Pablo Utin was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1976, and immigrated to Israel in 1996. Utin is the author of the books “The New Israeli Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers” (2008); “Lessons in Cinema: The New Israeli Cinema 2009 – 2015” (2016); “A Requiem for Peace: The Israeli-Palestinan conflict in Israeli Cinema after the Al-Aqsa Intifada” (2017); and “From Charly to Shuli: Popular cinema and the invention of Israeli Identity” (2024).
Utin teaches at the Steve Tisch school of film and TV at Tel-Aviv University, Beit Berl School of Arts and Shenkar College. He is also a film critic for Haaretz newspaper and the co-chairperson of the Israeli Film Critics Association.