Shachar Langlev

Shachar Langlev is a director and cinematographer whose films have screened around the country including at the Sundance Film Festival and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He was the director of photography on ALIVE INSIDE, which won the Audience Award at Sundance and was released in theaters nation-wide. 

Shachar directed and produced a series of high-profile short documentary films featuring notable subjects such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, and Bryan Stevenson. 

Most recently, Shachar was the cinematographer on SOUL ON FIRE, a feature film about Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Elie Wiesel; the film premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival. 

He is the cinematographer on a feature documentary currently in production, LET NO ONE LOSE HEART, which is supported by the Robert Redford Foundation and the Ford Foundation. 

Shachar is also the director of photography on an upcoming fiction film, now in post, featuring Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, and Molly Ringwald, among others. The feature is based on the short film Shachar shot— the award winning, Oscar qualifying, Vimeo staff pick, RUN AMOK. 

Shachar is an adjunct professor at City College and Brooklyn College in New York where he teaches in the undergrad and master departments cinematography and production.