Yaron Lapid - Professional CV
2005-07 MFA Fine Arts. Goldsmiths College (University of London) Department of Visual Arts.
1999- 03 BFA Fine Arts. Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Department of photography, Video studies (first class).
2010 Apple Certified Trainer Final Cut Pro.
Skills
I am an editor and a filmmaker, capable of delivering full production solutions - videography and editing, adding effects, colour and sound correcting, authoring DVDs, preparing footage for the web or for projection.
I am creative, hard working and able to work on my own or collaborate closely with a director/ artist.
As a stills photographer I can shoot, light, process, scan, print and project in both digital and analogue, and in all formats.
Software
I am fluent with FCP (Apple Certified Trainer) and have a good working knowledge of Motion, After Effects, Avid, Photoshop, Premiere and Dreamweaver.
Credits
Documentary
2010 90 Miles (in production)
Josbel Carlos has tried to escape Cuba nine times. This is his tenth and final attempt. (50 min).
Al Jazeera:
2009 Hugo and the Island (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie5XFCtP74k&feature=player_embedded)
Looking into the interests of Hugo Chavez in Dominica, a small island in the Caribbean. (11min).
Following the devastation brought to the Peruvian rainforest by international oil companies. (22 min).
BBC:
2002 The Siege of Bethlehem (Assistant editor)
A diary of the main events during the siege of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem. (50min).
Corporate
My clients include Cyber-Duck digital marketing agency, Pascal Theatre Company, Deloitte & Touche, EleyKishimoto Fashion & Print designers, Fora.tv big-idea lectures on the web, Dunbar Toys, Greenstone property agency and many more. For full credit list please contact me.
For latest work referencing Lewis Carroll, created for EleyKishimoto for the London fashion week 2010, click here.
Tutor
2009 Filmmaking tutor for MA, Dep. of Anthropology at UCL, London.
2009 Editing skills tutor, London Film Academy (ongoing).
2009 Documentary crash courses tutor for Oxford Academy of Documentary Filmmakers (ongoing).
2007 Editing Skills Tutor at DFG (Documentary Filmmakers Group).
2007 Editing skills and Premiere Tutor at Harlequin Solutions Training.
2007 Editing Skills, theory and concept Tutor, BA, Dep. of Art and Social science Kingston University.
2006 Filmmaking and editing skills, regular visiting tutor for MA and PhD, Dep. of Visual Anthropolog, Goldsmiths College, London (ongoing).
Filmmaker
I show my work regularly in film festivals, galleries and museums around the world. The following were directed, shot and edited by me:
2009 Arcadia, Downtown. Documentary (15 min) screened among other places in The Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Boston Underground Film Festival.
2005 Night Meter. Documentary (6 min) screened among other places in The Jerusalem documentary Festival and The Directors Lounge, Berlin.
2003 You Have Not Found His Riddle. Documentary (16 min), screened among other places in Whitechapel Gallery. [link on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3465610/].
