Aug 13, 2019
Guy Nattiv is an Academy Award® winning filmmaker from Israel.
His first American short film, SKIN, won the 2019 Academy Award®
for Best Live Action Short, along with many festivals around the
world United States, Best Live Action Short FilmFrance, 2019,
Clermont-Ferrand, Audience AwardUnited States, 2018, HollyShorts
FF, Best Short Film Grand PrizeFrance, 2019, ECU European
Independent FF, Special Jury AwardUnited States, 2018, San Jose
IShFF , Best Short Film. It was acquired by FOX Searchlight. 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 USA, 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.
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