Uri Lotan | |
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Born | Israel | April 28, 1986
Citizenship | Israel |
Occupation(s) | Director, animator, illustrator |
Known for | Black Slide |
Uri Lotan (born April 28, 1986) is an Israeli filmmaker. He is mostly known for his Oscar-shortlisted [1] short film Black Slide (2021). [2] [3]
Uri Lotan is an animation director based in Tel Aviv, Israel. [4] [5] After graduating from Ringling College of Art and Design with a Bachelors of Fine Art in 2012, [6] he worked on feature films and TV series for Disney, Sony, Imageworks, Netflix and Kuku Studios [7] including the Emmy Award-winning television show Go! Go! Cory Carson [8] as episode director. [9] He worked as an animator on the animated feature Hotel Transylvania 2. [10] Lotan also continued to pursue advertisement work with Hornet, [11] Buck, Eddy and The Hive Studio [12] on a wide range of projects.
With Black Slide (2021), Lotan won the Best International Short Film Award at Chilemonos [15] and the Animated Grand Prize at IndyShorts. [16] His student film The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete was nominated for Best Student Film at the 40th Annie Awards. [6] With his short Ma'agalim, he won the Saatachi & Saatachi New Directors Award [17] His short film Feeling Sad earned him an Annie Award nomination for Best Animated Special Production. [18]