Nitai Dagan is a Sam Spiegel graduate, a writer-director, editor, and “mejenerator” working in New York and Israel simultaneously. How? A time machine. Nitai began as a child actor, and after one of his characters flew in a flying car to the moon, he flew to the other side of the camera.
He created Film Eaters, a podcast about cinema, philosophy, and everything in between; directs and edits the Brooklyn Coffee Shop series, which reached 300K followers and 200M views on Instagram—but who’s counting. His VR project Eddie and I, which he wrote, was nominated at the Venice Film Festival 2025. The short film he wrote, Faygeleh, screened at the Santa Barbara IFF and was produced by Sean Baker, NEON, and Kodak. His docu-fiction-AI project Failing Forward won the title “Digital Promise of the Year” from the French Ministry of Culture—in other words, bonjour. On television, he was a dialogue writer on the teen series Kfula and directed cameras on Big Brother, because if you’re doing emotions, you might as well do them in prime time. Nitai loves new technologies, has directed videos for Times Square, consults for micro-drama companies worldwide, and above all knows how to distill big ideas onto the small screen.