Biography

Yair Hochner was born in Kfar Save, Israel
With the encouragement of notable directors Keren Yedaya and Tomer Heiman, Yair set out to direct his script, Good Boys (Yeladim Tovim), which received acclaim as the Winner of OUTstanding Emerging Talent Award Outfest (2005); Winner of the Showtime Vanguard Award NewFest; Jury Grand Prize - Feature Film image+nation International LGBT Film Festival n Montreal; Winner of: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Cinematography -Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; and Winner, Best Israeli Film, Eilat International Film Festival.
Yair taught cinema to high school students for five years in Netania. Currently he writes fim reviews for Seret (Film), Israel’s leading cinema site. He has written articles for the Cinematheque Magazine, as well as short stories for the Tel Aviv newspaper and Camera Obscura magazine.
Yair Hochner is the artistic director of the TLVFest, the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival since co-founding it in 2006.
In 2007 he wrote and directed his second feature Antarctica, distributed by
Regent Releasing.
In 2008 he co-produced Fucking Different Tel Aviv with Kristian Petersen, the official selection of the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.

Juries

2011: Mix Copenhagen
2010: Porn Filmfestival Berlin
2010: Skeive Filmer Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
2009: Crossing Borders - 3rd International Short Film Competition, Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv and the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future".
2008: The 16th Mix Brasil Film and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity.
2008: Icon 2008 - The 12th Annual Science Fiction Fantasy and Role-Playing Festival, Tel Aviv
2008: Iris Prize - Cardiff's International Gay & Lesbian Short Film Festival
2008: Teddy Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Lectures

2009: LGBT Filmmaking and the world of LGBT film festivals.
Film Festival of Sexual Diversity, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2008: Sex In New York After 9/11: An Introduction to "Shortbus" Screening, Herzlya Cinematheque
2007: From Erotica to Pornography in Israeli Cinema - Porn Filmfestival, Berlin

Photograph by Laurent Burst