Noam Demsky

Noam Demsky was born in 1966 in Jerusalem

Noam Demsky was born in 1966 in Jerusalem, the third of 7 children in a family that moved to Israel from the United States in 1965. He grew up in Jerusalem and later moved with his parents to Efrat in Gush Etzion. His father, Aharon Demsky, is a professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University.

He finished the Netiv Meir yeshiva high school in Jerusalem and served in the IDF in the Maglan unit. In 1992 he graduated with the first class of the Ma'ale film school. He also holds a bachelor's degree in education from Herzog College.

He worked as a news and documentary cameraman before directing his own films. In 1998 he made a film about a Breslov pilgrimage to Uman, and in 2001 his film Green Sidelocks, about the Haredi Nahal, won a prize at a festival in Trento, Italy. He also made the TV series The Yeshiva and several films with Mordi Kershner.

He won the Hammer Prize in 2010 and the Education Minister's prize for Jewish culture in film in 2019. He taught film for over a decade, including at Ma'ale. With Ido Bahat he made The Orphans' Group in 2015 and Malachi, which won the documentary award at the 2025 Jerusalem Film Festival.