Ran Tal

Ran Tal is an Israeli film director known for documentary films such as Children of the Sun and Garden of Eden.

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Occupation: film director, screenwriter, film producer, director
Education: Steve Tisch School of Film and Television

Ran Tal was born in 1963 in Beit HaShita

Ran Tal was born in 1963 in Kibbutz Beit HaShita in the Jezreel Valley. His parents, Hana and Dror Tal, were both second generation to kibbutz founders.

He finished his studies in the film and television department of Tel Aviv University in 1994.

In 1996 he co-directed a short drama with Etgar Keret, which won an Israeli Academy award for television drama. He then turned mainly to documentaries, including films on the Abu Kabir forensic institute, the first generation of kibbutz children, the Sakhne park and the Israel Museum. In 2022 he made a film about photographer Micha Bar-Am, later turned into an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Tal is a professor at the Tel Aviv University film school and heads its MFA program in documentary film. He also founded and edits, with Anat Even, the documentary film criticism magazine Takriv.