Tomer Heymann

Tomer Heymann was born in Kfar Yedidia in Israel in 1970 and 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". "Paper Dolls" won three awards at the Berlin Film Festival, two awards at the Identities Film Festival, the "Best International Feature" award at the Los Angeles Festival, "Best Documentary" at the Cinemanila International Film Festival in the Philippines and many more. His film and TV series "Bridge over the Wadi", co-produced with the American ITVS, won the Israeli Documentary Film competition, participated in IDFA Festival's prestigious competition and won many awards around the world. Tomer's 8-part series "The Way Home" won the "Best Documentary Series" award at the 2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival and "Best Documentary Series" at the Israeli Documentary Competition. Tomer also directed documentaries about local culture heroes such as The Singers Aviv Geffen, Idan Raichel ("Black Over White") and the choreographer Ohad Neharin ("Out Of Focus"). Tomer's latest film "I Shot My Love" premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2010 and has been screened at various festivals around the world. The film has won awards at the HotDocs Film Festival, Taiwan Documentary Int'l Film Festival, The Side By Side GLBT Film Festival, The Madrid GLBT Film Festival, The Queer Lisboa GLBT Film Festival and The Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. Tomer's films "Aviv Geffen", "It Kinda Scares Me", "Paper Dolls" and "I Shot My Love" were theatrically released in cinemas in Israel and around the world.