2025-2026 – Visiting Professor in UC Berkeley, USA.
An independent director/producer/writer and a film scholar. Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sapir Academic College, Israel. Winner of the 2017, 34th Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem Prize, for a Jerusalem filmmaker. Preminger teaches Cinema Studies, Acting, and directing
workshops.
Filmography includes:
50 Broken Pieces (Producer & co-editor, 2022); Present Continuous (2012); One Eye Wide Open (2009); Moscobia (2001); Ransom of the Father (2000); Last Resort (1999); Learning and Teaching Mathematics (1998); On My Way to Father’s Land (1995); Blind Man's Bluff (1993); Front Window (1990).
Stage productions include:
“Silent”, (2019); “Chaplin on Stage”, (2016).
Books publications include:
Reflection on Cinema and Ethos: Israeli and Other Scenes, (2017). François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love – An Intertextual Approach, (2015); Enchanted Screen: A Chronology of Media & Language, (1995).
Additional publications include:
Teaching Film Directing – A practical methodology, in: Maria Dora Mourao, Stanislav Semerdjiev, Cecilia Mello, Alan Taylor (editors), The 21st Century Film, TV and Media School: Directing the Future, Volume 2, 2019.
Charles Chaplin sings a silent requiem: Chaplin's Films, 1928-1952, as Cinematic statement on the Transition from Silent Cinema to the Talkies, in: Howe Lawrence, Caron James E., and Click Benjamin, eds., Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon Through Critical Lenses, pp. 163-185, Lanham, MD, USA: Scarecrow Press, 2013.
