Ori Sivan
| Ori Sivan | |
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Ori Sivan on set, directing Barefoot, 2011
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| Born |
July 30, 1963 San Francisco, California, United States |
| Residence | Community village South of Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Occupation | Filmmaker: Film director, Film screenwriter, Television director, Television screenwriter |
| Years active | 1996–present |
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| Spouse(s) | Galit Sivan (1991-present) |
| Children | 5 |
Ori Sivan (Hebrew: אורי סיון) (born July 30, 1963 in San Francisco, California) is an Israeli film and television director and screenwriter. In a career spanning over two decades, he covered feature films, TV drama, TV movies, and documentaries. Sivan and his work won 11 Israeli Film Academy Awards, as well as international film awards, across all the above fields of film making. Sivan is the co-creator of In Treatment, the first Israeli TV drama series to ever be sold for re-make in the US (to HBO), followed by re-make in over 20 countries.
In parallel to his film making career, Sivan teaches film in the Israeli and US academia since 1996, and engages in writing for the Israeli written and online press. He is married to Galit Sivan, has 5 children, and live in community village South of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ori Sivan was born on July 30, 1963 in San Francisco, California to an Israeli family, while his parents were PhD and Bachelor students in the nearby Berkeley University. His father, Raphael Sivan (1935-2011) was a world-renowned electronics researcher and professor, as well as clinical psychologist, and was former head of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. His mother, Ilana Sivan (born 1941), is a clinical psychologist.
After his parents completed their studies, the family moved to Los Angeles, where his father worked at the local Caltech. Following Los Angeles, the family moved back to Israel, where Sivan spent most of his later childhood in the northern city of Haifa, except for a few additional years the family spent in the US following his father's work as a researcher with NASA's space program in Virginia and as professor at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts.
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