Roni Kovan | The Art of Interviewing and Conversation

Roni Kuban—Uvda, Yotzim Min Haklal, Pגישה—who has won the Israeli Academy of Film and Television Award consecutively for years (Kan 11), is one of Israel’s leading documentary filmmakers and interviewers. A prominent journalist known for the attentiveness and honesty of his interviews, he succeeds in creating intimacy and authenticity with a wide range of interviewees.

Behind him, and among his plans, are interviews with key figures in Israeli culture, economy, and politics—interviews that touch viewers’ hearts. In this lecture, accompanied by clips from interviews he conducted with some of the country’s most interesting people—interviews that succeeded as well as those that went awry—Kuban explains how to talk to people, not only on television but also in life.

How do you create intimacy? What is the recipe for a fascinating conversation? And how do you overcome embarrassment and start asking the difficult questions?

Photo: Avishag Shaar-Yashuv