Renen Schorr

Renen Schorr was born in 1952 in Jerusalem

Schorr was born on 6 July 1952 in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood of Jerusalem. His father was the physician Professor Shmuel Schorr, and his mother Leah Heller was a teacher. As a boy he moved with his family to Tel Aviv, acted in stage musicals and made his first short film in 1968.

He served in the Central Command troupe and later as a military reporter for Bamahane and Galei Tzahal. His reports on the Golan Heights battles of the Yom Kippur War gave the name Emek HaBacha to a key battle. He also wrote film criticism, including essays on the work of Uri Zohar.

After the army he studied film and television at Tel Aviv University and made two short films. In 1979 he trained in the United States as an observer on the sets of John Cassavetes and Paul Mazursky.

In 1979 he co-founded the Israel Film Fund, and in 1992 he devised the New Fund for Film and Television. He co-directed the Beit Zvi school from 1982 to 1985, founded the Sam Spiegel school in 1989 and led it until his death. He served as president of CILECT/GEECT from 2000 and led the creation of the Jerusalem Film and Television Fund in 2008.

In 2016 France made him a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2024 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Ministry of Culture and Sport. He died on 26 February 2025.