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Alma Har'el

  • Director
  • Producer
  • Cinematographer
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Alma Har'el at an event for 35th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2020)
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Alma Har'el is an award-winning director who brought to life visionary work in documentary, music videos, TV commercials and scripted narrative. She is also the first woman in DGA Awards history to be nominated for both commercial directing (2018) and narrative directing (2020).

Her most recent film, Honey Boy, written by, and starring, Shia LaBeouf, made her the first woman to win the DGA Award for First-Time Feature Film. The film was distributed by Amazon Studios.

In 2016, Har'el founded her non-profit, Free The Bid, which transformed the global hiring practices of female directors in advertising, and then grew beyond measurable success into FREE THE WORK. FTW advocates for, and showcases, over 2,000 underrepresented filmmakers in 21 countries worldwide.

Har'el's passion for encouraging equality across entertainment, along with her directing work, landed her in Fast Company's "Most Creative People of 2018", Adweek's "Disruptors of 2018" and on Indiewire's list of leading "Women Who Made the World of Filmmaking a Better Place in 2018."
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  • Awards
    • 9 wins & 29 nominations

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Shia LaBeouf and Alma Har'el at an event for Honey Boy (2019)
Alma Har'el at an event for Honey Boy (2019)
Shia LaBeouf and Alma Har'el at an event for Honey Boy (2019)
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Alma Har'el
Jacqueline Bisset and Alma Har'el
Alma Har'el at the DGA awards
Alma Har'el at an event for Honey Boy (2019)
Catherine Hardwicke and Alma Har'el at an event for Honey Boy (2019)
Alma Har'el and Jean-Baptiste Lacroix
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Melina Matsoukas and Alma Har'el

Known for

Noah Jupe in Honey Boy (2019)
Honey Boy
7.2
  • Director
  • 2019
Bombay Beach (2011)
Bombay Beach
7.0
  • Director
  • 2011
LoveTrue (2016)
LoveTrue
6.6
  • Director
  • 2016
Mockingbird
  • Director

    Credits

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    Director

    • Lady in the Lake
      • Director
      • Post-production
      • TV Mini Series
    • Byron Bowers in Byron Bowers - Spiritual N**ga (2022)
      Byron Bowers - Spiritual N**ga
      • Director
      • TV Special
      • 2022
    • Dave Burd in Dave (2020)
      Dave
      • Director
      • TV Series
      • 2021
    • Bob Dylan in Shadow Kingdom (2021)
      Shadow Kingdom
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Noah Jupe in Honey Boy (2019)
      Honey Boy
      • Director
      • 2019
    • 11/8/16 (2017)
      11/8/16
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Jellywolf (2017)
      Jellywolf
      • Director
      • Short
      • 2017
    • LoveTrue (2016)
      LoveTrue
      • Director
      • 2016
    • Sigur Rós: Fjögur píanó (2012)
      Sigur Rós: Fjögur píanó
      • Director
      • Music Video
      • 2012
    • Bombay Beach (2011)
      Bombay Beach
      • Director
      • 2011
    • Jack Peñate: Tonight's Today (2009)
      Jack Peñate: Tonight's Today
      • Director
      • Music Video
      • 2009
    • Paul L. Smith in Paul Smith: The Reddest Herring (2008)
      Paul Smith: The Reddest Herring
      • Director
      • Video
      • 2008
    • Beirut: Elephant Gun (2007)
      Beirut: Elephant Gun
      • Director
      • Short
      • 2007

    Producer

    • Women of the Year
      • executive producer
      • Pre-production
      • TV Series
    • Lady in the Lake
      • executive producer
      • Post-production
      • TV Mini Series
    • Byron Bowers in Byron Bowers - Spiritual N**ga (2022)
      Byron Bowers - Spiritual N**ga
      • executive producer
      • TV Special
      • 2022
    • You Resemble Me (2021)
      You Resemble Me
      • executive producer
      • 2021
    • Bob Dylan in Shadow Kingdom (2021)
      Shadow Kingdom
      • producer
      • 2021
    • Imogen (2020)
      Imogen
      • producer
      • Short
      • 2020
    • Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy (2020)
      Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
      • producer
      • 2020
    • Noah Jupe in Honey Boy (2019)
      Honey Boy
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Oh Bird (2018)
      Oh Bird
      • producer
      • Short
      • 2018
    • Death in the Terminal (2016)
      Death in the Terminal
      • producer
      • 2016
    • LoveTrue (2016)
      LoveTrue
      • producer
      • 2016
    • Bombay Beach (2011)
      Bombay Beach
      • producer
      • 2011
    • Josh Lucas, Betty Gilpin, and Vanessa Kai in Death in Love (2008)
      Death in Love
      • co-producer
      • 2008

    Cinematographer

    • 11/8/16 (2017)
      11/8/16
      • Cinematographer
      • 2017
    • Offer Nissim: Completely Yourself
      • Cinematographer (photo shoots from the documentary film "LoveTrue")
      • Music Video
      • 2017
    • LoveTrue (2016)
      LoveTrue
      • Cinematographer
      • 2016
    • Bombay Beach (2011)
      Bombay Beach
      • Cinematographer
      • 2011
    • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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    Spotlighting Sundance 2019's Women Directors

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    • Born
      • 1976
      • Israel
    • Spouse
      • Boaz Yakin2004 - 2015 (divorced)
    • Publicity listings
      • 1 Article

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