Omer Ben-Shachar
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Omer Ben-Shachar is an award-winning director and writer born and raised in Tel-Aviv, Israel. In 2019, he won a Student Academy Award for his film Tree #3. The short also received top prizes at UrbanWorld, HollyShorts, Palm Springs, Comic-Con, and was nominated for a Student Emmy, among others. Omer's short films have screened at over 60 film festivals around the world including the Hamptons International Film Festival and the Bentonville Film Festival. Omer is a graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory, and received the Richard P. Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award for Directing. Omer was a participant of the 2020 Warner Bros. TV Directors' Workshop, the 2019-20 ViacomCBS's ViewFinder Emerging Directors Program and the BAFTA LA Newcomers Program. Beyond his narrative work, Omer has directed music videos for artists such as Mergui, Claudio Olachea, and Kama Vardi which were featured on Rolling Stones, Billboard, Variety, Nowness, Vimeo Staff Pick and nominated for a Cannes Lions Young Directors Award. In 2020, he was named to Forbes Israel's 30 Under 30 list.