Name Amir Bar-Lev | Role Film director | |
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Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Nominations Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary Movies The Tillman Story, My Kid Could Paint That, Happy Valley, Re:Generation, Fighter Similar People Marla Olmstead, John Battsek, Pat Tillman, Molly Thompson, Kevin Tillman |
Happy valley q a with director amir bar lev at afi docs 2014
Amir Bar-Lev (born in 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Berkeley, California.
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Bar-Lev is noted for his work in directing documentary films. He has directed such films as Fighter, a documentary film released August 24, 2001. The film received a Special Jury Citation in the 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The 2007 documentary film My Kid Could Paint That was directed by Bar-Lev, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was bought by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007. He also served as co-producer of the 2009 Oscar nominated documentary Trouble the Water. Bar-Lev also directed The Tillman Story, which premiered as a Domestic Documentary Finalist at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Bar-Lev is currently directing Happy Valley, a film about the Penn State Jerry Sandusky Scandal.

Bar-Lev has taught documentary filmmaking at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

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According to IMDB Bar-Lev has directed or produced the following works: