Guilhad Emilio Schenker

Guilhad Emilio Schenker (Hebrew: גלעד אמיליו שנקר, born 2 October 1980 in Santiago de León de Caracas, Metropolitan Region of Caracas, Capital District, Venezuela) is an Israeli independent filmmaker who has won awards at Detroit Windsor International Film Festival, Saint Petersburg International Film Festival, and Washington Jewish Film Festival (and was also nominated for awards at Montreal World Film Festival) and has worked with the Ministry of Education’s Israeli Educational Television, the Israel Defense Forces’s Army Radio, The Second Authority for Television and Radio’s Channel 2, Gideon Tadmor [he], the Zappa Group [he], and Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music best known for his 2017 directorial debut Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club. He is a Berlinale Talents (an annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival) alumnus and holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Tel Aviv University’s Steve Tisch School of Film and Television [he].