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Gil Kofman was born in Nigeria. He is known for The Memory Thief (2007), Lost in the White City (2014) and Unmade in China (2012).
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Gil Kofman. Discipline: Director, Producer, Writer. Program Year: Directing Lab 2012, Producing Lab 2011, Screenwriting Lab 2011. Follow Us. Bio. Gil Kofman received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama in playwriting. Before that he studied Physics at Cornell and was enrolled in the MFA film program at NYU.
The Memory Thief is a 2007 American independent drama film. It was written and directed by Gil Kofman and features Mark Webber and Rachel Miner in the leading roles.
Gil Kofman. Region: Los Angeles, CA. MacDowell Fellowships: 2016. Gil Kofman was born in Nigeria and raised in Kenya, Israel, and NYC. He studied physics at Cornell before attending NYU Graduate Film School, and later receiving an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
May 3, 2013 · The documentary “Unmade in China” shows the setbacks and power grabs that befell the writer and filmmaker Gil Kofman while he was directing the thriller “Case Sensitive” in China.
- Tanner King Barklow, Gil Kofman
May 9, 2008 · Morally audacious and intriguingly original, “The Memory Thief” is the first feature by the playwright Gil Kofman and an attempt to counter Hollywood’s formulaic approach to the Holocaust...
For first-time film director Gil Kofman, connection with the Holocaust was through his father-in-law, himself a survivor. In writing the script, he strove to honour those who did and did not survive the Holocaust by actively avoiding sentimentality and emotional manipulation of the audience.
