Picture of His Life

World-renowned Israeli wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum is gearing up for the most challenging expedition of his career: photographing a polar bear in its natural habitat, underwater in the Canadian Arctic. The 65-year-old Jaffa-born photographer has long been fascinated by the spectacular beauty of nature and its most striking creatures. Having communed with sharks, killer whales, crocodiles and the like, his photographs have been featured in the world’s leading nature magazines. In this fascinating portrait of a man dedicated to his photographic dream, filmmakers Dani Menkin (MJFF 2017 On the Map and MJFF 2012 Dolphin Boy) and Yonatan Nir (MJFF 2017 film My Hero Brother and MJFF 2018 The Essential Link), with the support of producer Nancy Spielberg (MJFF 2015 and 2019 Audience Award-winners Who Will Write Our History and Above and Beyond) follow Nachoum on his quest to get the “picture of his life,” an undertaking deemed extraordinarily daring by even the photographer himself.

The tenth annual Israeli Film Night series is made possible with the support of the Miami Beach JCC and a generous sponsorship by Holly Levy.