Ilan Moskovitch

Ilan Moskovitch (Hebrew: אילן מוסקוביץ'‎‎; born August 3, 1966), is an Israeli Filmmaker, Producer, Director, Casting Director, Acting Instructor.

Ilan Moskovitch was born and raised in Acre, Israel, second generation to immigrants from Romania, survivors of the Holocaust. His father Meir owned a kiosk in ancient Acre, near the Arabic cinema "Bustan", and his mother Anna worked as a hospital nurse. Moskovitch is a graduate of the cinema department of "Camera Obscura – School of Art" (1992). In the year after his graduation, he worked as a production coordinator and manager for different various TV projects, working with the directors Dan Wolman, Ze'ev Revach and others. In 1995 he met the international Israeli director Amos Gitai. Moskovitch worked as his personal assistant in the movie "Dvarim", and since then the two cooperated in more than twenty movies, many of which were feature films for cinema, including "Free Zone", "Promised Land", "Alila", "Carmel", "Kadosh", "Disengagement", "Kippur", "Eden", "Kedma", "Yom Yom" and "Ana Arabia", in which Moskovitch served as the casting director.

Four of those films: "Kadosh (1999), "Kippur" (2000), Kedma" (2002) and "Free Zone" (2005), participated in the Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival (in which Moskovitch was the artistic consultant and the casting director). Moskovitch was the casting director in the film "Free Zone" in which Hana Laszlo won the Best Actress Prize in 2005 at the Cannes Film Festival, for her role in the film.

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