Short bio
Itai Raziel is an Israeli documentary cinematographer and director with more than 25 years of experience. His films include Mr. Gaga, Censored Voices (HBO), Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (Teddy Award, Berlinale) and The Governor (Best Documentary, Jerusalem Film Festival 2024). He won Best Cinematography at DocAviv 2022 for I Am Not.
Long bio
Itai Raziel is an Israeli documentary cinematographer and director. A graduate of the Film and Television School at Tel Aviv University, he trained in 35mm cinematography at the Louis Lumière school in Paris and has worked in Israeli film and television for more than 25 years.
He has shot feature documentaries for many of Israel's leading documentary directors, including Tomer and Barak Heymann's Paper Dolls (2006), Mr. Gaga (2015) and Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (2016, Teddy Award, Berlinale), Mor Loushy's Censored Voices (2015, with Avner Shahaf), and The Governor (2024, with Tal Ninyo; Best Documentary, Jerusalem Film Festival). For Paper Dolls he received the Golden Lens Award and the Documentary Creators Forum award for best cinematography, and he won Best Cinematography at DocAviv 2022 for Tomer Heymann's I Am Not. He was nominated for an Ophir Award for the series Hanoch Levin: A Life We've Never Seen Before.
As a director he made the short fiction film Mekudeshet (Wedlock), which screened at festivals including ShortShorts in Tokyo, and The Never Ending Battle (2018), a documentary about post-trauma.
Awards
- Best Cinematography — DocAviv 2022, I Am Not
- Video Work Award — "Local Testimony" 2020
- Best Cinematography nomination — Ophir Award 2017, Hanoch Levin: A Life We've Never Seen Before
- Golden Lens Award — Film & Television Workers Union 2006, Paper Dolls
- Best Cinematography — Documentary Creators Forum 2006, Paper Dolls