Alon Bar (; born April 2, 1966) is an Israeli-American filmmaker. He wrote the feature film "

Aaron Cohen's Debt Aaron Cohen's Debt () is a non-linear, fact based 1999 Israeli film starring Moshe Ivgy as Aaron Cohen, a father abruptly taken into custody at his birthday party by police for one child-support payment which he does not believe he owes. Despite hi ...

," which he later adapted to the award-winning American screenplay "Under Arrest". He directed, wrote and produced the award-winning

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

''Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God'', which was the first Israeli film ever to participate a film festival in an Arab country. He is a graduate of the

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Conservatory with a

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in screenwriting. He holds a

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in film and television from

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. He participated in SOURCES 2, the screenwriting laboratory of the

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's Media II initiative and taught documentary filmmaking at

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extension. In 1993, while still a student in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

, he became the protégé of director David Perlov, a laureate of the

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. Following their first project, "Tel Katzir 1993," he collaborated as a researcher, writer and assistant director on four of Perlov's films. In 1994, he produced "Video Dance Premiers 1994," a collection of videodance made for the

Batsheva Dance Company The Batsheva Dance Company (Hebrew: להקת בת שבע) is a renowned dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild in 1964. Its inception was inspired by Israel's growing inter ...

. In the early 2000s, he collaborated on the un-produced screenplay "Whiteout" with

Carl Gottlieb Carl Gottlieb (born March 18, 1938) is an American screenwriter, actor, comedian, and executive. He is best known for co-writing the screenplay for '' Jaws'' (1975) and its first two sequels, as well as directing the 1981 film '' Caveman''. Ear ...

, and wrote the un-produced screenplay "Plastic Bridges," through improvisations with a group of actors including

Enrico Colantoni Enrico Colantoni (born February 14, 1963) is a Canadian-American actor and director, best known for portraying Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom '' Just Shoot Me!'', Keith Mars on the television series ''Veronica Mars'', Louis Utz on the short-lived ...

and Amy Pietz. Since 2006, he is the president and co-owner with Nancy Sexton of 4881 LLC, a multifaceted platform, serving as a launch pad for creativity. Amongst others, the collaboration between Bar and Sexton created the award-winning screenplay "Type O," and the screenplays to the romantic comedy "Bonus Day" and the animation feature "Ruby", both currently (2013) in pre-production. In 2011, he co-authored with Nancy Sexton the book ''Write Your Film'', a screenwriting manual exploring the two unique writing system and collaboration. In 2018, he co-wrote with Nancy Sexton the PixL TV feature film "The Wedding Do Over", a romantic comedy starring

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and

Parker Young Parker Young is an American actor. He portrayed Ryan Shay on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC sitcom ''Suburgatory'', Randy Hill on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox sitcom ''Enlisted (TV series), Enlisted'' and Richard on the Bravo (U.S. T ...

that originally aired on Valentine's Day, Feb. 3, 2018.

Films in production

*''Ruby (working title)'' (2013), Producer Lumiq Studios,

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, Italy

Selected films

*''The Wedding Do Over'' (2018) Director W.D. Hogan *''

'' (1999) Director Amalia Margolin *''Video Dance Premiers 1994'' (1994) for

*''

Tel Katzir Tel Katzir () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the south of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1949 by a gar'in of ...

'' 1993 (1993) Director David Perlov *'' Exodus - A journey to the mountain of God'' (1992) Directors Eitan Bin-Noun & Alon Bar *''For The Sake of Appearance'' (1991) Director Eitan Bin-Noun

Awards

*2013 Quarterfinalist at the ScreenCraft Comedy Script Contest, USA, for "Sweethearts" *2011 Silver Award at the California Film Awards, USA, for "Under Arrest" the American adaptation of "

" *2010 Quarterfinalist at the Scriptapalooza screenwriting competition, USA, for "Type O" *1999 Rockie Award for Best Made-For-TV MovieTamsen Tillson, "Banff Rockie Awards salute peaks in TV," The Daily Variety (June 14, 1999)
Retrieved July 4, 2011. at the

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, Canada, for "

" *1999 Best Foreign Language Film nominee at the

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Film Festival, Austin, Texas, USA, for "

" *1995 Best

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Award at the MedFilm Festival, Italy, for ''Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God'' *1993 Grand Prix Coronne D'Or at the Casablanca international film festival,

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, for ''Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God'' *1993 Best Production Award by the Israeli Film Institute, Israel, for ''Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God'' *1992 Grand Jury Award at the Algarve International Film Festival,

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, "For the Sake of Appearance" *1992 Silver Plaque Award at the

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, United States, "For the Sake of Appearance" *1992 The President Award at the Mons International Film Festival, Belgium, "For the Sake of Appearance"

References

External links

*
4881 LLC official website

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