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He created and co-produced the anthology drama series "Short Stories about Love" (1997; won twice the Israeli Academy Awards' best drama); directed and co-created the medical drama series "101 (2000)''; co created and executive produced the daily drama "Love Around the Corner" (2002, 270 episodes), and directed and co-wrote the TV drama "Premiere" (2002); among others.
Levi was a film critic for 10 years, as well as lecturer in the leading film schools in Israel, and was the head of drama department in the leading Israeli TC channel.
BornJuly 2, 1963
Born in Israel in 1963, Levi created and directed the highly acclaimed Israeli TV series Be'Tipul, (2005-2008), later adapted to the HBO's series "In Treatment" (2007-2010), which won several Emmy and Golden Globe awards; Levi was also an executive producer of In Treatment and directed several episodes.
Hagai Levi
director
Hagai Levi is an Israeli film and television director, writer, editor, producer and critic.
Career
Levi is best known for creating, directing and producing the television drama BeTipul and for producing In Treatment, Home Box Office"s American adaptation of the show.
In 2013 Levi created and directed a 5-hour mini-series, "The Accursed"', for HOT (Israeli cable company). Be'Tipul has been adapted and produced in another 16 countries, including Italy, Russia, The Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and more. He also wrote for the drama series Shabatot Vehagim and edited several telenovelas. In Therapy won countless awards and was even sold to US cable network, HBO that produced its own remake (In Treatment), which was the first in a string of many, international adaptations the series would have.
In 2014, Levi created mockumentary series, The Accursed, followed by Showtime’s The Affair that won him a Golden Globe.
Levi wrote, directed and co-produced the feature film "August Snow" (93').
Born in Israel in 1963, Levi created and directed the highly acclaimed Israeli TV series Be'Tipul, (2005-2008), later adapted to the HBO's series "In Treatment" (2007-2010), which won several Emmy and Golden Globe awards; Levi was also an executive producer of In Treatment and directed several episodes.
Levi next produced three documentaries, It Kinda Scares me and Aviv – both directed by Tomer Heymann, and Timna Rosenheimer’s My Sister. In 2014 Levi co-created and co-produced the series "The Affair", staring Dominic West, which premiered in Showtime network on October 2014. Levi, by that point, had created and produced numerous TV series however his big break came with In Therapy, which he developed along with Ori Sivan and Nir Bergman.
The series premiered in 2019 to great critical acclaim. In 2014 Levi co-created and co-produced the series "The Affair", staring Dominic West, which premiered in Showtime network on October 2014. In February 2013, the American cable channel Showtime ordered a television pilot for a series co-created by Levi.
Titled The Affair, the series focused on relationships told from the points of view of both men and women.
The first episodes of the series was also co-created by fellow In Treatment writer/producer Sarah Treem, but Levi later retired from writing the series, stating that the series took a path different from the one he had envisioned and that Treem was therefore "the best person" to author the show.
Achievements
Along with Nir Bergman, he won the Israeli Academy"s Best Director award for directing BeTipul"s first season.
He created and co-produced the anthology drama series "Short Stories about Love" (1997; won twice the Israeli Academy Awards' best drama); directed and co-created the medical drama series "101 (2000)''; co created and executive produced the daily drama "Love Around the Corner" (2002, 270 episodes), and directed and co-wrote the TV drama "Premiere" (2002); among others.
He next teamed up with Joseph Cedar and Tawfik Abu Wael to create Our Boys, a series set around the true events that led to the abduction and killing of Palestinian teenager, Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Levi was a film critic for 10 years, as well as lecturer in the leading film schools in Israel, and was the head of drama department in the leading Israeli TC channel.
Hagai Levi
Hagai Levi is an Israeli director and film producer.
Born in kibbutz Sha’alvim, Levi is a graduate of Bar Ilan University’s Department of Psychology and Philosophy, and Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies. Be'Tipul has been adapted and produced in another 16 countries, including Italy, Russia, The Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and more.
Levi took his early professional steps as a writer and critic for the now-defunct daily paper, Hadashot and local Tel Aviv magazines, Tel Aviv Times (‘zman Tel Aviv’) and The City (‘Ha’ir.’) In 1993 he directed his debut feature film, August Snow and in 1996, created and took part in the making of Short Stories about Love – a nine-part film anthology that included, amongst others, Malka Lev Adom (‘red queen’), Shuly’s Fiance, Gotta Have Heart, and Hatulot Hara’am (‘thunder pussycats’).