Doron Eran is a director and producer. Eran took his first filmmaking steps when he teamed up with director, Yehud Levanon, for whom he produced the 1983 box office smash hit, The Boarding School (‘hapnimiyah’). Following the film’s tremendous success, Eran soon became one of the most prolific producers working in Israel. He was a frequent collaborator of high calibre directors such as Uri Barbash, Menahem Golan, and Arnon Zadok, producing over 50 films in total, including Burning Land (Serge Ankri, 1983) which won a Critics’ Choice Award at the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema, Crazy Weekend (Ilan Hensonson, 1984), Dawn (Miklós Jancsó, 1984) which made the official selection for that year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Stalin’s Disciples (Nadav Levitan, 1987) that was featured at the Cannes Film Festival’s ‘Un Certain Regard’ section, Magic Samson (Dubi Gal, 1988), Joshua, Joshua (Avi Cohen, 1988), April Fool (Menahem Zilberman, 1989), Where Eagles Fly (Uri Barbash, 1990), Beyond the Walls II (Uri Barbash, 1992), Overdose (Shmuel Imberman, 1993), To be a Star (Arnon Zadok, 2003), Days of Love (Menahem Golan, 2003), A Dangerous Dance (Menahem Golan, 2007), Wild Dogs (Arnon Zadok, 2007), and The Red Hood Setup (Arnon Zadok, 2014).
Highlights of his directorial credits include Flash (1986), Freedom: The Voice of Ein-Harod (aka Doomsday) (1990), God’s Sandbox (2003) that was shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Melting Away (2011) which was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival, Snapshot (2016), and Betrayal (2021).
