Omer Ben-Shachar

Omer Ben-Shachar is an award-winning writer and director. His work has been supported by the Academy, BAFTA, Film Independent, AFI, Warners Bros., Paramount, and the Television Academy. Omer’s latest short, SINGLE RESIDENCE OCCUPANCY (2024) premiered at the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival and was recently named the first place winner of the Imagine Entertainment & Adobe ShortFest. His experimental short, DOWN HERE (2022) was a Webby Award Winner, named Best of Vimeo Staff Picks, and was nominated for a Cannes Lions Young Directors Award. Omer’s AFI Thesis film, TREE #3 (2019), won a Student Academy Award, Urbanworld’s Best Young Creator Award, Palm Spring’s Audience Award, was nominated for a Student Emmy, and screened at over 100 festivals around the world.

He was a 2024 Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow, a 2023 Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow, a participant of the 2020 Warner Bros. TV Directors’ Workshop and the 2019 Paramount’s Viewfinder Directors Program. Omer is a graduate of the AFI Conservatory, where he received the Richard P. Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award for Directing. Beyond his narrative work, Omer has directed music videos featured on Rolling Stone, Billboard, Directors’ Library, Nowness and at the Hammer Museum's Flux Series. Omer is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) as well as a BAFTA Connect Member.