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Guy Nattiv _{(May 24, 1973, Tel Aviv, Israel)}

Guy Nattiv (born May 24, 1973) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and producer who lives and works in the United States.

His film Skin won an Oscar for best short film at the 91st Academy Awards. As of May 2021, Nattiv and Moshe Mizrahi are the only Israeli directors who have won an Academy award.

In 2019, he received IFF Achievement in Film Award at the 33rd Israel Film Festival.

The feature version, also entitled SKIN, stars Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga and Danielle Macdonald, and premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival to significant acclaim, where it won the Fipresci Critics Prize. Its European premiere was at the Berlin International Film Festival, and will also be shown in April at Tribeca. It will be distributed globally by A24 and Voltage in summer 2019.

Before coming to the United States, Nattiv was a lauded director in Israel, where his first feature, Strangers, was in competition at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals in 2008.

His second feature, The Flood, won the Generations prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012 and was nominated for six Ophir Awards, where it won Best Actor.

Magic Men, his third feature, premiered at Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2014, and also won the Ophir Award for Best Actor. A lover of the short form, Nattiv has been crafting award winning shorts for almost two decades.

His first short film, The Flood, won the top prize at Berlin in 2002, his next short Strangers won the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 and was short-listed for the Academy Awards® that year. His short film OFF- SIDE played over 80 festivals worldwide, including Tribeca and Locarno.

Nattiv lives in Los Angeles with his wife/producing partner Jaime Ray Newman, and their daughter, where they run New Native Pictures. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Guy Nattiv

Director - Selected filmography

1. Tatami (2023)