Amit Breuer

Amit Breuer is an Israeli-Canadian award-winning documentary producer, founder of Amythos Films.In 2002, Breuer received the prestigious Israeli Arts Council Award for cinema art recognizing her body of work’s significant contribution to domestic documentary cinema as well as her founding role in the Noga Communications Doc Channel between 1997-2001.
In 2004 she immigrated from Israel to Canada and is currently residing in Toronto with her partner and her daughter. She is a guest speaker at numerous events and educational institutions and a jury member/programmer /consultant for festivals and industry events around the world. She is also developing new projects for traditional and new media. Events she attended include, but are not limited to: IDFA (jury member of Joris Ivens Award Amsterdam 2001) Hot Docs (Canadian Spectrum jury member,Toronto 2005) Copenhagen CPH DOX (Amnesty Award jury member 2007) Thessaloniki DocFest Greece, Haifa Film Festival Israel and the Sunny Side of the Doc Marseilles France.
Breuer is also a founding member of the DocAgora Association and International Working Group which organizes conferences and workshops on the future of socially engaged documentaries in the digital era. She is also the co-founder/co-programmer of the Toronto Israeli Palestinian Film festival Voices Forward and has worked as a Programmer for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival since 2005. (09/09)

Purity
A film by Anat Zuria, Produced by Amit Breuer, 2002, 63 min., Color
Israeli filmmaker Anat Zuria examines the Tharat Hamishpaha (family purity), the ancient laws and rituals shaping women’s lives and sexuality within J...

Sentenced to Marriage
A film by Anat Zuria, Produced by Amit Breuer, 2004, 65 min., Color
Nominated for a Silver Wolf at IDFA, this shocking documentary exposes the Kafkaesque process of divorce for women in Israel where secular law does no...