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Yoav Shamir profile
Director

Yoav Shamir

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 227954

IMDb ID: nm1516376

Known for: Directing

Born: November 6, 1970

Age: 55

Place of birth: Tel Aviv, Israel

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2003 - 2020

Years active: 18

Wikidata: Q8054208

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Director (2)Cinematography (1)Writer (1)

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yoav Shamir is an Israeli documentary filmmaker most noted for the films Checkpoint and Defamation. Shamir's films have received awards from independent film festivals including Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Shamir's viewpoint of Israeli political policies in his documentaries made him a focal point of criticism and garnered accusations of anti-semitism. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yoav Shamir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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