Amir Mann is an Israeli American

Israeli American

Israeli Americans are Americans of Israeli descent. According to the 2000 census, there were 106,839 people of Israeli ancestry in the United States.- Demographics :...

 film-maker. Mann attended the Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts

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 at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

. He met his future wife Dana Janklowicz-Mann while at NYU. Together they formed Rebel Child Productions, an independent film production company and became filmmaking partners.

Mann is arguably best known for directing and producing the 2002 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 Shanghai Ghetto

Shanghai Ghetto (film)

Shanghai Ghetto is a 2002 documentary film produced and directed by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann. Narrated by Martin Landau, the film chronicles the story of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s and their lives in the Shanghai Ghetto....

for which he and his wife shared the Audience Choice Award and the Human Rights Award at the 2002 Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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. Mann also co-wrote an episode of the 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone (2002 TV series)

The Twilight Zone is a 2002 revival of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host....

television series.

Filmography

• The Fifth Patient
  The Fifth Patient
  The Fifth Patient is a 2007 American thriller film written and directed by Amir Mann. The film stars Nick Chinlund as John Reilly, an American national who finds himself in an African hospital where, he learns, he has spent the last two years due to a head injury. He remembers nothing of his past...
  
  (2007)
• Shanghai Ghetto
  Shanghai Ghetto (film)
  Shanghai Ghetto is a 2002 documentary film produced and directed by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann. Narrated by Martin Landau, the film chronicles the story of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s and their lives in the Shanghai Ghetto....
  
  (2002)
• Menace (2001)
• Warsaw Story (1996)

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