About

Omer Ben-Shachar is a writer/director based in Los Angeles, most recently named a 2026 Young Guns winner by The One Club for Creativity. He is a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Directing Program, where he received the Richard P. Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award. He has been a fellow of Film Independent’s Project Involve and Screenwriting Lab, the Warner Bros. Television Directors Workshop, and Paramount’s Directing Program.

Omer’s debut short film, Tree #3, won a Student Academy Award, Urbanworld’s Best Young Creator Award, Palm Springs’ Audience Award, and was nominated for a Student Emmy. His follow-up short, Single Residence Occupancy, won the Academy Award-Qualifying Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the Atlanta Film Festival and was named the first-place winner of Imagine Entertainment, Adobe and The Film Zone’s From Minutes to Movies ShortFest. His latest film, Houston, We Have a Crush, is currently on the festival circuit, with wins at Leeds and Guadalajara, and selections at SXSW Sydney, Palm Springs, Urbanworld, NewFest, and Austin, among others.

Omer has directed music videos and commercials featured in Rolling Stone, Billboard, Nowness, Short of the Week, Directors’ Library and at the Hammer Museum’s Flux Series. His work has earned multiple Vimeo Staff Picks, a Webby Award, and a Cannes Lions Young Directors Award nomination. His commerical clients include Microsoft, Rakuten Viki, Honkai: Star Rail, Bayer, and more. Omer is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences as well as a BAFTA Connect Member.