Orit Zamir

Orit Zamir was born in 1972 in Tel Aviv

Orit Zamir was born in Tel Aviv in 1972 and grew up there. As a child she lived for several years in the United States with her family. Back in Israel, she finished high school in Tel Aviv in a program of film, photography and literature.

After her army service she lived in New York and studied creative writing. In Israel she studied at Camera Obscura and English literature at Tel Aviv University. She studied film at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem and graduated with honors in 2001.

She first worked as a first assistant director on films and series such as Broken Wings and In Treatment. In 2008 she founded Gum Films with her partner Yoav Roeh. The company produced films including Asia, The Testament and Manpower, and series such as The Missing File.

In 2016 she wrote and directed the short film Babysitter, which won a prize at the Haifa International Film Festival. She co-created and wrote the police drama The Truth with Dafna Levine. She also taught at Sam Spiegel and headed its Entrepreneurial Producing Department.

In January 2020 she was appointed director of the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Her prose has appeared in literary magazines. In 2025 she published a novella.