Biography

Idit Dvir is an associate professor at Howard University (DC), where she’s been teaching filmmaking and screenwriting since 2007. She volunteers with WOMEN IN MEDIA, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting inclusiveness and parity in the industry, and has served as head judge and story consultant for initiatives like CAMERAderie and The Altitude Awards.

Dvir earned her MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles, where she was the recipient of the 2005 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholarship. She interned under Kramer Morgenthau, ASC, on the blockbuster FRACTURE, where she met writer/director Glenn Gers, for whom she shot DISFIGURED.

Her directorial debut short, CHERCHEZ LA FEMME, screened at deadCENTER and Clermont-Ferrand. Her scripts made Official Selection at fests such as Beverly Hills, Cinequest, Final Draft’s Big Break, Filmmakers’ International Screenwriting Awards, Austin, Vail, and the Nicholl Fellowship, to name a few.