Erez Laufer is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and editor. Laufer, a graduate of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies moved to the US after his graduation where he worked as an editor alongside some of the most esteemed names in the industry, including D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hedgedus, on a number of films such as Woodstock Diary (1994), and The War Room (1993) which was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature category. On his return to Israel, Laufer began making a string of documentaries, many of which followed the path he had already started on back on the US, focusing on subjects who are musicians, cultural icons, and politicians, whilst maintaining (so-called) minimal intervention on the director’s part.
Highlights of his directorial credits include Yehuda Poliker – Face to Face (1995), Don’t Cry for me, Edinburgh (1995), Zehava Ben – The Solitary Star (1997), Mother Cinderella (1998), Total Loss (2000), Mike Brant – Laisse-moi t’aimer (2002) which made the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival and won an Ophir Award for Best Documentary Feature, Cry of the Owl: The Himba in Namibia (2005) which was shown at multiple festivals in Israel and around the world, and took home the Jury Prize at the Jules Verne Festival in Paris, The Darien Dilemma (2006), Rafting to Bombay (2009), One Day After Peace (2011), and Rabin in his Own Words (2015) which was also a fixture at countless Israeli and international film festivals, and a winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Haifa International Film Festival.
