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Instructor: Yoav Potash

DMA Instructor

Yoav Potash’s work has aired on PBS stations across the country and received numerous arts grants. His 35mm film Minute Matrimony won a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and a Grand Festival Award at the Berkeley Video & Film Festival. Point of Entry, Potash’s documentary on racial profiling won an HBO/The Learning Channel short film competition. His commercial production clients include Apple Computer and Neutrogena, as well as many nonprofit organizations such as Jewish Family and Children’s Services, The Koret Foundation, and the YMCA. He teaches professional film seminars at the Film Arts Foundation, and the University of San Francisco, and is a certified trainer for Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Potash is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he received the university’s top prize in creative writing. He is currently working on a documentary project inside the largest women’s prison in the world, the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, CA.


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