Born in Israël in 1965, with a degree in Oriental Language and Civilisations, Yaël Fogiel began her career in cinema as a sales manager and production manager for the production company Lapsus (France). In 1994 she co-founded Les Films Du Poisson with Laetitia Gonzalez. Their first production Madame Jacques Sur la Croisette, written and directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, won the César (French Oscar) for best short film in 1997. Since then, they produced more than 100 features, documentaries and shorts. With her following productions - Voyages by Emmanuel Finkiel (César for the Best First Feature Film and the Louis Delluc prize 1999), Since Otar Left… (César for the Best First Feature Film and the Grand Prize of the Critics Cannes 2003) by Julie Bertuccelli, Jellyfish (Golden Camera – Cannes 2007) by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, On Tour by Mathieu Amalric and The Tree by J. Bertuccelli (both showns in the Official Competition in Cannes 2010), etc. - Yaël Fogiel has shown her commitment towards international independent cinema, both sensitive and with a strong message to achieve a great public and critical success. In 2010, Fogiel and Gonzalez were awarded Best Producer of the Year at the César and earned the Personality of the Year Award of Le Film Français. In 2013, their production The Gatekeepers by Dror Moreh received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. Aside from her productions, Yael Fogiel represented France for « Producer on the Move » in Cannes in 2000. She has been for over 4 years a member of the National Center of Cinema’s selective committee (Avance sur recettes) and has also participated in several festivals as jury member. She was a lecturer at the French national cinema school, la Femis.
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