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Dan Wolman (born October 28, 1941) is an Israeli filmmaker and lecturer in film studies.
Dan Wolman was born in Jerusalem, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine. His father was Moshe Wolman, a pioneering physician. He spent part of his childhood in Ethiopia.Wolman studied film at the Film Institute of City College New York between 1962 and 1965 and at the New York University film department between 1965 and 1968.
In 1974 and 1978 Wolman taught at the School of Visual Arts and at New York University. In 1981 he taught screenwriting and production at Tel Aviv University. Wolman has been a judge in several international and Israeli film festivals.
One of Wolman's central themes is the nuclear family. Examples are My Michael , the screen adaptation of Amos Oz's book about a married couple, and Foreign Sister, which deals with an Israeli bourgeois family that takes in a foreign worker from Ethiopia. [1]
Wolman received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Silver Hugo award at the Chicago International Film Festival for his "unique vision and innovative work." In January 2015, he was awarded the Arik Einstein prize for his achievements and contribution to Israeli cinema and culture. In 2016, he won the Ophir Lifetime Achievement Award of the Israeli Film Academy. He was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at India's International Film festival of India IFFI in Goa in 2018. [2]
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