User:Docmovies/Uri Rosenwaks

An Israeli independent film-maker (Born 1965); embarked on his creative career in 1991 and from then on he has directed, written and produced many documentary, fictional and current affair projects for television and cinema winning awards and critical acclaim.

Fiction
His graduation film Saturday of the Groom (fictional 1991) won the Israeli Film Institute Award for film of the year 1992 and The Israeli Directors Guild award for best director. He directed Angel Eyes (1996) a Television drama part of the series Short Stories about Love produced by Hagi Levi (In Treatment); and Detective in Jerusalem a TV mini sieres produced by Assaf Amir (Broken Wings). Both projects were nominated for the Israeli Ophir Awards.

Television
For 14 years (1994- 2008) was a director and staff member of "Fact" (Uvda) Israel’s leading investigating and current affairs television news program. Wrote and directed over 60 documentary reports. Directed and co-developed The Food Trail a 33 part series about food, families and culture in Israel and around the world. (Produced by Assaf Amir) nominated for the Israeli Ophir Awards.

Documentary
Directed over 20 Documentary films and also produced many of them. He is involved in an ongoing cinematic project in the Bedouin city of Rahat located in the Negev Desert in the southern part of Israel. In 2003 Rosenwaks founded a film class for Bedouin women in Rahat. What began as a modest afternoon course for teaching the use of a video–camera evolved into a full scale documentary workshop that has already produced two films. The Film-Class which premiered in the Jerusalem Film Festival 2006 and won the Israeli Documentary TV Film of the year award for 2007 was the first project; followed by Back and Forth which Rosenwaks produced and is made out of four short stories all directed by Bedouin directors on their professional debut. His long term commitment working as a film maker within Bedouin society has gained him vast knowledge on this indigenous society its narratives, conflicts and problems on which he is an avid and fluent speaker in Hebrew and English. He is a graduate in Film and Television and has a master degree in Near East Studies both from Tel Aviv University. He is currently the chairman of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum.