Tzvi

Tzvi was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that viewed most modern cinema as contraband. As a result, Tzvi grew up clandestinely watching films, including his favorites: Stanley Donen's Charade, Star Wars: A New Hope, and Fellini's 8 1/2. His debut feature film, Killer of Men, made on a $10,000 budget, premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival, which Eric Kohn hailed as "one of the best debuts of 2024" and called Tzvi "a visionary auteur." Filmmaker magazine called it "an eerily austere serial killer drama, with a (possible) science fiction twist." In his free time, Tzvi writes short fiction, essays on cinema, and runs the monthly screening series The Film Underground, focused on democratizing cinema.