Yair Raveh is better known as one of Israel’s leading film critics. His film column currently runs in “Calcalist” (Israel’s largest financial newspaper). “Cinemascope”, his film blog and podcast, is among the most popular online film content in Hebrew. In recent years Yair has branched out to documentary filmmaking, where he has become a biographer and historian for the history of Israeli cinema. He has directed the documentary “Sharon Amrani: Remember His Name”, co-created the documentary series “Hagiga: The Story of Israeli Cinema”, directed a short documentary about Israeli comedy icon Shlomo Baraba, and directed a documentary about influential Israeli filmmaker, Avi Nesher – the movie opened the 2024 Docaviv Film Festival and was screened at the Palm Springs Film Festival. As a screenwriter he co-created and co-wrote the drama series “Kathmandu”, starring a pre-Wonder Woman Gal Gadot.

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