Tomer Heymann (born October 12, 1970 in

Kfar Yedidia Kfar Yedidia ( he, כְּפַר יְדִידְיָה, ''lit.'' Yedidia Village) is a moshav in central Israel on the coastal plain. With an area of 3,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a popu ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

) is an

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

. He is best known for his work on the documentary films ''

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'', ''Mr.Gaga'' and '' Who's Gonna Love Me Now?''.

Career

Heymann has directed many documentary films and series in the past ten years, most of them long-term follow-ups and personal documentations. His films won major awards at different prestigious film festivals including his first film ''It Kinda Scares Me''. ''

'' won three awards at the 2006

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and the audience’s award at the

Los Angeles Film Festival The LA Film Festival was an annual film festival that was held in Los Angeles, California, and usually took place in June. It showcased independent, international, feature, documentary and short films, as well as web series, music videos, episod ...

. The film and TV series ''Bridge over the Wadi'', co-produced with the American

ITVS ITVS (Independent Television Service) is a service in the United States which funds and presents documentaries on public television through distribution by PBS and American Public Television, new media projects on the Internet, and the weekly seri ...

, won the Israeli Documentary Film competition, participated in IDFA Festival's prestigious competition and won many awards around the world. Tomer's new 8-part series ''The Way Home'' was recently broadcast by the Yes Doco Channel in Israel and won the best documentary series award at the 2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival. ''I Shot My Love'' premiered at Berlin Int'l Film Festival in 2010, won the Best Mid-length Award at Hotdocs and was screened in major film festival including: Dok/Fest Sheffield, Taiwan Int'l Documentary Film Festival, Kassel Film Festival and more. The 2016 documentary '' Who's Gonna Love Me Now?'', directed by Tomer and his brother Barak Heymann, explores the life of Saar, a gay HIV-positive Israeli man living in London whom Tomer met in Tel Aviv in 1994.

Filmography

* 2000 - Laugh Till I Cry - 45 min * 2001 - It Kinda Scares Me - 57 min * 2003 - Aviv-F*****-up Generation - Documentary 35mm, 60 min * 2004 - Paper Dolls - 6-part series * 2005 - Bridge Over the Wadi - 4-part series * 2006 - Cinderellas - 4-part series * 2006 -

- 35 mm, 80 min * 2006 - Bridge Over The Wadi - 55 min * 2007 - Debut - Hofaat Bechora - 5-part series * 2007 - Out of Focus - 52 min * 2007 - Black Over White - 50 min * 2009 - The Way Home - 8-part series * 2010 - I Shot My Love – 56/70 min * 2015 - '' Mr. Gaga'' - 100 min * 2016 - '' Who's Gonna Love Me Now?'' * 2019 - '' Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life''

Films Festivals and awards

* I Shot My Love - Warsaw Jewish Film Festival *

- Jewish Motifs International Film Festival *Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life - Warsaw Golden Phoenix at Jewish Motifs International Film Festival (2019)

References

External links

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