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Dror Soref (Hebrew: דרור סורף) is a filmmaker who made his directorial debut with the I Love Rocky Road music video for a then unknown "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1983, shortly after attending USC Film School. Soref later directed the Best Short Film nominated “Platinum Blonde”, which drew the attention of Paramount Studios President. Consequently, Soref was retained under contract to develop projects at Paramount Studios for him to write and direct. With the help of Paramount, “The Seventh Coin” became Soref’s debut as a feature film writer/director. Starring Peter O’Toole, “The Seventh Coin” won two festival awards in 1993, including Best Picture. Throughout the following decade Soref directed or executive produced over a hundred commercials and music videos. In 2003, Soref returned to feature films, co-producing ''Basic'' for Columbia Pictures, starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. In 2009 Soref wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed thriller ''Not Forgotten'' starring Simon Baker, Paz Vega and Chloë Grace Moretz.〔 ==Early life and education== Dror Soref was born and raised in Israel and is of Spanish ancestry. He attended the University of Haifa, earning degrees in economics, sociology and anthropology. During his first year at the university, Soref founded a repertory theater, bringing to the stage original material with politically satirical content. His studies were interrupted when as a lieutenant in the elite Golani Brigade of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), Soref was called for service during several military conflicts, including the Yom Kippur War. The unit under Soref's command was cited for excellence by the IDF's Chief-of-Staff. While a student, Soref wrote frequently on Israeli-Palestinian relations, and during his second year at the university, with fellow IDF retired officers and others, he founded a new national political party which played a key role in the future coalition government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the early nineties. At the age of 23, while a third year student, Soref was nominated by his party to run for parliament. One of Soref's articles, ''Envisioning the Israeli-Palestinian Peace'', incorporates the same principles as the first peace treaty between the parties, known as the Oslo Accords (1993), but written more than a decade earlier. A number of books have been written about the movement in which Soref did participate during these years. ''University, State and Society in Israel'' by Professor Shlomo Swirski, outlines the political consciousness and insight of a movement mainly formed by Latin American and Arab students and some Israelis. In Y. Rubin's semi-autobiographical book, ''The Hypochondriac'', the author portrays Soref as the embodiment of the mythical persona of the 'ideal' Israeli youth. Soref's introduction to filmmaking came during his last year at the University of Haifa, when he was invited to attend a film workshop conducted by Benjamin Koretsky, Roman Polanski's cinematography teacher back in the Lodz Film School in Poland. To pursue film studies, Soref emigrated to the United States, first attending San Francisco Art Institute, and then the Cinema School of the University of Southern California (USC). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dror Soref」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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