Dr. Pomerantz [SEP] director
Dr. Pomerantz
Dr. Pomerantz () is a 2011 Israeli film directed by and starring Assi Dayan. It premiered in 2011 at the 27th Haifa International Film Festival and was theatrically released in Israel in February 23, 2012. The film was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Ophir Awards in September 2012. The film became Dayan's final as a director as well as an actor, before his death in May 2014.
In the film, Dayan plays a clinical psychologist named Dr. Yoel Pomerantz. Pomerantz's life is one big
as a planetary scientist, identifying surface features on Mars.
Career.
After graduate school Pomerantz joined Futron, an aerospace consultancy that eventually became acquired by Avascent. In 2005 Pomerantz joined X Prize Foundation, acting as "Director of Space Prizes." He was promoted to Senior Director of Space Projects and helped to create both the Google Lunar X Prize and Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. In 2010 Pomerantz contributed a chapter to the textbook "Space Commerce". He joined Virgin Galactic in 2011 and was appointed Vice President