Shay Kanot

Shay Kanot (Hebrew: שי כנות ) is an American film and television screenwriter and director.

He is known for his creating and directing the four season crime series The Arbitrator (Ha-borer) starring Yehuda Levi and Ania Bukstein. Shay Kanot also directed Gal Gadot in her only Israeli movie The Goal (Kicking out Shoshana) sold to Apple TV+ . The drama series Shay Kanot directed Pushers (Beni-or) was nominated for best-series in TV Series Festival Berlin. He directed the series Three (Thalathe) which was nominated for best-series TV at the Festival De Cannes.

Kanot works both in television and film. Among his most prominent and well-known works are Colombian Love (2004), starring Mili Avital and Asi Cohen; Kicking Out Shoshana (2014); Ibiza (2015), starring Dvir Benedek; Four by Four (2016), starring Oshri Cohen and Shlomi Koriat.

In television Kanot worked on The Arbitrator (2007-2014), written by Reshef Levi. Kanot wrote the script for the Israeli show Shabatot Vehagim (2004) along with Eran Kolirin. Kanot directed Meorav Yerushalmi (2007), starring Shmil Ben Ari; Pushers (Bnei Or) (2022); Double (Kefula) (2015-2019), starring Noa Kirel.