Directing
July 8, 1971
54 years old
Israel
Assaf Bernstein graduated cum laude from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His award-winning credits include show-running and directing the groundbreaking first season of Netflix's "Fauda," which was voted one of the top ten best international TV shows of the decade by The New York Times. He also executive produced and directed the pilot episode for HBO/Cinemax's "Warrior," which was listed as one of the top twenty American series of 2019 by Rolling Stone Magazine and spent three weeks on Netflix's top ten list in 2024.
On the feature side, Assaf has written and directed the acclaimed film "The Debt," whose remake starring Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain grossed over $100 million. In 2023, his film "Look Away," starring Jason Isaacs and India Eisley, which he also wrote and directed, hit the #5 spot on Netflix's top ten list of most-watched films in the U.S.
Currently, he is directing and executive producing "The Kollective" for Hulu, a new geopolitical thriller about journalism in the post-truth world from the creators of "Gomorrah" and "ZeroZeroZero."