“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
― Stanley Kubrick

Yuval Avitan Akirav

London-based filmmaker with over 9 years of experience in writing, directing, and editing fiction, documentary, and commercials.

B.A. Practical Filmmaking, MetFilm School London (2023–2025). Currently in post-production for a short chamber-tragedy titled "Queen Bathsheba".

Notable projects (with attached links):

  • Uneven Hearts (2025) - Writer, Director, Editor: an 'unromantic' comedy about a young man searching for his university crush before marrying.

  • The Set from Hell - Episode 3 (2025) - Director, Editor: a comedy-horror mini-series about an indie film crew's production disrupted by the lead's possession.

  • Back on Track (2024) - Writer, Director: a short-silent drama about a former runner retuning to form.

  • Summer Fever (2019) - Writer, Director, Editor: a short surrealist-revenge-comedy and sequel to "The Long Night".

  • The Long Night (2018) - Writer, Director, Editor: A darkly comic coming-of-age thriller about an adolescent caught between two rival friend groups and forced to choose where his loyalty truly lies. (screened at the Jaffa Cinema).

  • Uri (2018) - Co-Writer, Editor: a short drama-thriller about a young man who flees home the night before conscripting into a combat unit. (3rd place winner of the 2018 JFF for Young Creators).

  • The Kitchen Odyssey (2017) - Writer, Director, Editor: a short horror-comedy about a timid kid who breaks his curfew for the first time but discovers the his mother doesn't forgive disobedience.

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