RAFI SPIVAK – RESUME
604 3405047
rafispivak@telus.net
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SUMMARY
Award winning editor with over 10 years experience editing documentaries, lifestyle and drama
My credits include over 20 hours of television programs
Experienced Story editor for lifestyle programs and documentary films
20 years experience teaching. For the past seven years I've been teaching film at UBC, Langara college, Emily Carr University, and Simon Fraser University
EDITING
| 2010 | 10 things I can't live without Lifestyle Pilot, Paperny Films, HGTV |
| 2010 | Vancouver Rising Documentary, Director Harry Killas, Bravo! |
| 2010 | Panoptic feature film, Director Bruce Sweaney |
| 2009 | Excited feature film, Director Bruce Sweaney |
| 2009 | CannaBiz Documentary, Director Lionel Godard for Omni Films, CBC DocZone |
| 2009 | The Stagers Season 2 (Ep 14, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25) lifestyle/design series for HGTV. Paperny Films |
| 2008 | The Stagers Season 1 (Ep 10, 12) lifestyle/design series for HGTV. Paperny Films |
| 2008 | D'gary from Madagascar A feature length documentary |
| 2008 | The Graduates one-hour documentary Knowledge Network |
| 2007 | The Week The Women Went, CBC, Paperny Films |
| 2007 | Ripples A short Drama for CTV |
| 2007 | Dreams of Flight one-hour documentary for Bravo! Sanata Barabara International Film Festival. Nominated for the Leo award as Best Editor, 2008 |
| 2006 | Code Green Canada (Ep 1,2,3,4,5,6) CBC. Documentary/reality. Editor and supervising editor |
| 2005 | Beneath My Feet Drama. Bravo!Fact. Director Steve Rosenberg |
| 2005 | Raised to be Heroes One-hour Documentary. National Film Board Of Canada. Broadcast on CBC's Pasionate Eye in 2008. Official selection HotDocs 2006, VIFF 2006 |
| 2005 | Code Green Lifestyle/home-renovation series (Ep 1,2), CBC. Laughing Mountain |
| 2005 | Dreaming Louie Sam 7 Min. DocuDrama. Bravo!Fact |
| 2005 | Dark Pines One-hour docudrama. Bravo! Laughing Mountain communications Winner best editing award at the Yorkton Film Festival, 2006 |
| 2004 | Corona Station 7 Minutes, short Drama. BravoFact! Presented at the Vancouver International Film Festival |
| 2003 | Super Kids One-hour Documentary film. CBC. Laughing Mountain Communication. Nominated for Best Documentary at Yorkton Film Festival |
| 2003 | Fragments of Proximity 7 Min. Documentary. CBC. National Film Board. Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, 2005 |
| 2002 | The Man In Pyjamas 16 Min. Comedy. Victoria international film festival, Fike Evora (Portugal) international film festival |
TEACHING AND INSTRUCTING EXPERIENCE |
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| 2008-10 | Emily Carr Institute, sessional teacher - Edit II |
| 2006-10 | UBC, Adjunct professor, teaching post production and documentary production |
| 2005-07 | Langara College, Digital Film Program, Editing and FCP instructor |
| 2004 | SFU, Film making year 1, Course instructor |
| 2003 | SFU, video production Course instructor (mainly teaching Final Cut Pro to film students) |
EDUCATION |
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| 2000 | Vancouver Film School, film |
| 1999 | Tel-Aviv University, film and television |
| 1992-95 | B.Sc in mathematics and computer science from Tel-Aviv University |
| 1990-92 | Psychology and Philosophy, Bar Ilan University, Israel |