Igal Hecht
Igal Hecht is a graduate of the School of Communication Arts of Seneca College where he has also been teaching for the past seven years. In 1999, Igal Hecht created Chutzpa Productions Inc, and has never looked back. His award winning films have been described as provocative, controversial and thought provoking.
To date, Igal Hecht has produced, filmed, edited and directed over thirty documentaries, combined with a slue of television shows, for various channels such as The CBC’s Documentary Channel, OMNI-TV, OUTtv, CTS, Vision-TV, iChannel, bpm:tv, Channel M, JLTV, Shalom-TV, CBC, , Court TV, Pet Network, RLTV, Viva and various other television channels.
Igal Hecht’s documentary films have been featured in numerous film festivals all over the world:
Rhode Island International Film Festival, Jerusalem Jewish Eye Film Festival, Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, Aljazeera International Television Production Festival, United Nations Association Film Festival, Inside&Out Film Festival, Brazil Film & Video Festival of Sexual Diversity, Philadelphian International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Cape Winesland International Film Festival, Pan Africa Film Festival and many others.
In addition to such prestigious festivals Hecht continues to produce and direct documentary films and television series and is set to come out with his 40th documentary film by the end of 2009.
His website is:
NOT IN MY NAME
35 ACRES
QASSAM
Disengaging Democracy
BANISHED
