Daniel Syrkin (Hebrew: דניאל סירקין B. 4 March 1971, Moscow

Moscow

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, Russia

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) is an Israel

Israel

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i cinema

Film

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 and TV director

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 and screen-writer.

Syrkin moved to Jerusalem, Israel, in his childhood. He was first exposed to acting while attending the René Cassin

René Cassin

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 French high school, where he participated in the Katron drama program. After graduating high school, in 1989, Syrkin was an IDF

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 officer.

Syrkin graduated the Tel-Aviv University's School of Cinema. As a thesis project at the School of Cinema, he directed the short movie And Now Rachmaninov (עכשיו רחמימוב, Achshav Rachmaninov, 1998) that won a price in a film festival in Italy

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.

Syrkin has had a successful professional career in Israel, with many of his films winning prestigious international prizes and participating in major film festivals across the globe. His film Out of Sight (2006) won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Director.

Selected filmography

• London Pinat Ben Yehuda (2009), documentary TV series (winner Israeli Academy Award for the Best Documentary and also an Israeli Documentary Film Award for the Best Documentary Series)
• A Fool's Dream (2007) documentary (special distinction award Jerusalem Film Festival)
• Screenz (2007) TV series (unknown episodes)
• Horey Hahalomot (2006) TV mini-series
• Lemarit Ain (2006) (winner Israeli Academy Award Best Director; presented at the Cannes Film Festival, 2006)) ... aka Out of Sight (International: English title)
• Hallelujah (2003)
• Shtey dakot miparadis (2002) (TV) aka "Two Minutes from Faradis" (winner of Best Short Drama Israeli Academy Award, winner of Best Short Drama at the Banff, Monte Carlo and Tout Ecran Festivals)
• Zakuta (2001) (TV) ... aka Shofar (Israel: Hebrew title)
• Shotetut (2001) TV series (unknown episodes)
• Take Away (2001) TV series (episode "Glida Vanil")
• Achshav Rachmaninov (1998) ... aka And Now Rachmaninov
• Take Away (2001) TV series (writer) (episode Glida Vanil)
• Achshav Rachmaninov (1998) (director and writer) ... aka And Now Rachmaninov (Special Prize Torino Film Festival)

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