Asaf Epstein

Asaf Epstein is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and producer known for the short film Schnitzel.

born 1978The short film SchnitzelProducing Mother's FadingCoproducing The Other War

Born: 1 August 1978, Israel
Occupation: film director, film producer, screenwriter
Education: Tel Aviv University, J. J. Pearce High School

Asaf Epstein was born in 1978 in Israel

Asaf Epstein was born in Israel on August 1, 1978, to Lea and Hanan Epstein. As a boy he moved with his family to Fort Worth, Texas, where he went to a private Jewish school. The family later returned to Modiin, where he attended junior high school.

In 1995 the family moved again to the United States and settled in Dallas. He studied at J. J. Pearce High School in Richardson. In his early twenties he returned to Israel alone to join the IDF, and later studied film at Tel Aviv University.

After his studies he made promotional clips for companies. In 2008 he took part in producing two Israeli films, The Other War and the documentary Jaffawiye. In 2010 he produced the short drama Mother's Fading.

In 2011 he began work on Schnitzel, a short film he wrote, produced and directed, about a teenage boy who meets an alien in the form of a schnitzel. He released it in July 2014. In 2015 it won prizes at festivals in South Carolina, Manhattan and Madrid, among others.