Dror Shaul

Dror Shaul is an Israeli film and commercial director and screenwriter, known for the film Sweet Mud.

born 1971The film Sweet MudThe short film Operation GrandmaThe film Atomic FalafelDirecting television commercials

Born: 28 June 1971, Kissufim
Occupation: film director, screenwriter, film producer, director

Dror Shaul was born in 1971 in Kissufim

Shaul was born and grew up on Kibbutz Kissufim in the northwestern Negev. His father, Ami Shaul, was a musician from Manhattan who joined the kibbutz when it was founded in 1951. His mother, Tzipora Yefet, was of Yemenite descent and grew up in the Hatikva neighborhood.

He served in the IDF in the Nahal 50th Battalion. After his discharge he returned to the kibbutz, then moved to Tel Aviv in the early 1990s.

In Tel Aviv he worked in film and television production, including as a production assistant on American films. He later became an assistant director and a line producer, among others on the series The Chamber Quintet. He has also directed hundreds of commercials.

His short film Operation Grandma came out in 1999, and his first feature, Sima Vaknin, followed. Sweet Mud, released in 2006, won 4 Ophir Awards and the World Cinema Grand Jury award at Sundance in 2007. Atomic Falafel followed in 2015, and in 2024 he made a film in memory of a Kissufim dairy farmer killed after the October 7 attack.

Shaul lives in Udim. He is married and has 2 children.