IDO WEISMAN
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Ido Weisman is a Tel Aviv-based director and cinematographer.
Born in 1989 and raised in the northern Israeli village of Nofit, he holds a BFA from the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University.
He has directed several award-winning short films, including "Horah" (2018), "Pool" (2019), and "Uzzi" (2018), which was shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Awards.
His short documentary "Requiem for a Whale" (2022) won the prestigious IDA Award for Best Student Documentary and was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 2023 Israeli Academy Awards.
The film also received the top prize at the Israeli Documentary Forum Awards and won both Second Prize and the Cinematography Award at the 2022 Docaviv Film Festival.
In August 2023, it was acquired for distribution by The New Yorker.
In May 2025, Weisman directed the television series "You Have to Read This", which premiered on Kan 11.
His debut feature-length documentary, "Sun Bay" (2025), won the First Feature Award at both the Israeli Documentary Forum Awards and the 2025 Docaviv Film Festival, and received an Honorable Mention at the South Film Festival.
The film premiered on Kan 11 at the beginning of 2026, and it’s available to watch on Kan Box and on the Kan 11 YouTube channel.
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Graduate of the following courses:
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"Avid Master" - an advanced video editing course
at the "Jump Cut" School of Editing, Tel-Aviv. -
Acting and actor's directing course
at the "Chubbuck" method school Tel-Aviv. -
Stills Photography Course at the "Focus" College in Haifa.
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DSLR video course at the "Galitz" photography
school in Ramat Gan.
Whether I'm directing, writing, filming, or editing, I'm first and foremost, an audience for the film I'm working on.
Writen about me
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Haaretz: "Sun Bay: Eilat’s hotels serve as a particularly symbolic backdrop to the characters’ lonely lives."
(Sun Bay) Published on January 11, 2026
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Maariv: ‘It was like a separate planet’: Director Ido Weisman on creating his new film Sun Bay."
(Sun Bay) Published on January 5, 2026
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Israel Hayom: "We discovered a refuge city for people pushed out of various frameworks. Ido Weisman on his film Sun Bay."
(Sun Bay) Published on December 30, 2025
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Ynet: "Sun Bay won the First Feature Award at the Israeli Documentary Forum Awards 2025."
(Sun Bay) Published on December 26, 2025
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Ynet: "Sun Bay won the First Feature Award at Docaviv 2025"
(Sun Bay) Published on May 28, 2025
(Requiem for a Whale) Published on Dec 19, 2022