Alon Bar


Alon Bar is an Israeli-American filmmaker.
He wrote the award-winning feature film "Aaron Cohen's Debt,". which he later adapted to the award-winning American screenplay "Under Arrest".
He directed, wrote and produced the award-winning documentary film , which was the first Israeli film ever to participate a film festival in an Arab country.
He is a graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory with a Master Degree in screenwriting. He holds a Bachelor Degree in film and television from Tel Aviv University. He participated in , the screenwriting laboratory of the European Union's initiative and taught documentary filmmaking at UCLA extension.
In 1993, while still a student in Tel Aviv, he became the protégé of director David Perlov, a laureate of the Israel Prize. Following their first project, "Tel Katzir 1993," he collaborated as a researcher, writer and assistant director on four of Perlov's films.
In 1994, he produced "Video Dance Premiers 1994," a collection of videodance made for the Batsheva Dance Company.
In the early 2000s, he collaborated on the un-produced screenplay "Whiteout" with Carl Gottlieb, and wrote the un-produced screenplay "Plastic Bridges," through improvisations with a group of actors including Enrico Colantoni and Amy Pietz.
Since 2006, he is the president and co-owner with Nancy Sexton of 4881 LLC, a multifaceted platform, serving as a launch pad for creativity. Amongst others, the collaboration between Bar and Sexton created the award-winning screenplay "Type O," and the screenplays to the romantic comedy "Bonus Day" and the animation feature "Ruby", both currently in pre-production.
In 2011, he co-authored with Nancy Sexton the book "Write Your Film," a screenwriting manual exploring the two unique writing system and collaboration.
In 2018, he co-wrote with Nancy Sexton the PixL TV feature film "The Wedding Do Over", a romantic comedy starring Nicole Gale Anderson and Parker Young that originally aired on Valentine's Day, Feb. 3, 2018.

Films in production