Micha X. Peled

Micha Peled is one of the few people who has arrived in the United States by hitchhiking. He has worked as an importer of hammocks and sheepskin jackets, a tutor, a prison guard, a freelance journalist, a Nuclear Freeze staffer and the manager of a winning political campaign. Micha has guided adventure trips into the jungles of Thailand and Brazil, and published a slim volume of fiction, The Fisherman and the Nymph.

In 1992 Micha made his first film.  Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin?, was made for German tv, shown at the Berlin film festival and won awards on both sides of the Atlantic.  Micha left his job as director of Media Alliance, a media watchdog group, to become a full-time filmmaker, and never looked back. His second documentary, Inside God's Bunker, aired on television in 15 countries in Europe, the U.S., Australia and Japan.

Micha Peled believes globalization is the main theme of our times, and he is currently working on the third in a trilogy on this topic.  The first, Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town, was awarded the Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival.  The second, China Blue, premiered at the Toronto Int’l Film Festival, won the Amnesty Human rights award at IDFA and the PBS/Independent Lens Audience Award.  It has been released in theaters in the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand and DVDs were released also in German, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, and Danish.

Micha’s films won two Hugo awards and two Cine Golden Eagle awards.  All have aired on PBS, the so-called public broadcasting system in the U.S.  They have been exhibited in numerous film festivals around the world, including Rotterdam, Marseilles, Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, San Paolo, Hong Kong, Manila, Vancouver, Hawaii, and numerous human rights and environmental film festival in New York.

 
Micha has recently completed his first fiction short, "Delinquent," to be released in 2008.