The Childeater was a shortlisted Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 62nd Academy Awards,[1] and Rupert's Land was a Genie Award nominee for Best Picture at the 19th Genie Awards, with Tammuz also nominated for Best Director.
[2] The son of Israeli writer Benjamin Tammuz, he grew up in England where his father was a cultural attaché at the Israeli embassy and a writer in residence at Oxford University.
He met and married Lib Stephen, a Canadian, when they were both studying at England's National Film and Television School; Stephen was the screenwriter for both The Childeater and Tammuz's film Cordoba.
[1] Tammuz subsequently directed a 1997 film adaptation of his father's novel Minotaur before making Rupert's Land.
[3] Tammuz and Stephen currently reside in Vancouver, British Columbia, where they are partners in a production firm; Tammuz is also a film instructor at Langara College and Stephen also works as an illustrator.