Itamar Alcalay (Israeli/German) graduated from The Midrasha – Beit Berl Art and Film School in Kfar Saba, Israel, in 2000. For several years, he directed short films and collaborated on video projects with local artists as an editor and photographer. In 2007 he directed his first documentary film Stefan Braun which won the Israeli Best First Film award in 2008 at the Documentary Forum, in addition to the Jerusalem Film Festival’s award for best photography. In 2009 he directed a three-episode documentary series, Dancing with tears in my eyes and was accepted to a residency in Berlin to write the script for his first feature film, Cascade of Glass. In 2010 he is working on City Escape, a new, five episode documentary series, in addition to a documentary film, Baytel, and his first music album, Hut.
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