Talent Guide
Yoav Potash
- Discipline:Director, Producer, Writer
- Program Year:Producing Lab 2013
Bio
Yoav Potash is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. His documentary Crime After Crime premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and had a national primetime broadcast on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. The film received 25 major awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, The National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression Award, and The Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism. Potash obtained unprecedented access to California prisons to make the film, a process he wrote about for The Wall Street Journal. His other recent writing, producing, and directing credits include a cinematic book trailer for Joshua Safran’s critically-acclaimed memoir Free Spirit, and the documentary Food Stamped, winner of the Jury Prize at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival and an official selection of Whole Foods Market’s online film festival, Do Something Reel. Potash is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he earned the university’s top prize in creative writing. A draft of his screenplay for Moment of Truth has been selected as one of 27 semifinalists in the drama category of the 2013 Austin Film Festival’s Screenplay Competition, which had over 3,000 submissions.