Eldar Rapaport
New York, New York, United States
Into the wild.. But the urban variety.
Born in Tel Aviv, Eldar moved to the US in 1991 to attend Emerson College in Boston, majoring in Communication Studies and later on, Film School at NYU. His films include Tremor (2002), Postmortem (2005), Steam (2009), August (2010) and Little Man (2011). An Iris Prize Award winner (Steam) and a Frameline Completion Fund winner (August), Eldar strives to make movies that provoke discussion. Currently based in NYC, he cites the likes of Ozon, Lifshitz, Kar Wai as his influences.