1. Gideon "Gidi" Raff is an Israeli film and television director, screenwriter, and writer.
10 Facts About Gideon Raff
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Gideon Raff is best known for his creation of the Channel 2 thriller drama series Prisoners of War, from which he later co-developed the American version of the series, Homeland.
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Gideon Raff made his feature-length directorial debut in 2007 with The Killing Floor, a psychological thriller.
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Gideon Raff returned to Israel in 2011 for production of the second season of Prisoners of War.
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Gideon Raff has confirmed that he intends to write a third season.
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In December 2012 it was reported that Gideon Raff had sold the pilot for a new TV drama series, Tyrant, to cable TV channel FX after FX won a bidding war against Showtime and HBO.
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In 2017, it was announced that Gideon Raff would write and direct The Spy about the life of Eli Cohen.
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At the 2010 Israeli Academy Awards for Television, Gideon Raff won the award for Best Director for Prisoners of War, which won a total of four awards including Best Dramatic Series.
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At the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, Gideon Raff won the award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, for the pilot episode of Homeland.
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In 2012, as part of a PETA campaign, Gideon Raff wrote to both US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence to protest against use of live animals to train army doctors in battlefield surgery and proposed, with his partner, to become human guinea pigs, to facilitate the learning of surgeons.