Barak Heymann

Barak Heymann (Hebrew: ברק הימן) is an Israeli film director and producer.

[1] Together with his brother Tomer he created the TV series Bridge Over the Wadi (2005), which won the Best Series Award at the Israeli Documentary Competition and was adapted to a one-hour film that was co-produced with the American ITVS company and won many awards around the world.

The film Lady Kul el-Arab (by Palestinian director Ibtisam Mara'ana) won the special jury award in IDFA 2008 and one year later one more documentary he produced, Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared(By Dorit Zimbalist) was participating in the prestigious competition in IDFA.

Barak's latest productions are the 8-part TV series "The Way Home" (2009 - directed by Tomer Heymann) which won the first prize in the Int'l film festival in Jerusalem and the award-winning film I Shot My Love (2010 - directed by Tomer Heymann), which premiered in Berlinale and won many different prizes including the best mid-length documentary in HOTDOCS, the Audience award in Taiwan and more.

Currently Barak is working on a new TV series dealing with couples after their divorce; he teaches cinematography in two Israeli schools and is involved in the production of several new projects.