Isaac Zablocki

Isaac Zablocki is the Director of the Israel Film Center at the JCC in Manhattan. He was born in New York, and grew up in Israel and served in the IDF's leading film unit as an Educational film producer. He attended film school at Columbia University and went on to work at Miramax films. He produced and directed a feature film entitled Reality Lost and developed film educational programs for the Board of Education. Since 2004 Isaac has been the Director of Film Programs at the JCC in Manhattan. He programs over seven film festivals a year including the acclaimed Other Israel Film Festival about Arab and minority populations in Israel, and Reelabilites: NY Disabilities Film Festival - now a national program in over 13 major cities across the U.S. As Director of the Israel Film Center, he is the leading programmer of Israeli films in the U.S. and developed the largest on-line database of Israeli films as well as Israel Film Center Stream, the leading site for streaming Israeli films.