Bio
Yoni Golijov is a producer and socialist organizer. He is currently producer at Praxis Films, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras’s production company, and creative producer at Field of Vision. Most recently, he produced her art installation Signal Flow, composed of immersive video installation, graduate student film workshop, and investigative print journalism exploring the U.S. military’s presence in Sicily, Italy, which premiered at Manifesta biennial in the summer of 2018. Previously he produced her film Risk (2016), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and her short film Project X (2016), co-directed by award-winning journalist Henrik Moltke; cross-promoted by Mr. Robot and an official selection at Sundance Film Festival 2017. In his first collaboration with Poitras, he studio managed her solo exhibition Astro Noise at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the accompanying book Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance. He was 1st AD on Margo Neely's indie TV mini-series Ladies Revenge Club, and previously assistant directed two stage plays for award-winning director Nancy Curran Willis. He speaks Spanish and Mandarin.