# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amir-bar-lev
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:13:44.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amir-bar-lev"
name: "Amir Bar-Lev"
slug: "amir-bar-lev"
description: "Amir Bar-Lev is noted for his work in directing documentary films. His debut, Fighter (2000) (director), was named one of the top documentaries of the year by Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice. Fighter won six international festival awards and was called “brilliant,” by The New Yorker, “enthralling” by the New York Times, and “one of the best documentaries of this year or any other” by Rolling Stone."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amir_Bar-Lev_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_for_The_Last_First_-_Winter_K2_(01).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.43
  momentum:             6
  historical:           6.150793333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052737/"
    handle:    "nm0052737"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "امیر بار لیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%8A%DA%A4"
    title: "امير بار ليڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Bar-Lev"
    title: "Amir Bar-Lev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Bar-Lev"
    title: "Amir Bar-Lev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%91%D7%A8-%D7%9C%D7%91"
    title: "אמיר בר-לב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Bar-Lev"
    title: "Amir Bar-Lev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3614356"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91452"
    title: "Amir Bar-Lev"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump