2019
Search results
Yaniv Rokah grew up on the Mediterranean in Netanya, Israel. As a young adult, he moved to New York to become an actor. Career. Rokah moved to New York in 1999, and to Los Angeles in 2006. He attended New York's Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
Yaniv Rokah. Director: Queen Mimi. Yaniv Rokah is known for Queen Mimi (2015), World War Z (2013) and Dig (2015).
May 13, 2016 · Rokah cites Mimi's youthful personality and contagious spirit as one of the reasons he wanted others to know her story, but it took some time—five years to be exact.
May 18, 2016 · Yaniv Rokah certainly wasn’t the only Los Angeles barista working part time while chasing his full time dreams. As an aspiring actor and filmmaker, Rokah was logging time at a Santa Monica café when he met an extraordinary 89-year-old woman named “Mimi”—soon to become the subject of Rokah’s feature documentary debut.
May 13, 2016 · Queen Mimi: Directed by Yaniv Rokah. With Zach Galifianakis, Renée Zellweger, Yaniv Rokah, Graham McTavish. Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found "home" at a Santa Monica laundromat.
Among them was Yaniv Rokah, a neighborhood coffee barista who made the octogenarian the subject of a 77-minute documentary titled Queen Mimi (available through iTunes and Netflix).
May 14, 2016 · When Yaniv Rokah, director of Queen Mimi, met Mimi Haist he knew there was something special about the older woman. Mimi, who had been living in a laundromat on Montana Avenue in...
