Amir Bar-Lev

Amir Bar-Lev (born in 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Berkeley, California.

Bar-Lev is noted for his work in directing documentary films. He has directed such films as Fighter, a documentary film released August 24, 2001. The film received a Special Jury Citation in the 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The 2007 documentary film My Kid Could Paint That was directed by Bar-Lev, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was bought by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007. He also served as co-producer of the 2009 Oscar nominated documentary Trouble the Water. Bar-Lev also directed The Tillman Story, which premiered as a Domestic Documentary Finalist at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Bar-Lev is currently directing Happy Valley, a film about the Penn State Jerry Sandusky Scandal.

Bar-Lev has taught documentary filmmaking at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

Director/Producer

According to IMDB Bar-Lev has directed or produced the following works:

• Happy Valley (2014) (director)
• The Tillman Story (2010) (director)
• Trouble the Water (2008) (co-producer)
• My Kid Could Paint That (2007) (director)
• It Could Happen Tomorrow (2006) TV series (producer) (unknown episodes)
• Katrina (2006) (TV) (producer)
• Sundance Film Festival Dailies (2003) TV series (segment producer)
• VH1: All Access (2003) TV series (producer) (unknown episodes)
• Fighter (2000) (director)
• Yet-to-be-named 50th Anniversary documentary about the Grateful Dead produced by Martin Scorsese (2015)

External links

• Axis Films
• Amir Bar-Lev at the Internet Movie Database
• interview with My Kid Could Paint That director Amir Bar-Lev at Filmmaker Magazine
• IONCINEMA.com interview with Amir Bar-Lev for My Kid Can Paint That
• IONCINEMA.com interview with Amir Bar-Lev for The Tillman Story
• Film makers profiles Amir Bar-Lev Yahoo Video