Omer Ben-Shachar

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.