Career

Bar-Lev is noted for his work in directing documentary films. He has directed such films as Fighter, a documentary film released August 24, 2001. The film received a Special Jury Citation in the 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

The 2007 documentary film My Kid Could Paint That was directed by Bar-Lev, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film was bought by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007. He also served as co-producer of the 2009 Oscar nominated documentary Trouble the Water.

Bar-Lev also directed The Tillman Story, which premiered as a Domestic Documentary Finalist at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Bar-Lev is currently directing Happy Valley, a film about the Penn State Jerry Sandusky Scandal.

Bar-Lev has taught documentary filmmaking at New York University.

According to IMDB Bar-Lev has directed or produced the following works:

Happy Valley (2014) (director)

The Tillman Story (2010) (director)

Trouble the Water (2008) (co-producer)

My Kid Could Paint That (2007) (director)

lieutenant Could Happen Tomorrow (2006) television series (producer) (unknown episodes)

Katrina (2006) (television) (producer)

Sundance Film Festival Dailies (2003) television series (segment producer)

Video Hits One: All Access (2003) television series (producer) (unknown episodes)

Fighter (2000) (director)

Yet-to-be-named 50th Anniversary documentary about the Grateful Dead produced by Martin Scorsese (2015).