Years active 1996 - Present Name Duki Dror | Role Director | |
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Occupation Documentary filmmaker, producer, director Website www.dukidror.comwww.zygotefilm.com Education University of California, Los Angeles Movies Partner with the Enemy, Shadow In Baghdad, Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions People also search for Chen Shelach, Erich Mendelsohn, Galia Dror, Paul Saadoun, Yael Shavit, Debbie Irwin, Seann Shaffer | ||
Go2films pbs duki dror special
Duki Dror דוקי (צדוק) דרור Duki (Zadok) Dror دوكي درور درويش (born 1963 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an independent filmmaker whose films deal largely with issues of migration, identity and displacement.
Contents
- Go2films pbs duki dror special
- Sidewalk 2007 dir duki dror trailer
- Early inspiration and education
- Festivals and awards
- Director
- Producer
- References
Sidewalk 2007 dir duki dror trailer
Early inspiration and education
Dror studied in the United States at UCLA and is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. His graduate film, Sentenced to Learn (1993), which tells the story of lifetime inmates in Illinois prisons, was screened in the Pompidou Center in Paris as part of an American Documentary retrospective. In 2010, PBS aired a special series of his documentaries. Dror's films are character-driven stories and deal with issues of identity, displacement and cross-cultural exchange.
In the early 1950s, Dror's parents fled from their native Iraq for the newly established state of Israel. When Dror's father was 17 he was arrested on charges of political activism and ultimately served five years in prison as a political prisoner. Upon his release, Dror's father was not allowed to stay in Iraq and the family ended up leaving for Israel. Arriving in the newly established state of Israel Dror's parents changed their Arabic family name, Darwish (Arabic for "wandering"), to the name Dror (Hebrew for "freedom"). The story behind Dror's parents' emigration to Israel, and his father's story in particular, informs the central dramatic theme in Dror's personal film diary My Fantasia (2000) which takes place in the Dror's family-owned Menorah factory between the First and Second Gulf War. The history, culture and identity of Arab Jews has also informed a number of Dror's other work including Cafe Noah (1996) , and Shadow in Baghdad (2013) about the disappearance of Baghdad's Jewish population.
Festivals and awards
Dror's films have been internationally recognized at numerous festivals.
Raging Dove (2002), the story of Arab-Israeli world boxing champion Johar Lashin, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and won multiple awards, including Best Israeli Documentary in Docaviv. In 2006, Dror's film about the Vietnamese boat people who immigrated to Israel, The Journey of Vaan Nguyen, was the opening film at EBS Film Festival in Seoul and received the Remi Award at Houston Worldfest. In 2012, Dror's film on German-Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions received the Golden Award(FILAF d'Or) at the International Art Book and Film Festival (FILAF) in France. Partner with the Enemy (2014) the winner of the Golden Panda Award for long documentary at Sichuan Television Festival. Down The Deep, Dark Web (2016) – premiered in DOK Leipzig.