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War is coming in Guy Nattiv's Golda, onscreen and off. But despite the media's best efforts to turn the casting of British, non-Jewish actor Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir into an explosive example of cultural appropriation, both Nattiv's direction and Mirren's performance are low-key…

Israeli director Guy Nattiv has defended his casting of non-Jewish actress Helen Mirren as iconic Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in his biopic Golda, which world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival on Monday. UK actress Maureen Lipman kicked off a debate around the issue in early 2022 when she…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the first teaser for Guy Nattiv's biopic Golda starring Helen Mirren as Israel's iconic Prime Minister Golda Meir ahead of its world premiere at the Berlinale next week (Feb 20). “As someone who grew up with Golda as a heroic myth, almost beyond human, and as the only…

WestEnd Films has acquired world rights to Untitled Judo, a political thriller co-directed by Guy Nattiv (Skin, Golda) and actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider). The film is currently in post-production. WestEnd Films will launch sales at this year's European Film Market. The pic is the first…

EXCLUSIVE:  WME has inked Oscar winning writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producing partner Jaime Ray Newman. In 2019, the duo won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Skin, which they then developed into a full-length feature starring Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga and Danielle Macdonald. That movie won…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Guy Nattiv has signed with Range Media Partners. His upcoming directorial feature, Golda, will star Helen Mirren in the titular role as Israel's only female prime minister, Golda Meir. The biopic chronicles the dramatic events and high-stakes decisions Meir faced during the Yom Kippur…

EXCLUSIVE: Long-distance relationships are easy for some couples, but for others, it can be difficult to navigate — and Quibi is looking to explore exactly that with the forthcoming series The Long Distance Relationship Project (wt) from real-life Oscar-winning filmmaking couple Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman (Skin)…

Keshet Studios is prepping The Stuntwoman, a limited series based on the book of the same name by Julie Ann Johnson and Deadline’s David Robb. The project, about Johnson, a pioneer for women stunt performers and one of Hollywood’s first whistle-blowers, hails from Israeli writer-producer Guy Nattiv and his…

Only three months ago, Guy Nattiv won his first Oscar for a short film entitled Skin, offering the best possible lead-up for his feature of the name same, out this July. Rooted in a jaw-dropping performance by Jamie Bell, the feature centers on Bryon Widner, a tattoo-covered skinhead, who decides to turn his back on…

“Guys like this only have three options: Die young, life in prison or they start talkin’.” The subjects of that quote are white supremacists, and Guy Nattiv’s Skin studies one such conflicted soul. Watch the first trailer above. The logline: After a difficult childhood drives him into the grasps of a white supremacist…

With their first Oscars in hand tonight for Skin, their live-action short, director Guy Nattiv and producer Jaime Ray Newman are already looking forward to the release of the feature version, which hits theaters on July 26. “We have a baby Skin, and now a feature Skin,” Nattiv said with a smile, standing in the press…

Guy Nattiv’s Oscar-nominated short film Skin has been acquired by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The acquisition was announced today by Fox Searchlight Pictures' Chairmen Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula and EVP, Global Acquisition & Co-Prod, TCF Acquisitions Ray Strache. "We're thrilled to work with Guy Nattiv on his…