Kobi Mizrahi

34, Graduated from the Film and Television Department of Tel-Aviv University. In 2018 took part at the Rotterdam producers' lab, Berlin talent campus and Cannes producers' workshop. Recipient of the Ministry of Culture award 2018. Producer of feature and documentary films, his first feature The Dive won 4 awards in Jerusalem International Film Festival 2018 (including best feature award), won 2 awards in Locarno, screened in Toronto and AFI Fest among other film festivals. Produced Israeli-Palestinian omnibus projects: SPORT (2015, Rome FF, Mostra Sao Paulo FF), WATER (2012, Opened critics' week, Venice FF, Busan, won Amnesty International award 2013), and Jerusalem Moments 2012 (JFF). TV series 24 hours with… based on the ITV British format for Keshet Broadcasting (Channel 2) and NOGA Communications (Channel 8). Flavors from the Golan Heights, Documentary (Channel 10). The Documentarists (Channel 1, nominated Israeli TV academy awards for best documentary series). In addition, produced numerous short films which have been screened in international film festivals, among them Shmama (winner of Pardino d'argento, Locarno 2017), The Babysitter (winner best fiction short, Montreal 2017), Open your eyes (Clermont Ferrand, Palm Springs shortfest 2018), Mother of (Telluride 2018), Butterflies (Cannes, Toronto 2019). Currently working on feature films: Decompression 2nd feature by Yona Rozenkier, won the Jerusalem film lab 2016, participated in Cannes Atelier 2017, and won Jerusalem Pitch-Point award at JFF 2017, Israeli-Swiss-French co-production, currently in financing. Takotsubo, debut feature by Miki Polonski, received development grant from Rabinovich fund for the arts and from the new fund for cinema and tv. The project was awarded the top prize at the Industry Village Les Arcs, and took part in Torino script lab 2019, currently in financing.