15. Guy Nattiv: Winning the Oscar for Best Live Action Short
Guy Nattiv
Guy Nattiv is an Academy Award® winning writer/director from Israel. His first American short film, SKIN, won the 2019 Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short, along with 350 festivals around the world. It was acquired by FOX Searchlight. The feature version, also entitled SKIN, stars Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga and Danielle Macdonald, and premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival to significant acclaim, where it won the Fipresci Critics Prize. Its European premiere was at the Berlin International Film Festival, and played The Tribeca Film Festival. It was distributed globally by A24 and Voltage in 2019.
Before coming to the USA, Nattiv was a lauded filmmaker in Israel, where his first feature, STRANGERS, was in competition at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals in 2008. His second feature, THE FLOOD, won the Generations Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012 and was nominated for six Ophir Awards, where it won Best Actor. MAGIC MEN, his third feature, premiered at Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2014, and also won the Ophir Award for Best Actor.
Nattiv currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife/producing partner Jaime Ray Newman, where they run New Native Pictures.
SHOW NOTES
Academy Awards: https://www.oscars.org
Skin Short Film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7332306/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Fox Searchlight: https://www.searchlightpictures.com/searchlightshorts/
Skin Feature Film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6043142/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6
Jamie Bell: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068260/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Vera Farmiga: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267812/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Danielle McDonald: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4359664/?ref_=tt_cl_t2
Toronto International Film Festival: https://www.tiff.net
Faprici Critics Prize: https://fipresci.org
Berlin International Film Festival: https://www.berlinale.de/en/home.html
Tribeca Film Festival: https://www.tribecafilm.com
Strangers: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064215/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_8
Sundance Film Festival: https://www.sundance.org
The Flood: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433910/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_7
Ophir Award: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophir_Award
Magic Men: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1651951/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_6
Palm Springs International Film Festival: https://www.psfilmfest.org
New Native Pictures: https://www.instagram.com/new_native_pictures/
Jamie Ray Newman: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628120/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Camera Obscura: https://embassies.gov.il/london/culture/IsraeliCulture/Education/Film/Pages/Camera-Obscura-–-The-School-of-Arts.aspx
Bryon Widner: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4751963/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr15
Neo-nazi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism
Hilary Clinton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
Jonathan Tucker: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006958/?ref_=tt_cl_t1
Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Charlottesville Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting
Trudy Styler: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836548/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr14
Sting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)
Cannes: https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/
HollyShorts Film Festival: http://www.hollyshorts.com
IVF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation
Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/browse
HBO: https://www.hbo.com
ICM: https://www.icmpartners.com
Spike Lee: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000490/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com
Two Distant Strangers: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13472984/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
White Eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Eye_(2019_film)