Lior Shamriz (born September 13, 1978 in Ashkelon, Israel) is a writer, producer, and film director. He currently resides in Berlin. A prolific filmmaker, churning out experimental shorts and two features, Lior Shamriz channels the trickster spirit of the 60's auteurs in his cinema of humorous/political deconstruction. He uses cinema as the perfect space to discuss ideas - about being, truth, class, sexuality and Other. [1] At 18 he moved to Tel Aviv where he started making films, music and taking part in collective art projects. Studied film at the Jerusalem Film School from 2002 until being expelled in 2004. From 2006 until 2009 studied Experimental Media Design at the Institute for Time Based Media, UdK, Berlin. During this time he created dozens of films in various lengths and formats. His featurette "Japan Japan" (2006/7), produced independently with a micro-budget, was presented at about fifty international film festivals, among them the Locarno Film Festival, the Sarajevo Film Festival, MoMA’s New Directors/New Films, BAFICI.[2]