Sharon Maymon(I)

Sharon Maymon co-wrote Skin, the Oscar winner for best live action short film with Guy Nattiv . Skin was directed by Guy Nattiv and produced by Jaime Ray Newman, Original idea by Sharon Maymon. Sharon was born in Ramla (Israel) in 1973 and graduated from the Camera Obscura College of Arts in Tel Aviv. In 2006 he teamed up with Tal Granit (1969, Tel Aviv), a graduate of Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School, to write and direct 'Mortgage', winner of the Best Drama Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival. In 2009 he co-directed his first feature, 'A matter of size', with Erez Tadmor. The film premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival and won the audience award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Sharon and Tal partnered again on two shorts, 'To kill a bumblebee' in 2009 and 'Summer vacation' in 2012 which was selected to official selection of Sundance Film Festival. In 2010, the duo won the Best Pitch Award at the Berlinale for the script of 'MY sweet euthanasia', on which their acclaimed film 'The farewell party' is based. This film has since then been selected as part of the 2014 editions of Venice International Film Festival's Venice Days and Toronto International Film Festival. The Farewell party won the audience award at the Venice Film Festival. In 2018 the duo wrote and directed Flawless.