22 Facts About Dror Soref

Dror Soref is a filmmaker and social reformer who made his directorial debut with the I Love Rocky Road music video for a then unknown "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1983, after attending USC School of Cinema.

Consequently, Dror Soref was retained under contract to develop projects at Paramount Studios for him to write and direct.

In 2003, Soref returned to feature films, co-producing Basic for Columbia Pictures, starring John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson.

In 2009 Dror Soref wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed and Saturn Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Not Forgotten starring Simon Baker, Paz Vega and Chloe Grace Moretz.

Dror Soref was born and raised in Israel and is of Spanish ancestry.

Dror Soref attended the University of Haifa, earning degrees in economics, sociology and anthropology.

Dror Soref's studies were interrupted when as a lieutenant in the elite Golani Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces, Soref was called for service during several military conflicts, including the Yom Kippur War.

The unit under Dror Soref's command was cited for excellence by the IDF Chief-of-Staff.

At the age of 23, while a third-year student, Dror Soref was nominated by his party to run for the Knesset.

One of Dror Soref's articles, Envisioning the Israeli-Palestinian Peace, incorporates the same principles as the first peace treaty between the parties, known as the Oslo Accords, but written more than a decade earlier.

Success in music video field lead Dror Soref to directing Platinum Blonde, an inspirational short film starring Karen Black and a fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Berkley.

Consequently, Dror Soref was retained under contract to develop projects at Paramount Studios for him to write and direct.

In 1997 Dror Soref dabbled in episodic television, directing a number of episodes of Power Rangers, the hit children's TV series.

Dror Soref executive-produced or directed over one hundred TV commercials or music videos, leading Orbit to become one of the fastest growing commercial production companies at that time with clients including such brands as Ford, Coca-Cola, Toyota, McDonald's, and Fujifilm.

Dror Soref later parlayed a successful career in television and commercials into feature films, signing a multiple-picture deal with Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures with one of them for Dror Soref to direct.

In early 2009, Dror Soref completed Not Forgotten, a film he directed, co-wrote and produced, starring Simon Baker, Paz Vega, Claire Forlani, and Chloe Grace Moretz in her first major film role.

In June 2011, Dror Soref served as one of the producers of Twist: An American Musical based on the Charles Dickens' classic.

In 2012 Dror Soref directed the experimental short film Morning, exploring the parallels between the love of Man and God, and that of man and woman.

In January 2014, Dror Soref founded a multiplatform studio titled Nova Filmhouse, Inc According to the company's website the studio offers content across all platforms "from smartphone to multiplex".

Dror Soref has been a campaigner for humanitarian endeavors since youth, from caring and feeding the homeless on skid row locally, to support causes in the third world, while fighting injustice anywhere.

On September 11,2015, Dror Soref, was charged with numerous accusations relating to the movie Not Forgotten.

Dror Soref has Directed two independent feature films working with actors including Peter O'Toole, Simon Baker, and Paz Vega.