Hagai Levi
Hagai Levi (; born on 2 July 1963) is an Israeli television creator, writer, director, and producer. Early life and education. Levi was born in Sha'alvim, Israel in 1963. He studied psychology at Bar-Ilan University but left to complete his mandatory military service. Levi served in the Israeli Ground Forces before studying film at Tel Aviv University. Levi practiced Orthodox Judaism but left the faith while completing his military service. Career. Levi was a film critic for various newspapers for 10 years, as well as lecturer in the leading film schools in Israel, and was the head of  the drama department in the leading Israeli TV channel Keshet (2003–2006). Levi won a Golden Globe Award for co-creating and co-producing the television drama "The Affair" with Sarah Treem. In 2014 Levi retired from writing "The Affair", citing dissatisfaction with the commercial aspects of U.S. television development. He is also known for creating, directing and producing the television drama "BeTipul" and for producing and co-directing "In Treatment", HBO's American adaptation of the show. "BeTipul" was remade also in many other languages in countries such as Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Italy, France, Russia, The Netherlands, Poland, Hungary , Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Japan, and China. Levi served as an executive producer and consultant in most of these adaptations. Levi won the Ophir Award for producing "BeTipul", and along with Nir Bergman, he won the Israeli Academy's Best Director award for directing the series. In 2019, Levi co-created, co-produced and co-directed the television drama "Our Boys" for HBO, which premiered August 12, 2019. In that same year it was announced that he's developing a television series for Endeavour Content with Romi Aboulafia and film producer Ben Giladi. In 2013 Levi created and directed  the Israeli television mini-series "The Accursed". It was an Israeli Academy nominee for best drama series. Levi started his career after graduation from the Tel Aviv university film and Television department, with the feature film "August Snow" (1993) that he wrote, directed and co-produced. Later, Levi created and co-produced the anthology series "Short Stories about Love", which won twice the Israeli Academy Awards for best drama. He directed and co-created the medical drama series 101 (2000); co-created and co-produced the daily drama "Love Around the Corner" (2002, 270 episodes), and directed and co-wrote  the TV single drama "Premiere" (2002). He also wrote for the drama series "Shabatot Vehagim" and served as a show runner of some telenovelas. Levi also produced several award winners documentaries, among them "It Kinda Scares Me" and "Aviv", both directed by Tomer Heymann, and served as a story and script editor for numerous Israeli drama series. In 2021, Levi has written, co-produced and directed "Scenes from a Marriage", an American drama television for HBO, and starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain. It is an English-language remake of the 1973 Swedish miniseries of the same name by Ingmar  Bergman. It was presented at the 2021 Venice Film Festival and it premiered on September 12, 2021, on HBO.