ZVIKA GREGORY PORTNOY

director of the film “8th Day of Khamsin”

He studied at the BEZALEL Academy of Art and Design and the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, majoring in film directing and visual arts. He has been living and working in Poland since 2011. He is the cinematographer of the award-winning documentaries “15 Corner of the World” directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz, and “Light Years” directed by Monika Próba. He completed the Zagreb Dox Pro, Doc Lab Poland and Baltic Sea Docs workshops with his feature-length directorial debut “Dramas”, which premiered at the Kraków Film Festival. As a director and cinematographer, he cooperated with Polish Television (documentary series "Dzika Muzyka", Television Theatre, feature series), Viaplay platform (documentary series Human to Human) and others. He has also directed audiovisual publications on contemporary music and choreography (in cooperation with Bolt Records, National Museum in Warsaw) and is the translator of the comic book Tunele by Rutu Modan.