Yossi Atia

Yossi Atia (Hebrew: יוסי עטיה, born in 1979 in Jerusalem), is an Israeli artist, active primarily as a film director, video artist, and actor. Yossi Atia was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel, to a Sephardic Jewish family.

Studied directing and production at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem (2004). Studied in Tel Aviv University, earned a BA in literature in 2007. Studied for his MFA in Directing and Production in Tel Aviv University's Film Department (2010).

Graduated from Ruth Dytches workshop, acting for Television and Film (2010).

Between the years 2005–2010, Atia created and acted, together with Itamar Rose, in twenty short films. These were satirical short movies on contentious social and political issues.

Their movies aimed that people take a new look at their reality and at disturbing issues. Their Movies break taboos, dealing with subjects such as homosexuality, bereavement, rape, occupation, suicide bombing and the war in Lebanon.

Their films were screened initially at coffee shops, bars, clubs and galleries.

Since then, the films were screened in many museums and film festivals, including Pompidou Center, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Rotterdam Film Festival; The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 2010 he created an Urban Comical Performance in Tel Aviv called "From a Fling to a Relationship".

During August 2012 Atia led a guided tour named “from trauma to fantasy" which was held as part of the cultural season in Jerusalem 4 times. The tour took place at Jerusalem's Jaffa Road following the footsteps of the Palestinian suicide bombings that had occurred in the area during the years 2000–2005.

The tour was recorded for a film Atia is making.

These days Atia is working on a feature film called "born in jerusalem and still alive".

In 2015 he won the Jerusalem Pitch Point prize for his debut feature from Lia van Leer fund.

Atia lives and works in Tel Aviv.