Ruben Amar

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Ruben Amar
Born1974 (age 47–48)
Montpellier, France
OccupationFilm director, Screenwriter & Producer

Ruben Amar (born in 1974 [1] ) is a French screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known for the independent feature film Swim Little Fish Swim and his two last short films Checkpoint and A Girl Like You With a Boy Like Me.

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Career

Early career and short films

Amar attended business school and spent time working for startups and television production companies, [2] then decided to pursue cinema and attended filmmaking workshops in London.

Between 2007 and 2011, he directed several short films, [3] shot in Paris, London, New York and on the Israeli-Palestinian border. These films appeared in many international festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and South by Southwest (SXSW). [4] [ unreliable source? ]

Checkpoint, one of his last short film has premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival [5] in 2011 where it won the Youth Critic Award. [6] The film tells the story of a young Palestinian boy living in the Gaza Strip who accompanies his father on monthly visits to the ruins of a destroyed village. [7] Checkpoint was exhibited worldwide in international film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, [5] Slamdance, [8] Palm Springs International Film Festival, [9] Raindance, [7] and Festival du cinéma méditerranéen de Montpellier. [10] Checkpoint was broadcast by international TV channels (TPS, BeTV, [11] Canal+ Poland, RTBF [12] ). Reviewers praised the film's story and cinematography. [13] [14]

Feature films

A year later, following the success of Checkpoint, Ruben Amar started co-writing, co-directing and co-producing with Lola Bessis their first feature film, Swim Little Fish Swim (2013).

Ruben Amar also produced Nathan Silver's feature film, Thirst Street [15] (2017) with his new production company PaperMoon Films.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

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  5. 1 2 "International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand". clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
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  13. ↑ "MedFilm Festival 2012 - Home". archivio.medfilmfestival.it. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  14. ↑ "Filmmakers explore childhood at Goethe Short Film Fest - Daily News Egypt". dailynewsegypt.com. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  15. ↑ Leo Barraclough. "Damien Bonnard, Lindsay Burdge Join Nathan Silver's 'Thirst Street' - Variety". variety.com. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
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