Hagai Levi Edit Profile
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Hagai Levi is an Israeli film and television director, writer, editor, producer and critic.
Career
Levi is best known for creating, directing and producing the television drama BeTipul and for producing In Treatment, Home Box Office&#;s American adaptation of the show. He also wrote for the drama series Shabatot Vehagim and edited several telenovelas. In February , the American cable channel Showtime ordered a television pilot for a series co-created by Levi.
Titled The Affair, the series focused on relationships told from the points of view of both men and women.
The first episodes of the series was also co-created by fellow In Treatment writer/producer Sarah Treem, but Levi later retired from writing the series, stating that the series took a path different from the one he had envisioned and that Treem was therefore &#;the best person&#; to author the show.
Achievements
Along with Nir Bergman, he won the Israeli Academy&#;s Best Director award for directing BeTipul&#;s first season.
Born in Israel in , Levi created and directed the highly acclaimed Israeli TV series Be'Tipul, (), later adapted to the HBO's series "In Treatment" (), which won several Emmy and Golden Globe awards; Levi was also an executive producer of In Treatment and directed several episodes. Be'Tipul has been adapted and produced in another 16 countries, including Italy, Russia, The Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and more. In Levi co-created and co-produced the series "The Affair", staring Dominic West, which premiered in Showtime network on October In Levi created and directed a 5-hour mini-series, "The Accursed"', for HOT (Israeli cable company). Levi wrote, directed and co-produced the feature film "August Snow" (93'). He created and co-produced the anthology drama series "Short Stories about Love" (; won twice the Israeli Academy Awards' best drama); directed and co-created the medical drama series " ()''; co created and executive produced the daily drama "Love Around the Corner" (, episodes), and directed and co-wrote the TV drama "Premiere" (); among others. Levi a
Hagai Levi
Hagai Levi is an Israeli director and film producer. Born in kibbutz Sha’alvim, Levi is a graduate of Bar Ilan University’s Department of Psychology and Philosophy, and Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies. Levi took his early professional steps as a writer and critic for the now-defunct daily paper, Hadashot and local Tel Aviv magazines, Tel Aviv Times (‘zman Tel Aviv’) and The City (‘Ha’ir.’) In he directed his debut feature film, August Snow and in , created and took part in the making of Short Stories about Love – a nine-part film anthology that included, amongst others, Malka Lev Adom (‘red queen’), Shuly’s Fiance, Gotta Have Heart, and Hatulot Hara’am (‘thunder pussycats’). Levi next produced three documentaries, It Kinda Scares me and Aviv – both directed by Tomer Heymann, and Timna Rosenheimer’s My Sister. Levi, by that point, had created and produced numerous TV series however his big break came with In Therapy, which he developed along with Ori Sivan and Nir Bergman. In Therapy won countless awards and was even sold to US cable network, HBO that produced its own remake (In Treatment), which was the first in a string of many, inter
The Accursed
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Synopsis
An Innovative, groundbreaking project by creator Hagai Levi (In Treatment), The Accursed is a five hours series, investigating the idea of the total artist. Through a unique collage of documentary footage, reenactments and personal biography, the series follows the provocative, scandalous and tragic life of author Pinchas Sadeh, poet Yona Wallach, Philosopher Moshe Kroy and painter Aviva Uri – Israeli key avant-garde figures in Israel of the 's.
"If you watch only one series on television this year, this is the series." Raanan Shaked, Twitter
"innovative, megalomaniacal, bold, and dizzying" Einab Scheiff, Yediot Ahronot
"A groundbreaking new genre in documentary fiction. The Accursed will be studied in film and TV schools." Lilach Wallach, Walla!
Festivals
Israel Film Center Festival (JCC Manhattan), USA, June
Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania, May
MedFilm Festival, Italy, November
FIPA Biarritz, France, January
Australia JFF, Australia, November
Hagai Levi
Born in Israel in , Levi created and directed the highly acclaimed Israeli TV series Be'Tipul, (), later adapted to the HBO's series
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