RAVIT MARKUS
Producer
Director
Ravit Markus’s previous documentary features include the critically-acclaimed Yiddish Theater: A Love Story which she wrote and produced. It became a cultural phenomenon when it commercially played in theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Tel Aviv for months garnering raving reviews in the NY Times, LA Times, and the NY Magazine, to name a few, and was voted one of the top 10 documentaries of 2007 in About.com. Markus co-produced Jewish Film Festivals’ darling Rock in the Red Zone by Laura Bialis, and produced the Channel 4 UK documentary Porn Shutdown which aired worldwide including on the Sundance Channel in the US and received excellent reviews in The Guardian and the London Time Out. Markus is a graduate of the Film and TV Department at Tel Aviv University. In her mandatory army service in Israel she served in the video unit of the Education Corps.