Alon Bar

Alon Bar (Hebrew: אַלּוֹן בָּר; born April 2, 1966) is an Israeli-American filmmaker.

Alon Bar
אַלּוֹן בָּר
Born	(1966-04-02) April 2, 1966 (age 59) Kibbutz Reshafim, Israel
Education	Tel Aviv University (BA) American Film Institute (MFA)
Occupation(s)	Filmmaker screenwriter, producer, director, author
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Sigal Meyuhas ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	2

He wrote^[1] the feature film "Aaron Cohen's Debt,"^[2] which he later adapted to the award-winning American screenplay "Under Arrest".^[3]

He directed, wrote and produced the award-winning documentary film Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God, which was the first Israeli film ever to participate a film festival in an Arab country.^{[citation needed]}

He is a graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory with a Master Degree in screenwriting.^{[citation needed]} He holds a Bachelor Degree in film and television from Tel Aviv University.^{[citation needed]} He participated in SOURCES 2, the screenwriting laboratory of the European Union's Media II initiative and taught documentary filmmaking at UCLA extension.

In 1993, while still a student in Tel Aviv, he became the protégé of director David Perlov, a laureate of the Israel Prize.^{[citation needed]} Following their first project, "Tel Katzir 1993," he collaborated as a researcher, writer and assistant director on four of Perlov's films.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994, he produced "Video Dance Premiers 1994," a collection of videodance made for the Batsheva Dance Company.^{[citation needed]}

In the early 2000s, he collaborated on the un-produced screenplay "Whiteout" with Carl Gottlieb, and wrote the un-produced screenplay "Plastic Bridges," through improvisations with a group of actors including Enrico Colantoni and Amy Pietz.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2006, he is the president and co-owner with Nancy Sexton of 4881 LLC, a multifaceted platform, serving as a launch pad for creativity.^{[citation needed]} Amongst others, the collaboration between Bar and Sexton created the award-winning screenplay "Type O," and the screenplays to the romantic comedy "Bonus Day" and the animation feature "Ruby", both currently (2013) in pre-production.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, he co-authored with Nancy Sexton the book Write Your Film, a screenwriting manual exploring the two unique writing system and collaboration.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, he co-wrote with Nancy Sexton the PixL TV feature film "The Wedding Do Over", a romantic comedy starring Nicole Gale Anderson and Parker Young that originally aired on Valentine's Day, Feb. 3, 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Films in production

• Ruby (working title) (2013), Producer Lumiq Studios, Turin, Italy^[4]

Selected films

• The Wedding Do Over (2018) Director W.D. Hogan
• Aaron Cohen's Debt (1999) Director Amalia Margolin
• Video Dance Premiers 1994 (1994) for Batsheva Dance Company
• Tel Katzir 1993 (1993) Director David Perlov
• Exodus - A journey to the mountain of God (1992) Directors Eitan Bin-Noun & Alon Bar
• For The Sake of Appearance (1991) Director Eitan Bin-Noun

Awards

• 2013 Quarterfinalist at the ScreenCraft Comedy Script Contest, USA, for "Sweethearts"^[5]
• 2011 Silver Award^[6] at the California Film Awards, USA, for "Under Arrest" the American adaptation of "Aaron Cohen's Debt"
• 2010 Quarterfinalist at the Scriptapalooza screenwriting competition, USA, for "Type O"
• 1999 Rockie Award for Best Made-For-TV Movie^[7] at the Banff World Television Festival, Canada, for "Aaron Cohen's Debt"
• 1999 Best Foreign Language Film nominee at the SXSW Film Festival, Austin, Texas, USA, for "Aaron Cohen's Debt"^{[citation needed]}
• 1995 Best Documentary Award at the MedFilm Festival, Italy, for Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God^{[citation needed]}
• 1993 Grand Prix Coronne D'Or at the Casablanca international film festival, Morocco, for Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God^{[citation needed]}
• 1993 Best Production Award by the Israeli Film Institute, Israel, for Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God^{[citation needed]}
• 1992 Grand Jury Award at the Algarve International Film Festival, Portugal, "For the Sake of Appearance"^{[citation needed]}
• 1992 Silver Plaque Award at the Chicago International Film Festival, United States, "For the Sake of Appearance"^{[citation needed]}
• 1992 The President Award at the Mons International Film Festival, Belgium, "For the Sake of Appearance"^{[citation needed]}