Nadav Kurtz was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv, Israel and lived in England and Switzerland before moving to the United States at the age of nine. He began his career as an award-winning commercial and film editor. Most recently, he co-edited Bolden, a not yet released feature film shot by Vilmos Zsigmund and with music arrangements by Wynton Marsalis. Street Thief, a feature film he edited and co-produced, premiered at the Tribeca International Film Festival and won Best of Chicago at the Chicago International Film Festival. This is his first short documentary.