Biography

Award-winning filmmaker Boaz Dvir tells the stories of ordinary people who transform into trailblazers. They include a teacher who emerges as a disruptive innovator (Class of Her Own); a World War II flight engineer who leads a secret operation to prevent a second Holocaust (A Wing and a Prayer); an uneducated truck driver who becomes a highly effective child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); and a French business consultant who sets out to kill his father’s Nazi executioner (To Kill a Nazi). His films have been distributed by PBS, The New York Times, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other major platforms. They’ve screened in prestigious venues around the world, including Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and numerous US colleges such as the University of Virginia, Syracuse, Penn and NYU. They’ve received coverage by such media as the Huffington Post, The Guardian, Forbes, Haaretz, MSNBC, the New York Post, the Grio and The Miami Herald.
- IMDb mini biography by: Boaz Dvir