From the Press & Festivals
Jury member at Shore Scripts
I was selected to be part of a very selective and exclusive panel of judges at Shore Scripts Film Fund 2021-2025.
Full list of judges HERE
Invisible Countdown at Hamburg International Short Film Festival
I'm honored to announce that Invisible Countdown has been selected to compete for Best German Short at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
The New Jews at Lovers Film Festival
I'm proud to announce The New Jews has been selected to compete for Best Documentary at Lovers Film Festival (Turin LGBTQ+)
SCREEN DAILY: The New Jews & Visionär
Screen Magazine has published an article: German sales company Visionär Films launches with non-Zionist Israeli Jews documentary ‘The New Jews’
World Premiere: The New Jews at IFFR
I'm thrilled to announce that The New Jews will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025
World Premiere: Invisible Countdown at INTERFILM Berlin
The world premiere of Invisible Countdown will take place during Interfilm Berlin 2024.
Interfilm is an Oscar qualifying festival and I'm very excited to participate in its official competition.
I am also going to give a masterclass during which I will talk about my filmmaking journey, works and activist filmmaking.
European Film Academy Membership
As of 9th of May 2024 Amir Ovadia Steklov is officially a member of the European Film academy.
I'm very happy to be selected for the exclusive and competitive talent development program for the world’s top 200 emerging filmmakers. Organized by the Berlin International Film Festival.
Bi The Way - Special Jury Mention
KASHISH Mumbai gave Bi The Way a Special Jury Mention with those words:
"For a film that tickles us with its disarmingly self-deprecating humour and gently holding the mirror to show that even those who swear by the seven colours are sometimes stuck in binaries of black and white; for its visualisation, stop motion animation, script, voice, music and direction that only an auteur can lend with such fluidity, the Documentary Jury would like to make a special jury mention to the German animated short Bi The Way, directed by Amir Ovadia Steklov."
OutReels Film Festival - CityBeat
The local online magazine of Cincinnati - CityBeat, covered the OutReels Film Festival and highlighted my animated short Bi The Way.
The Hollywood Times - Interview
During Outfest Film Festival 2022 in West Hollywood I had the pleasure to meet Valerie Milano, the editor of The Hollywood Times. She was kindly summaries our conversation to an article in her magazine with an additional interview with me about my animation Bi The Way.
Israeli news site wrote about my photography
Ynet, the biggest news website in Israel, interviewed me about my work as a photographer during the times of COVID-19 outbreak of 2020.
during that time I went to Taiwan and Hong Kong and documented the cities with my camera. I also made timelapse videos of Berlin, showing the change in the city at those difficult times.