Yoav Potash
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Yoav Potash is an American writer and filmmaker whose works include the documentaries Crime After Crime and Food Stamped.
Movies
[edit]Potash produced and directed the film Crime After Crime, about the legal battle to free Deborah Peagler from a California prison. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win dozens of awards in the US and abroad. Potash produced the documentary over a five and a half year span, an experience he wrote about for The Wall Street Journal.[1] The film was broadcast on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, as part of the OWN Documentary Club. Awards the film has received include the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award,[2] The National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression Award,[3] The Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism,[4] and over 20 other top honors for documentaries in the US and abroad.[5] The film was a New York Times Critics' Pick.[6]
Potash's film Food Stamped documents the challenges of eating healthy on a food stamp budget. The film won the Jury Prize at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival and was nationally broadcast on Pivot, Participant Media's satellite and cable network.[7] "Food Stamped" was also an official selection of Whole Foods Market’s online film festival, Do Something Reel.[8] and was featured on CNN Money.[9]
In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Potash is currently working to adapt Crime After Crime into a dramatic major motion picture.[10] In 2013, Potash's screenplay for that project ranked in the top 1% of over 3,000 dramatic scripts entered in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition.[11] That same year, Potash was selected to participate in the Film Independent Producing Lab to further develop the dramatic adaptation project.[12]
In 2018, Potash was selected as a filmmaker-in-residence at the Jewish Film Institute in San Francisco to produce two documentary films on untold stories of the Holocaust, entitled The Remembered and Diary from the Ashes.[13]
Writing
[edit]Potash earned a 2018 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism from The American Jewish Press Association[14] for his personal essay entitled "How I learned all Israelis are not my father," published by J, The Jewish News of Northern California.[15] Potash has also written articles about his filmmaking experiences for publications including The Wall Street Journal [16] IndieWire,[17] Videomaker,[18] The Sundance Institute[19] and TheWrap.[20]
Personal life
[edit]Potash, Jewish, was raised by a Jewish, Israeli father and an American Jewish mother.[21]
References
[edit]- ^ Potash, Yoav (April 24, 2012). "The Impact of Documentary 'Crime After Crime' Beyond Prison Walls". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "US Journalism Awards | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights". Rfkcenter.org. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
- ^ "National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards". Nbrmp.org. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
- ^ "2012 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism". Hillman Foundation. April 14, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
- ^ "Awards « Crime After Crime".
- ^ Catsoulis, Jeanette (June 30, 2011). "Seeking a Path to Justice". The New York Times.
- ^ "FOOD STAMPED (2010)". Mill Valley Film Festival – Active Cinema case study. Mill Valley Film Festival. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
- ^ "Do Something Reel Film Festival". Dosomethingreel.com. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
- ^ "Healthy eating on $1 per meal: impossible? – Video – Personal Finance". Money.cnn.com. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
- ^ Miller, Daniel (January 21, 2012). "Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures Partnering With ro*co prods. to Adapt Docs Into Dramas – Hollywood Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ "2013 Screenplay & Teleplay Competition Semifinalists and Second-Rounders". Austin Film Festival. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
- ^ "11 FILMMAKERS and 9 PROJECTS SELECTED FOR THE FILM INDEPENDENT 2013 PRODUCING LAB". Film Independent. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
- ^ Paull, Laura (December 13, 2018). "Picks for Jewish Film Institute residencies strive to reach general audiences". J The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ^ "J. wins 11 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism". J The Jewish News of Northern California. June 26, 2019.
- ^ Potash, Yoav (April 5, 2018). "How I learned all Israelis are not my father". J The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ^ Potash, Yoav (April 24, 2012). "The Impact of Documentary 'Crime After Crime' Beyond Prison Walls". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ Smith, Nigel M. (June 30, 2011). "IN HIS OWN WORDS | Yoav Potash Shares a Scene from "Crime After Crime"".
- ^ Potash, Yoav. "UC Berkeley offers professional workshop for documentary filmmakers". Videomaker.
- ^ Potash, Yoav (October 20, 2015). "Using Film to Create Justice for Victims of Domestic Abuse".
- ^ Potash, Yoav (July 14, 2011). "Bringing to Light a Tale of Domestic Abuse That Led to Wrongful Incarceration for Murder". TheWrap. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
- ^ Reiss, Jon (June 15, 2011). "The Big Jewcy: Yoav Potash – Filmmaker Bent On Tikkun Olam". Jewcy.