Erez Tadmor is a screenwriter and director, and a graduate of Tel Aviv’s Camera Obscura School of Arts’ Department of Film and Television. To date, Tadmor has been one of the 21st century’s most prolific Israeli filmmakers. In 2001 he directed Moosh, his graduation film project that went on to win multiple awards at festivals all over the world, including the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
After graduation, Tadmor teamed up with one of his fellow Camera Obscura alums, director Guy Nattiv, and the pair co-directed the short Strangers. The film was shown at dozens of festivals all over the world and won the award for Best Short, both at the Jerusalem and Sundance film festivals.
After Offside (2006), their second short film together won the Manhattan Festival top prize – full funding for a feature-length film – Tadmor and Nattiv decided to take Offside and adapt it into just that. The following year (2007), the feature-length version of Offside came out. It too was shown at countless festivals around the world.
In 2009, Tadmor and Sharon Maymon co-directed the blockbuster A Matter of Size, which told the story of a group of heavyweight individuals who decide to start a sumo club together. The film was watched by over 240,000 viewers in cinemas, and was a festival darling all over the world, including at Tribeca and Karlovy Vary where at the latter, it took home an Audience Choice Award. In Israel, the film won three Ophir Awards for Best Female Lead (Irit Kaplan), Best Supporting Actress (Levana Finkelstein), and Best Costume Design (Inbal Shuki).
In 2013 Tadmor directed Magic Men, his third feature film and fourth collaboration with Nattiv. Leading man Makram Khoury won an Ophir Award for Best Male Lead in a Motion Picture for his performance in the film. Tadmor and Nattiv’s fruitful collaboration carried over into 2014 when the duo co-directed the short, Dear God.
In 2017, Tadmor directed Sirens that won an Ophir Award for Best Short. Then, two years later in 2019, he repeated what he had done with Offside and put out a feature-length version of the film under the new title, The Art of Waiting. Highlights of his other directorial credits include Wounded Land (2015) that earned him an Ophir Award for Best Director whilst lead actor, Roy Assaf, also took home an Ophir for Best Male Lead in a Motion Picture, Homeport (2016), and Children of Nobody (aka Street Smart) (2021).
