Associate Professor Dan Geva (Ph.D.), a research fellow at the university of Haifa,  graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film School in 1994 with distinct honors and he has been teaching there since. His debut film, Jerusalem: Rhythms of a Distant City (1993), won the Volgin Award and numerous international grand prizes. Since then, he has made over 25 full-length documentary films, winning world acclaim in festivals and broadcasts. Among the most notable films are What I Saw in Hebron (1999), Routine (2000), The Key (2001), Fall (2003), Think Popcorn (2004), and Noise (2012). Geva teaches documentary theory and practice, ethics, film-philosophy, and documentary history. 

Geva’s 2006 essay-film Description of a Memory, an homage to Chris Marker’s classic Description of a Struggle (1960), has been celebrated as one of the Ten Best Documentaries of the 2000s screened at the Marker-Planet World Exposition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, now issued in a double DVD set with Marker’s restored classic. As a Schusterman Grant awardee, Geva has served as a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute of Art (2010) and in 2024 he served as a MGSDII professor at UCSD, CA.

Geva is the recipient of the lucrative 2011 Dan David Prize for Promising Researcher in Cinema and Society. His four-hour TV series, entitled The Documentarians (2016), was nominated for the Israeli Ophir Prize. His first book, Toward a Philosophy of the Documentarian (2018), was published by Palgrave Macmillan, NY. Geva is the 2017 laurate of CILECT’s Teacher Award, Beit-Berl’s 2020 Innovative Pedagogy Award, and the founder of the research and global educational project “The Ethics Lab” — A CILECT project.

Geva’s second book is The Ethics Lab  Guidebook (2019). His latest essay film is entitled I Ecclesiastes (2019). In 2021 he published his third book: A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895-1959  (Springer Nature, Switzerland). His fourth book is  The Ethics Lab  Guidebook Second Edition (2022) and his fifth book is the second volume in the trilogy; A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1960-1990. He is currently working on completing the trilogy; “A Philosophical History of Documentary” with its third and final  volume;  A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1991-2025  (Springer Nature, Switzerland).