Eldar Rapaport

Eldar Rapaport (Hebrew: אלדר רפפורט) is an American-Israeli film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for his 2011 feature film August.^[1]

Originally from Tel Aviv,^[2] he moved to the United States in 1991 to attend Emerson College^[2] and the New York University Film School. He won the Iris Prize in 2009 for his third short film Steam.^[3]

He is currently based in New York, where he works as Chief Creative Officer for the digital media production firm Screenz.^[4] He has also served on the jury for the Iris Prize several times since his own award win.

Films

• Tremor (2003)
• Postmortem (2005)
• Steam (2009)
• August (2011)
• Little Man (2012)
• The Last Survivor^[5] (2018)