{{short description|Israeli film director}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2025}} {{update|date=January 2025}}
'''Nitzan Gilady''' (also known as '''Nitzan Giladi'''; {{langx|he|ניצן גלעדי}}) is an Israeli film director who has written, produced and directed the documentary films ''In Satmar Custody'' (2003),<ref name="toi1">{{cite news |last1=Klug |first1=Lisa |title=Filmmaker goes from toilet paper factory to world tour |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/filmmaker-goes-from-toilet-paper-factory-to-world-tour/ |access-date=2 January 2025 |work=The Times of Israel |date=11 July 2016 |issn=0040-7909}}</ref> ''Jerusalem Is Proud to Present'' (2008), ''The Last Enemy'' and ''It runs in the Family'' (2010).
His films have received 13 international awards, participated in over 120 international film festivals and been broadcast on TV channels across the world, including Sundance Channel and ZDF-ARTE. His TV work includes: ''Singing to Oblivion - The Story of Miri Aloni'', ''Do Not Call Me Black 2008'' and ''Dark Southern Deal''.
The short fiction drama ''Queens Up'' directed by Gilady has participated at the international Jerusalem Film Festival and received an Audience Award at [https://sedicicorto.it/en/ Sedicicorto - Forli International film festival].
In 2004, he received a grant for the art of cinema initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport given to outstanding Israeli filmmakers and film professionals.
Gilady is a graduate of the Academy of Arts "Circle in the Square" in New York and has been a senior lecturer for eight years at the Visual Communication Department of the Holon Institute of Technology.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nitzan Gilady |url=https://www.csusm.edu/sofa/art-media-and-design/faculty/nitzan_gilady.html |website=California State University San Marcos |access-date=26 June 2025}}</ref>
==Filmography==
===Director=== *1999: ''The Last Enemy'' (documentary)<ref name="toi1" /> *2003: ''In Satmar Custody'' (documentary)<ref name="toi1" /> *2007: ''Zugaim dama'' (TV movie) *2008: ''Jerusalem Is Proud to Present'' (documentary) *2010: ''It runs in the Family'' (documentary) *2015: ''Wedding Doll'',<ref name="toi1" /> winner of the Anat Pirchi Award for Best First Film and Honorary Mention to an Israeli Debut within the FIPRESCI Award for Best First Film at the 2015 Jerusalem Film Festival<ref>{{cite web |title=2015 Festival |url=https://jff.org.il/en/article/6793 |website=Jerusalem Film Festival |access-date=2 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
===Producer=== *2003: ''In Satmar Custody'' *2008: ''Jerusalem Is Proud to Present'' *2015: ''Wedding Doll''
===Actor=== *1997: ''Dream Land'' as Kamael *1999: ''Shabbat'' as Yoni (short)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official site}} * {{IMDb name|id=0317908}}
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