Shlomi Eldar

Shlomi Eldar is a documentary film director and journalist who covered for the past two decades the Palestinian Authority , especially the Gaza Strip , for Israel's T.V Channels 1 and 10. In 2007, he was awarded the "Sokolov Prize", Israel's most important media award, for his work. Eldar has published two books: "Eyeless in Gaza" (2005) and "getting to Know Hamas" (2012) . In 2010 Eldar directed the documentary feature film "Precious Life", a struggle of a Palestinian mother and an Israeli pediatrician to treat a four-month-old Palestinian baby with a genetic disease. "Precious Life" wins Ophir Award (the Israeli Oscar for best documentary 2010) official selection of the 2010 Toronto international film festival and the 2010 Telluride film festival, shortlisted to the Oscar Academy Award (2011) and broadcast on HBO. In 2017 his new documentary "Foreign Land" awarded the best documentary feature film in Haifa film Festival (October 2017)