Omer Ben-Shachar - Sundance Collab

Omer Ben-Shachar is a writer/director most recently named a 2026 Young Guns winner by The One Club for Creativity. His debut short film Tree #3 won a Student Academy Award, his follow-up short Single Residency Occupancy earned the Academy Award-qualifying Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the Atlanta Film Festival, and his latest short Houston, We Have A Crush is currently on the festival circuit, with wins at Leeds and Guadalajara, and selections at SXSW Sydney, Palm Springs, Urbanworld, NewFest, and Austin, among others.

Omer has directed music videos and commercials featured in Rolling Stone, Billboard, Nowness, Directors’ Library, and at the Hammer Museum's Flux Series, earning multiple Vimeo Staff Picks, a Webby Award, and a Cannes Lions Young Directors Award nomination. He is a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Directing Program, where he received the Richard P. Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award, and has been a fellow of Film Independent’s Project Involve and Screenwriting Lab, the Warner Bros. Television Directors Workshop, and Paramount’s Directing Program.

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Sundance Challenge

An Act of Kindness

This challenge closed April 30, 2020.

An Act of Kindness

During challenging times, there are always "helpers" to be found that remind us of the kindness of strangers. Write a scene/sequence about a character who experiences an "all is lost moment" who fortuitously receives the help of a stranger.

Self-Paced Course

Directing Actors

With: Tessa Blake and 2 more

$375

Directing Actors

Beginner to Intermediate

With: Tessa Blake, Kelly Pike and Omer Ben-Shachar

In just eight weeks, an accomplished director will give you the tools to transform a script into a roadmap that takes your vision from ideas to final cut. In this introductory level self-paced course, you'll explore and experiment with how to approach your collaboration with actors from auditions to working on set.

$375