Yair Raveh

Biography

Yair Raveh is better known as one of Israel's leading film critics and journalists. Apart from his widely read print column, since 2006 he also runs Israel's most popular and influential film-blog, Cinemascope. Besides his work as critic and film-school lecturer, Raveh has also written scripts to diverse projects - film-noir (Death of a Disco Dancer, 1998), comedy skits (Bruno, 1993) and documentaries. In many of his projects Raveh collaborated with Israeli comedic superstar, Shlomo Bar-Aba, which recently become internationally renowned as the elderly and grumpy professor in Footnote.

Raveh is the co-creator and co-writer of Kathmandu, the Israeli TV drama series of 2012, that launched Gal...