Tamar Glezerman is a writer, director and political organizer from Tel-Aviv, living and working in Brooklyn.
Her dark comedy short “Fill Your Heart with French Fries” - starring Lindsay Burdge - won Short of the Week’s comedy of the year, and has racked up over a million online views. She has directed the music video “Don’t Pull Away” for J.Views ft. Rhye - featuring Indya Moore, as well as the socio-political short “Division Ave” and a campaign for Planned Parenthood starring exclusively cats. She is represented by Writ Large and is currently in development and pre-production on two features.
Tamar’s work has been shown on The New-York Times, NPR, MSNBC, Nowness, Refinery29, NBC.com, CoolHunting, LOGO, and more. She has edited and consulted on films which played Sundance and Berlin, as well as for clients such as Bob Dylan & Disney.
Tamar is also a political organizer. After losing her aunt on Oct 7, Tamar co-founded Israelis For Peace to mobilize for a ceasefire & hostage deal, an end to the occupation & a shared Israeli-Palestinian future. She has written and spoken on the topic extensively for the Guardian, The NYT, Haaretz, The Forward and many other publications.
She is currently writing a book of personal-political essays for Ayin Press.