Nurit Kedar
Nurit Kedar is an Israeli documentary producer and director. In the 1980s she worked in the news department of Channel 1 in Washington. In the early 1990s she returned to Israel, worked for CNN, and became a senior producer for Keshet when it began broadcasting on Channel 2. She produced The Fat Man with Sony, a series starring Yaron London, and with London also created for Keshet the series The Poetics of the Masses, Buddha Pizza Krishna Cola, and Mr Prime Minister.
Her film Istiklal, directed by Nizar Hassan, won the Wolgin Award for Best Israeli Documentary at the 1994 Jerusalem Film Festival.
In a 2008 interview, Kedar spoke about her filmmaking philosophy, saying she is drawn to conflict and crisis, aims to challenge viewers, and that her films are not easy to watch and may be hard for many Israelis to accept.
Her film Asesino, about the Dirty War in Argentina, won the Noga Award at the 2001 Jerusalem Film Festival. The film One Shot, which includes rare interviews with Israeli snipers, earned the 2004 Cologne Conference Phoenix Award. Hanuszka (2006) tells the true story of a Jewish girl who survived the Holocaust.
A segment from Concrete, broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 on January 26, 2011, showed Israeli soldiers in the 2008–09 Gaza war describing their orders and force. After the broadcast, Kedar received threatening messages, and she said Israelis did not express support for making the film.
Kedar and Yaron Shani won the Van Leer Group Foundation Award for Best Documentary Film for Life Sentences at the 2013 Jerusalem Film Festival. Life Sentences also won the Objectif d’or (gold), the grand award, and the Audience Award at the Millennium Film Festival.
In 2015 Kedar received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. In 2016 she received The Art Of Cinema Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
Her film Lieber-man was selected as a Jerusalem Film Festival 2019 nominee for best documentary. Her 2021 film #Schoolyard received a Special Mention at the Jerusalem Film Festival, and in 2022 it won the PriMed (Mediterranean Memory) prize in Marseille, sponsored by INA.
I Cried In Gaza is listed for 2025, with screenings at the Other Israel Film Festival in New York in November 2025.
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