Renen Schorr(1952-2025)

Producer
Director
Writer

Renen Schorr, the prominent Israeli filmmaker, is a director and producer of "Late Summer Blues" (1987), winner of the Israeli Ophir Award for Best Picture.

He is the founding director of Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem (1989-2020).

Schorr established the The Israeli Film Fund (1979), The New Fund for Cinema and TV (1992) and, amongst others, the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (2011-2019).

Following his retirement, Schorr directed and produced the epic full length documentary film - "Wake Up, Grandson" (2024).

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Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations total

Known for

Late Summer Blues

7.6

Producer

1987

The Loners

7.1

Director

2009

Voice Over

6.8

Producer

2018

Rabbi Heller Blues

Producer

2021

Credits

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Producer

HaMeorer
6.4
- producer
- 2024
Rabbi Heller Blues
- producer
- 2021
More Than I Deserve
7.0
- executive producer
- 2021
The Voice of Ahmad
- executive producer
- 2019
Voice Over
6.8
- producer
- 2018
Footsteps in Jerusalem
4.5
- producer
- 2013
Kosnice
6.8
- executive producer
- 2012
The Acting Teacher
- producer
- 2010
Black to the Promised Land
7.4
- producer
- 1992
Late Summer Blues
7.6
- producer
- 1987
Wedding in Jerusalem
Short
- producer
- 1985
Hapnimiyah
5.6
- executive producer
- 1983
Fellow Travellers
5.7
- producer
- 1983
Lo L'Shidur
2.9
- producer
- 1981

Director

Writer

Personal details

Born
- July 6, 1952
- Jerusalem, Israel
Died
- February 26, 2025

Did you know

Trivia
In 1989, he founded Israel's first independent, national school for film and television, the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School - Jerusalem, and served as its director from that time, until his death.