Their film Offside also won many awards such as the Short Film Award at the German short Film Awards, the Grand Prize at the Manhattan Short Film Festival, the Jury Award at the Palm springs International Short Fest 2004 and the Reelworld award at Toronto Reelworld Film Festival.

Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv are inspirational award winning writer directors that utilise their views and culture as inspiration for their films. Not only do they specialise in short film but their short film Strangers was then expanded into a feature length film in 2007.

Filmography:

Moosh (2001)(short film)
The Little Prince (2001) (short documentary)
Mabul (2002) (short film)
Strangers (2003) (short film)
All well by me (2005) (feature documentary)
Offside (2006) (short film)
Strangers (2007) (feature film)