Alan Rosenthal

Alan Rosenthal is a film director, and professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He was born in England, and educated at Oxford University (Law) and Stanford University (Communications). He has taught film at Stanford University, and at the national film schools of Britain, Australia, Mexico and Hong Kong. He is also a renowned author on documentary, with several books published. With a long career in documentary filmmaking he has directed more than fifty films for ZDF, ARTE, the BBC, PBS and other broadcasters. His recent docudrama, The First Fagin, about the transportation of convicts to Australia in the nineteenth century, was invited for special feature presentation at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2013. His film awards include a Christopher and a Peabody Journalism gold medal. The American Universities Film Association awarded him the George Stoney prize for documentary distinction.