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GUY NATTIV is best known for directing, co-writing, and producing SKIN, for which he won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Guy went on to write and direct the feature version, also titled SKIN, which starred Jamie Bell and won the Fipresci Critic’s Prize at the Toronto Film Festival in 2019. The film was acquired by A24. Most recently, Guy co-directed and co-wrote TATAMI, a historic collaboration between Israeli and Iranian filmmakers, which had its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 to significant acclaim. The film won two prizes at the Tokyo Film Festival, Best Film at the Munich Festival, and two prizes at Camerimage in Poland. In 2022, Guy directed Helen Mirren in the film GOLDA, premiering at the Berlin Film Festival and earning an Oscar Nomination. Guy recently wrapped production on his next feature, HARMONIA, based on the true story of his grandmother’s involvement with an all-women’s cult. It stars Carrie Coon, Bella Ramsey, Lily James, and Tracey Letts, and will be released by Bleecker Street in 2026. Guy lives in Los Angeles, where he runs New Native Pictures with his wife and producing partner, Jaime Ray Newman.

JAIME RAY NEWMAN is an accomplished actress and Academy Award-winning producer. She currently stars as Callie Baskin on the breakout Netflix hit THE HUNTING WIVES, and will recur on the limited series UNSPEAKABLE: THE MURDER OF JONBENET RAMSEY opposite Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen. Newman played Kathe Sackler in the critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning Hulu series DOPESICK opposite Michael Keaton, and the Apple TV series created by Don Cheadle, THE BIG CIGAR. She has been a series regular on a slew of shows, including THE PUNISHER for Netflix and EASTWICK on ABC, and has recurred on dozens of series, including LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE opposite Reese Witherspoon. As a producer, Jaime won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short for SKIN alongside her partner, Guy Nattiv. The feature version, also titled SKIN, starred Jamie Bell and won the Fipresci Prize at the Toronto Film Festival in 2019, where it was acquired by A24. She produced and starred in the film TATAMI, which was in competition at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. Her latest film, HARMONIA, will be released in 2026 and stars Carrie Coon, Bella Ramsey, and Lily James.