Amnon Buchbinder has directed two feature films, The Fishing Trip (1998) and Whole New Thing (2005), and numerous short films. He is an Associate Professor at York University, where he has been teaching screenwriting for the past ten years. He has a busy practice story-editing feature films, and has taught professional screenwriting workshops across Canada. He was previously a film programmer for the Toronto and Vancouver International Film Festivals. He received his BFA and MFA in Film from the California Institute of the Arts. He is the father of two sons and lives with his family in Toronto.