Joshua Faudem

Joshua Faudem is an award-winning, Israeli-American filmmaker drawn to the complex and compelling subject matter. He also works as a news producer, whose segments have been seen around the world, including on TV Asahi (Japan) and Record TV (Brazil). In April 2003, Joshua was making a film about an iconic blues bar in Tel Aviv when it was blown up by terrorists. The movie he created, "Blues by the Beach," gained international acclaim, winning the Conflict and Resolution Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival and the Pierre Salinger Award for Best Documentary Film at the Avignon Film Festival. Joshua proceeded to co-write a graphic novel based on the film, "Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv," which was published by Macmillan and optioned by Metalworks Pictures. It is now being made into a big-budget narrative feature, to be directed by Todd Komarnicki (Sully, Elf). Joshua also wrote and directed "Ruskii Battalion," which tells the story of immigrants from the former Soviet Union with Red Army experience who form their own brigade after being denied entry into the Israel Defense Forces. It premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival and was bought by Yes Doko, an Israeli television station. Before that, Joshua directed "A Will to Dance," a love story between a Holocaust survivor and a German soldier. As a film producer, his credits include "Rocking in the Red Zone," "Jesus Freaks," and "The Last Sermon." Joshua studied documentary film at the Film & Television Academy Academy (FAMU) in Prague, Czech.