Arad Sawat
Born (1975-01-23) 23 January 1975
Israel
OccupationProduction designer
Years active1996-present
Arad Sawat

Arad Sawat (born January 23, 1975), is an Israeli set and production designer for television and in the film industry. He has designed and created sets for many television drama series and feature films, as well as designing conceptual spaces for industrial complexes. Sawat received international acclaim for his artistic design in Oscar-nominated Footnote (2011), winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He is a three time Ophir Award winner for Best Artistic Direction.

Biography

Early life

He was born in Tzfat, Israel, to Jewish parents. In 1993 he enlisted in the IDF and served in the Intelligence Corps. On completion of his military service in 1996 he moved to Tel Aviv.

Career

In 1996 Sawat began work as a props man and stylist for television. In the late 90s he began working as a set designer in television productions, as well as designing sets for commercial advertising. In particular, he designed and created sets which were built outside the television studios.

Over the years he broadened the scope of his portfolio, and applied his professional expertise to include architectural and spatial design in commercial and industrial complexes.

In 2011, based on his experience in set, product and interior design, Sawat began working in feature film production design. On the same year, his first feature film credit as a production designer, Footnote, was released. For his work on the film, he was awarded the Israeli Film Academy Award for best production design. Following the film's great success, Sawat continued to work with leading directors.

In 2014, Sawat designed Natalie Portman's debut film as a director, A Tale of Love and Darkness, based on the autobiographical best seller by Amos Oz. The film premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Following his second visit to Cannes, Sawat drew the attention of international film industry professionals. In 2016 he was signed by the Dattner Dispoto and Associates talent agency, and has since begun to focus on international projects.

Today Sawat lives in Lisbon, Portugal and works in the US, Germany, Tel Aviv, Croatia, Bulgaria, Morocco, Singapore, India, and China.

He is in a relationship with film director and writer Maysaloun Hamoud and they have a daughter named Layla.

Design Projects

Cinema

Sawat on the Lanvin store set designed by him, during shooting of Norman
Sawat at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, with lead crew members of A Tale of Love and Darkness

Television series

Israel Sports News Studio designed by Sawat

Commercial Spaces

  • Studio for Fox Sports, Singapore. (2014)
  • Gallery Studio, Israel (2014)
  • STAR TV Studio, India (2013)
  • Israel Sports News Studio (2013)
  • Gindi Soferim Retail Arcade (2012)

Awards

  • Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Artistic Design in Foxtrot.
  • Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Artistic Design in Big Bad Wolves (the film won the Saturn Award for the best foreign film and best soundtrack 2013).
  • Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Artistic Design in Footnote (the film won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival – Prix du Scenario, and was nominated for an Oscar award).
  • Official website.
  • Arad Sawat at IMDb
  • Sawat, Arad (2018). "Conceptualizing the Production Design of Beirut". Bleecker Street. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  • Sawat, Arad (2017). "Production Design Case Studies: Arad Sawat on Designing Norman and A Tale of Love and Darkness". MovieMaker.
  • Sawat, Arad (2016). "A Tale of Love and Darkness". Perspective. Vol. 10, no. 2.

References

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