Amit Breuer is a Canadian-Israeli documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the founder of Amythos Media, formerly known as Amythos Films. Early life Amit Breuer was born in Israel and received her Bachelor of Arts in general history of art from the Tel-Aviv University in 1983. Following her graduation, Breuer studied cinematography at Beit Tzvi Institute of Cinema, Ramat Gan. Career Breuer founded Amythos Films, an Israeli independent documentary production company, in 1993. In 2004, she moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada and brought her company with her. The company was later renamed Amythos Media. Amythos Media has produced award-winning documentaries including Testimonies, St. Jean, On the Edge of Peace, The Guantanamo Trap, Sentenced to Marriage, Junction, Checkpoint, and Purity. In 2006, Breuer cofounded the Voices Forward Festival with Stacey Donen, which they aimed to build a bridge between Israeli and Palestinian communities. The festival featured movies, art exhibits, music performances, lectures and plays. Amit served as the artistic director until 2009. In 2006, Amit Breuer co-founded the DocAgora Association, an organization that hosts events and forums on the documentary film industry at festivals and markets worldwide. She also served as the association's president until 2009. Breuer produced Planet Sin, a series of short films centered around the seven deadly sins in 2011. The shorts were screened at Shorts Under the Stars in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Later that year, she co-produced Love Letters to the Future, a transmedia project designed to send messages about climate change to future generations. Selected projects Production filmography Exile: A Myth Unearthed (2012) The Guantanamo Trap (2011) Kurt Masur: Adventures in Listening (2008) Le Blues de l'Orient/Between Two Notes (2006) Mekudeshet/Sentenced to Marriage (2004) The Junction (Video Documentary) (2003) Checkpoint (2003) Tehora/Purity: Breaking the Codes of Silence (2002) Human Weapon (2002) Sumud (2001) The Specialist (1999) King David Hotel, Jerusalem (1998) Baba Luba (1996) All Hell Broke Loose (1995) Mendelssohn Returns to Leipzig (1994) On the Edge of Peace (1994) Itgabar/He Will Overcome (1993) St. Jean (Documentary) (1993) Testimonies (1993) The Unpromised Land (1992) Direction filmography Kurt Masur: Adventures in Listening (2008) Introitus short (2006) Director Television and transmedia My September 11 (2011) Producer Seven Sins/Planet Sin (2011) Producer Love Letters to the Future (2009) Producer, Co-Creator Awards In 1993, St. Jean won Best Documentary for the Wolgin Award for Israeli Cinema, Jerusalem film Festival and the Israel Academy Awards. Human Weapon was featured in the