2025 Utopia Festival

Tamar Lieberson

Utopia 2025, Head Festival Producer | Film and Events Producer

Israel

Producer working across film and festival contexts, involved in creative processes and professional collaborations.

Barak Stern

Utopia 2025, Festival Producer | Screenwriter, director, and producer

Screenwriter, director, and producer. A graduate of the Film Department at Minshar for Art.

Ohad Ephrath

Utopia 2025, Screenings & Technical Director | Video producer and editor, tech director at numerous Israeli film festivals

Video producer and editor working as tech director for numerous Israeli film festivals.

Yuval Adar

Head of programing, Utopia IFFF

Israel

A member of the Utopia Festival team for the past 11 years, Adar serves as a curator, content editor, and producer.

Michael Plutno

Program Coordinator, Local Orbit - Israeli Film Program, Utopia | Documentary director and photographer

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Documentary filmmaker and film theorist, photographer.

Jonathan Kopievker

Festival Programming Team, Magazine Editorial Board, Utopia | Writer and film critic, producer, editor

Cultural researcher, content editor, and film critic at Portfolio Magazine. Has lived and breathed cinema from a young age and lives as someone who writes to find meaning.

Itamar Heifetz

Art Director & Designer, Utopia magazine, events & festival | Artist, Graphic Designer, Typographer

Israel

Artist, graphic designer, typographer, with expertise in typographic and calligraphic design, alongside design for the arts & culture worlds.

Erika Mejia

Magazine Editorial Producer, Website Editor, Utopia | Mejia holds a PhD in Hebrew Literature and is a multilingual translator (Spanish, Hebrew, English, and French)

Israel/Palestine

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Yaara Better Pocker

Digital and Social Marketing, Utopia magazine, events & festival | Content Creator, Producer

Israel

Yaara Better Pocker is a writer, producer and a cliche of herself.

Gil Rimon

Tech Editor, Utopia Website | Web developer, writer

Israel / Portugal

Web developer, writer

Rina Jean Baroukh

Utopia Magazine Co-Editor, Events and Festival Programming Team, Utopia | Literature researcher, writer, translator, editor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and in the Be'er Sheva Writer's House, Editor of the literary magazine "Speculation"

Literature researcher, writer, translator, editor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and in the Be'er Sheva Writer's House, Editor of the literary magazine "Speculation".

Hadas Daniel

Festival International Programming Team, Utopia 2025 | Former manager and curator of the "Documentary at Shapira" film project

Cinephile, MA student in Cinema Studies. Former manager and curator of “Documentary at Shapira” project.

Amital Stern

Festival Programming Team, Magazine Editorial Board, Utopia | Stern writes for and about film, theater, and other arts & culture texts

Amital Stern writes film, theater and other texts. She teaches experimental writing workshops.

Tal Sara Meiri

Festival International Programming Team, Utopia | Creative and Technical Producer, Culture Researcher & DJ

Artistic director and film curator., Music, film and culture researcher, DJ and actress.

Yotam Dobrin

Festival International Programming Team, Utopia 2025 | Film Critic

Film programmer, co-founder of the Instagram page “The 4th Wall”, film critic at the websites “Seret” and “Geeklopedia”.

Yanai Sened

Festival Programming Team, Magazine Editorial Board, Utopia | Doctoral Student at Fordham University, New York City

Israel

Yanai Sened is an (ex) Programmer, (ex) Teacher, and philosophy PhD candidate, Fordham University, New York City.

Gili Porat

Film producer, curator and researcher

Israel

Film producer, curator and researcher. Porat is the Holon Cinematheques producer and co-founder of the "Trashtalk" podcast, alongside Shani Kiniso.

Dana Tor

Researcher and writer in the field of Psychoanalysis

Researcher and writer in the field of Psychoanalysis, holder of Master's degree in English Literature from TAU, in Lacanian psychoanalytic formation.

Yuval Ofer

Artistic Consultant, Utopia Magazine, Events and Film Festival | Producer, Writer, Creative, Curator, DJ and Redhead by Choice

Producer, content writer and curator, DJ and activist. Former journalist and news-editor. Ofer is a member of the Utopia magazine editorial board and an artistic consultant for the film festival.

Uri Aviv

Director, Utopia Festival & Association | Arts & Culture Project Management and Production, Program Curation, Artistic Consultancy, Speaker and Writer | Science Fiction Evangelist

Director of the Utopia Festival for Science Fiction and Future Story-telling. As the Promethean Consultancy, program curator, PMO, artistic consultant and producer, writer and speaker on topics of technology and society, science fiction and the future.