Biography
Tamir Elterman was born in Berkeley. He started studying psychology in Santa Cruz, and in 2006, he graduated with a master's degree in psychology and economics from the University of Oregon. He founded the production company Three Cities Productions, which operated in California and Tel Aviv and specialized in TV documentaries and corporate videos. From 2010 to 2011, he completed a post-graduate program at the Columbia School of Journalism in New York. Elterman then liquidated his production company in order to work freelance as a video journalist. Among his employers was the New York Times, for which he covered stories on Palestinian prisoners in Israel and Syrian refugees in Jordan, and on the dispute in Israel over Orthodox Jews who are spared the mandatory military service as conscientious objectors.
Elterman presented his documentary short "Spring Chicken" at the 2016 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. The film portrays a 94-year-old woman who survived the Holocaust and who comes up with new, eccentric and hilarious costumes for the celebration of Purim every year. Elterman next teamed up with New York Times photo journalist Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander for the feature-length documentary "Muhi – Generally Temporary"(DE/IT). The film follows Muhi, the then six-year-old son of a Hamas activist, who has been living in an Israeli hospital since his birth because of his severe medical condition. "Muhi – Generally Temporary" won the award for Best Debut at the DocAviv Film Festival in Tel Aviv.