Roy Cohen
France

Roy Cohen is a film director, currently in production with Ben’s Robot, a documentary about artificial intelligence entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. Roy is the Creative Director of Gottlieb Productions, where he develops a transmedia project about the spiritual leaders in Jerusalem. A member of Sandbox Global Network, Roy is producing media projects to promote awareness to such underrepresented global issues as illegal mining in Peru (with NGO Organisación Desarollo Sostenible) and the plight of Syrian refugees (with Israeli Flying Aid). In 2012, Roy’s narrative short film as a director, Eye Lift, was shown in international film festivals. Roy worked in various production roles on such American shows as the feature film California Solo and TV comedy Svetlana. As a writer about cultural affairs, Roy has been published in Chilean newspaper El Mercurio and Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth. Roy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where he studied Neuroscience and Film.