1. Guy Nattiv is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and producer who lives and works in the United States.
15 Facts About Guy Nattiv
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Guy Nattiv graduated in 2012 from Camera Obscura film school in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Guy Nattiv served as head copywriter and then chief creative director for the advertising agency Publicis Groupe for seven years.
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Guy Nattiv began his career as a film director and screenwriter in 2002 directing his graduate short film at Camera Obscura film school in Tel-Aviv, The Flood, which won dozens of international film festivals around the world including the Crystal Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for best short film.
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In 2010, Guy Nattiv wrote and directed his second feature Mabul aka The Flood which was nominated for 4 Israeli Ophir Awards.
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Guy Nattiv's third feature film Magic Men is a journey of a father and son in northern Greece, following a Greek magician who has disappeared.
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Erez and Guy Nattiv co-directed the film, produced by Shemi Sheinfeld and Amitan Menelson with the investment of the Rabinowitz Foundation and Channel 10.
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Guy Nattiv directed and wrote a 12-minute short film called Dear God starring Lior Ashkenazi and Raymond Amsalem, a poetic drama about the Western Wall guard, who follows a mysterious woman who comes to the Western Wall every day and at the end of each day, the guard reads the notes she writes and buries them in the Western Wall.
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Tadmor and Guy Nattiv pointed out that Dear God is actually part of a trilogy where it joins Offside and Strangers as the last of the trilogy of short films without dialogue that they directed together.
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Guy Nattiv co-wrote the script with Sharon Maimon, based on Maimon's original idea.
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In 2023 Guy Nattiv teamed up with director Zar Amir Ebrahimi, from a screenplay by Guy Nattiv and Elham Erfani and made the film TATAMI and its Asian premiere at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 25,2023.
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Guy Nattiv's Harmonia has cast Naomi Watts, Vicky Krieps, Bella Ramsey and Odessa Young as Embankment Films, Range Media Partners and CAA Media Finance launch pre-sales ahead of Cannes.
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Guy Nattiv has been an official member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2019.
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In 2024, Guy Nattiv was inducted as a new member of European Film Academy.
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In 2012, Guy Nattiv married actress and producer Jaime Ray Newman.