Joseph Cedar is an Israeli screenwriter and film director whose films have won numerous international awards and have been nominated for two American Academy awards.
His first feature film, “Time of Favor” (2001), won 6 Israeli academy awards including Best Picture. Cedar’s third film, “Beaufort" (2008), a drama/action movie about an IDF unit in the Beaufort fortress in southern Lebanon at the end of Israel's occupation in 2000, received the Silver Bear award for Best Director in the Berlin International Film Festival and received a nomination for 2008 Best Foreign Language Film at the American Academy Awards, the Oscars. In 2011, Cedar's film “Footnote” (2011) won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and also received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards. Footnote revolves around a power struggle between a father and son who teach in the Talmud department of the Hebrew University.
Cedar also wrote and directed the American film “Norman” (2017) starring Richard Gere, and the HBO miniseries “Our Boys” (2019).

Lawrence Bender has a career that spans three decades of producing highly successful films with a worldwide box office total of over a billion dollars. His films to date, including such hits as “Pulp Fiction”, “Inglorious Bastards”, and “Good Will Hunting”, have been honored with 37 Academy Award nominations, including four for Best Picture, and have won 9. His film “An Inconvenient Truth”, which raised unprecedented awareness about climate change, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2020, Bender produced two short films: the Peabody winning animated short film, “Cops and Robbers” and the Academy Award winning short film “Two Distant Strangers”.
Other films include “The Harder They Fall” starring Idris Elba and Regina King (2021), Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” (2016), Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” (2016), Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill”: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2004) “The Mexican” (2001) starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, “Anna and the King” (1999) starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fat, “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996), and “Reservoir Dogs” (1992).
Bender has a long list of Television credits which includes the A&E docu series “The Chicano Squad”, the CW series “Roswell New Mexico”, the Netflix limited series “Seven Seconds” (2019) starring Regina King who won the Emmy for best actress, and the Starz limited series “Flesh and Bone” (2015).