Nadav Kurtz is a director whose work has screened at Sundance, True/False, Sheffield and been featured by The Criterion Channel, PBS’ POV, the New York Times Op-Docs and Sundance Doc Club. His debut short, Paraíso, about high-rise window washers in Chicago, won Best Documentary Short at Tribeca, AFI-Silverdocs and others, and was short-listed for an Academy Award. Kurtz was named a 2020 New Face of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine and is a CIFF Points North Fellow. His upcoming feature, Untitled Sam Project, follows an immigrant family’s entanglement with filmmaking and the justice system. He previously spent over a decade as a film and commercial editor.