People

Gal Greenspan

Israel

Biography

Gal Greenspan was born in 1981 in Tel Aviv. He was accepted to be a member of the first class of the Entrepreneurial Film Production track of the Sam Spiegel School for Film and Television in 2005. During that time he self produced five award-winning short films and launched his career in the local Israeli and international film industry. After graduating, Greenspan joined forces with Roi Kurland, and the two opened Green Productions, a film and promotional production house in Tel Aviv. Since opening its doors, it has gathered a collection of the industry’s most renowned as well as youngest and brightest creatives. It has a wide range of productions in development, has released films such as YOUTH (written and directed by Tom Shoval, Berlinale 2013), A QUIET HEART (written and directed by Eitan Anner, awarded at Locarno’s Carte Blanche 2015), SUMMER VACATION (written and directed by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon, Sundance 2013, shortlisted at the Oscars 2015), SCAFFOLDING (written and directed by Matan Yair, Cannes 2017 ACID Showcase, Best Israeli Feature Film and Best Actor 2017 Jerusalem Film Festival) and MENASHE (written and directed by Joshua Weinstein, Sundance 2017).

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