Here is the biography of Dror Soref:
Dror Soref, an award-winning Hollywood writer-director, began his career as a screenwriter when the president of 20th Century Fox read his first screenplay and offered it to the renowned director, Francois Truffaut. Although Truffaut was too sick to accept the offer, the Studio chief hired Soref as his story editor.
At the encouragement of the Fox president, Soref started directing music videos for "Weird Al" Yankovic, which helped establish the rock parodist as a major star. Following his success in music videos, Soref directed Platinum Blonde, an inspirational short film that drew the attention of Paramount Studio's president. Consequently, Soref was retained under contract to develop projects at Paramount.
With the help of the Studio, The Seventh Coin became Soref's debut as a feature film writer/director. The film, starring Peter O'Toole, won two festival awards, including Best Picture.
During the early years of his 25-year relationship with Paramount, Soref founded Orbit Productions, serving as one of its commercial directors. Orbit's clients included Ford, Coca Cola, Toyota, McDonald's, and Fujifilm, with ads broadcast on the Super Bowl and Academy Awards shows.
Soref also dabbled in episodic television, directing several episodes of Power Rangers, the hit children's TV series. He parlayed a successful career in television and commercials back into feature films, signing a multiple-picture deal with legendary Hollywood mogul Mike Medavoy. The first motion picture under this deal was Basic, starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, released by Columbia Pictures.
Soref later wrote and directed the critically acclaimed thriller Not Forgotten, starring Simon Baker, Paz Vega, and Chloe Grace Moretz. The film was selected for a Special Screening at the Slamdance Film Festival and received rave reviews from The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety. It was also nominated for the Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
Soref was later hired to write and direct a trilogy of feature films titled The Amani Chronicles, a young-adult adventure inspired by Jan Austin's most famous novel Pride and Prejudice. The first film in the trilogy, Island Girl, is currently in pre-production.
Soref served in the Israeli Defense Force as a combat officer in the elite Golani Brigade, where the unit under his command was cited for excellence by the IDF's former Chief of Staff.
Soref received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Haifa, Israel, graduating with Honors. While a student, he frequently wrote on Israeli-Palestinian relations, and was nominated by his party, at the age of 23, to run for Parliament. Soref later studied film production for a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Southern California (USC).
