Oren Rosenfeld (born 29 January 1976) is an Multi-Emmy Award winning Israeli documentary filmmaker,

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, and

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Career

Rosenfeld was born in Jerusalem on 29 Januar 1976. He started his career as a photojournalist covering the 2nd Palestinian Intifada. In October 2016, he Directed and co-wrote

Israel's Arab Warriors ''Israel's Arab Warriors'' is a BBC Arabic documentary shot over six months by a team that gained access to the Gadsar Nahal - the all-Arab unit of (500 and growing) of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The documentary aired to over 10 million ...

for the BBC. In the film, he and cowriter

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followed the first unit of Israeli Arab soldiers to serve in the West Bank. Rosenfeld's award-winning film '' Hummus The Movie'' stirred controversy when the

Guinness Book of World records ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...

refused to send representatives to judge the world's largest plate of hummus due to alleged security concerns. In 2017 Rosenfeld joined

to write and Direct '' The Real Fauda'', a BBC documentary about the real story behind the hit Netflix drama

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. Rosenfeld discussed the nature of the documentary, and the uniqueness of the project for I24 News In early 2018, Rosenfeld returned to India to continue production of Mumbai Jews a film about the long established Jewish community in

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, and the significance or their cultural, social and political contributions to India. Mumbai Jews touches the story of Moshe Holtzberg, one of the survivors of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. He was almost two years old when the attack orphaned him. Rosenfeld follows his return, 10 years later. The story focuses on Holtzberg's nanny Sandra Samuel In 2010 Oren Founded his production company Holy-Land Productions. Rosenfeld's latest wor
Lost in Paradise Goa
won the LIAFF award for Best Short Documentary. In 2022 Rosenfeld won his second Emmy Award for his camera work for Vice News Battle for Jerusalem.

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Oren Rosenfeld seeks the Humanity of Hummus

Guinness Book of Records Won’t Send Judge to Israel for 15 Ton Hummus Plate Record Attempt

Hummus and the Wild, Wild Middle East

Hummus the Movie at the New York Jewish Film Festival

Filmmakers Michal Lee Sapir and Oren Rosenfeld in person for Screening of Hummus the Movie

Oren Rosenfeld's Hummus! The Movie, in its Chicago premiere
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