Shmuel Imberman is a director, producer, and editor. Imberman started out making adverts and corporate videos and is considered to be the forefather of Israeli music videos, thanks to the countless videos he’d directed for many of the country’s top military troupes at the end of the 1960s including The Nahal Band’s hit, In a Red Dress and Two Plaits (‘besimla aduma’) and the Lo Ichpat Lahem (‘they don’t care’) trio’s I’m Dying (‘ani met’). Imberman created and directed the timeless Israeli classic, Hedva and Shlomik (‘hedva ve’shlomik’) (1971) – one of Israeli public television’s first ever drama series. Later on, he continued to make a range of TV specials, documentaries, and subsequent series. Imberman is also an accomplished composer, and his credits include writing the music to beloved Israeli folk-rock singer-songwriter Shlomo Artzi’s hit single, We Don’t Need (‘anchnu lo tzrichim’).
Highlights of Imberman’s directorial credits include Two Heartbeats (1972), Let’s Blow a Million (1977), 5 and 5 (1980), I Don’t Give a Damn (1987), Tel Aviv-Los Angeles (1988), and Overdose (1993).
