Guy Nattiv (Hebrew: גיא נתיב; born May 24, 1973) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and producer who lives and works in the United States.
Together they directed the short film Strangers, starring Guy Loell and Sami Samir, about a Jew and an Arab who meet on a train and encounter a group of Neo Nazi skinheads.
[12] In 2010, Nattiv wrote and directed his second feature Mabul aka The Flood which was nominated for 4 Israeli Ophir Awards.
The film stars Ronit Alkabetz, Yoav Rotman, Tzahi Grad and Michael Moshonov, who also won the Ophir Award for Best Supporting Actor.
[14][15][16] His third feature film Magic Men (In collaboration with Erez Tadmor) is a journey of a father and son in northern Greece, following a Greek magician who has disappeared.
Erez and Guy co-directed the film, produced by Shemi Sheinfeld and Amitan Menelson with the investment of the Rabinowitz Foundation and Channel 10.
Skin was co-produced with Nattiv's wife and partner Jaime Ray Newman and stars Danielle McDonald, as well as Lonnie Chavis, Jonathan Tucker, Ashley Thomas and Jackson Robert Scott.
It stars Vera Farmiga, Jamie Bell, Danielle Macdonald, Bill Camp, Louisa Krause, Mike Colter and Mary Stuart Masterson.
The film centers on the character Bryon Widner, a tattoo-covered skinhead, who decides to turn his back on the hate with which he was raised, going through a tremendously painful process to have every bit of offensive ink removed from his skin.
[24] The feature is based on the life of Bryon Widner a Neo-Nazi skinhead who retired from the violent activity and later even became an FBI informant and was one of the prominent spokesmen against the hate groups.
The plot of Golda focuses on the decisions made by Meir during the Yom Kippur War, when the combined forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan launched a surprise attack on Israel in 1973.
[31][32][33] As in January 2020, Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman together with Keshet Studios have been known developing A Stuntwoman, a limited series based on the book of the same name by Julie Ann Johnson and Deadline's David Robb.
Johnson battled Hollywood's 'glass ceiling'; she took on the stunt community's 'cocaine cowboys' and she fought against one of the most formidable film and television personalities of her time, Aaron Spelling.
It had its world premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2023, receiving positive reviews from the critics and audience.
[42] The film follows Iranian female judoka Leila (Arienne Mandi) and her coach Maryam (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), who travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal.
With her own and her family’s freedom at stake, Leila faces a difficult choice: feign injury and comply with the Iranian regime as Maryam implores her to do, or defy them both and fight on, for the gold.
[43] With Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi as co-directors, the project marks the first feature film to be co-directed by an Iranian and an Israeli filmmaker.
It is produced by Adi Ezroni and Mandy Tagger Brockey, alongside Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman from New Native Pictures.