Veronica Kedar

Veronica Kedar was born in 1984 in Tel Aviv

Veronica Kedar was born on 27 April 1984. She was born in Tzahala and grew up in the United States. She studied theater at Ironi Alef high school in Tel Aviv, and her original plays were staged at the Acco Festival in 2002.

In 2005 she wrote the musical Blonde to the Point of Pain, which won a prize at the Acco Festival. In 2004 she began studying film at Beit Berl College. Her graduation film Tail, from 2008, won an award at the International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv in 2010 and a screenwriting grant in Germany.

Her first feature, Joe & Belle, was made without fund support and opened in 2011. It was nominated for Best Picture at the Ophir Awards in 2012. That year she also received an award from the Ministry of Culture.

Her experimental film Endtime premiered at the Sitges Film Festival. Her feature Family premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2017 and was nominated for 3 Ophir Awards. Her fourth feature, Day Trippers, followed.