Oren Rosenfeld
Oren Rosenfeld | |
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Oren Rosenfeld filming in Jerusalem, 2012 | |
Born |
Jerusalem, Israel | January 29, 1976
Occupation | Film director, producer, journalist. |
Years active | 1999-present |
Oren Rosenfeld is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, photojournalist and film producer. His work was instrumental in photo documenting the Second Intifada.[1]
Career
Since 1999, he has worked as a photojournalist covering major events in Israel and the larger region.
In 2010, he founded Holy Land Productions which has grown to be a major documentary production company in the region. Projects for National Geographic, the BBC, and the History Channel. Holy Land productions also serves Middle East and Africa.
In October 2016, he directed, produced and co wrote Israel's Arab Warriors for the BBC.[2] In the film, he and cowriter Jane Corbin followed the first unit of Israeli Arab soldiers to serve in the Israeli occupied West Bank.
Oren Rosenfeld has recently completed Directing and Producing Hummus the Movie and also projects for VICE News, National Geographic and the BBC. And Directing and filming a new Documentary in Mumbai,India about the "Baghdadi Jews". Oren recently returned from filming in Ethiopia for the new Documentary "Mekonen".
Hummus The Movie stirred controversy when the Guinness Book of World records refused to send representatives to judge the world's largest plate of Hummus due to alleged security concerns.[3]
References
- ↑ "On the Agenda - B'Tselem". btselem.org. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ↑ Corbin, Jane (8 November 2016). "Israel's Arab soldiers who fight for the Jewish state". Retrieved 12 February 2017 – via www.bbc.com.
- ↑ "15-ton hummus record bid ‘foiled’ by Guinness security jitters". timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oren Rosenfeld. |
- Oren Rosenfeld seeks the Humanity of Hummus
- Guinness Book of Records Won’t Send Judge to Israel for 15 Ton Hummus Plate Record Attempt
- Hummus and the Wild, Wild Middle East
- Hummus the Movie at the New York Jewish Film Festival
- Filmmakers Michal Lee Sapir and Oren Rosenfeld in person for Screening of Hummus the Movie
- Oren Rosenfeld's Hummus! The Movie, in its Chicago premiere