Yoav Shamir (Hebrew: יואב שמיר), is an Israeli documentary filmmaker most noted for the films Checkpoint and Defamation. Yoav Shamir was born in Tel Aviv in 1970. A ninth-generation Israeli from Tel Aviv, he is the son of two elementary school teachers. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BA in History and philosophy.

Based in Tel-Aviv, Yoav Shamir is an accomplished award-winning documentary director, producer and cinematographer in film and television. His work reflects his passion to probe and uncover difficult and polarizing subject matter through an observational lens.

Based in Tel-Aviv, Yoav Shamir is an accomplished award-winning documentary director, producer and cinematographer in film and television. His work reflects his passion to probe and uncover difficult and polarizing subject matter through an observational lens, delivering penetrating and ethically challenging interviews with an accessible charm ...

Yoav Shamir. Director: Checkpoint. Yoav Shamir was born in November 1970 in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a writer and director, known for Checkpoint (2003), Defamation (2009) and The Prophet and the Space Aliens (2020).

Based in Tel-Aviv, Yoav Shamir is an accomplished award-winning documentary director, producer and cinematographer in film and television. His work reflects his passion to probe and uncover...

Based in Tel-Aviv, Yoav Shamir is an accomplished award-winning documentary film and television director, producer and cinematographer. His work reflects his passion…

Upon receiving a mysterious invitation, award-winning director Yoav Shamir recruits one of the world’s leading historians of religion, Prof. Daniel Boyarin, as his mentor and sets off on a thought-provoking, humorous quest that takes Shamir from Rael’s beautiful home in Okinawa to his sleepy hometown in France; from the Raelians ...

Yoav Shamir is an Israeli filmmaker whose name has become synonymous with unflinching documentaries that delve into the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is a relentless chronicler of human stories amidst the chaos of war, fear, and propaganda, refusing to shy away from the uncomfortable truths that lie beneath the surface.

The first time Israeli Jewish director Yoav Shamir was called an anti-Semite was by an American Jewish reviewer of his film Checkpoint (SFJFF 2004), who deemed Shamir too critical of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians. “Until then,” says Shamir, “I had never considered the central role that anti-Semitism plays in our lives.