Salvador Litvak

Salvador Litvak (born 1965)[1] is an American screenwriter, film director and producer who, with his wife Nina Davidovich Litvak, co-wrote the movies When Do We Eat? and Saving Lincoln. Litvak also directed and produced both films.

Salvador Litvak
Born1965
Santiago, Chile
OccupationDirector, screenwriter, producer
Years active1994–present
Spouse(s)Nina Davidovich Litvak (2 children)

Career

Litvak was born in Santiago, Chile in 1965 and came to the United States at the age of five. The rest of his childhood was spent in and around New York City. He majored in English at Harvard, where he lettered on the heavyweight rowing team and graduated with honors. He then moved on to NYU Law School, earned his Juris Doctor degree, and passed the New York State Bar Exam.[2]

While attending law school, Litvak mounted a series of multimedia performance art pieces in Greenwich Village. After finishing law school, he took a job as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Skadden Arps while continuing his writing. After two years, he left the practice of law to enroll in the graduate Directors' Program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.

While at UCLA, Litvak won an MPAA scholarship and multiple awards. He directed a music video for three-time Grammy nominee Suzanne Ciani and made a short called Dick & Slick Go to the Restaurant, which won a Spotlight Award for Comedy of the Year. His 30-minute 35mm thesis film, Great Harry & Jane (1994), won an award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

After graduating from UCLA, Litvak worked as a script reader at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and as a film professor at Antelope Valley College.

His first feature film, When Do We Eat?, was released theatrically by THINKFilm in 2006.

Litvak followed it up with Saving Lincoln in 2013, based on the true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon. Saving Lincoln features a visual style invented by Litvak named CineCollage, in which live action elements are inserted into 3D environments composited from vintage photographs.[3]

In 2012, Litvak finished reading the entire Talmud after participating in the 7.5 year Daf Yomi cycle. Wanting to share the wisdom he learned, Litvak started a blog and a Facebook page called Accidental Talmudist. Together with his wife Nina, Litvak shares Jewish wisdom, faith, culture, history and music with over a million followers.[4][5][6][7] Litvak also edits the Table For Five column for the Jewish Journal of L.A. in which in five writers comment on a verse from the weekly Torah portion. In 2019, Litvak partnered with the Jewish Journal to launch The Accidental Talmudist Podcast.[8]

References
  1. "Silver Mine Entertainment". www.silvermineentertainment.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  2. "An Accidental Journey". Jewish Independent.
  3. http://www.indiewire.com/2013/02/in-his-own-words-writer-director-salvador-litvak-shares-a-scene-from-his-micro-budget-cinecollage-film-saving-lincoln-41180/
  4. Gocs, Danny (6 June 2014). "Roller Coaster Ride for Jewish Filmmaker". The Australian Jewish News. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  5. Fishman, Yehudis (5 June 2017). "A Remarkable Man Comes to Boulder". Boulder Jewish News. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  6. "Accidental Talmudist comes to Downtown Disney to blow his shofar (ram's horn) ahead of Rosh Hashana". Orange County Register. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  7. "'Positivity Bias' Strikes a Deep Chord With International Audiences - First printing quickly sold out; requests coming in for translations". www.chabad.org. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  8. Litvak, Salvador (2019-08-13). "Stephen Tobolowsky: My Adventures with God". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.