Lior Geller () is an Emmy Award nominated Israeli-American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, cinematographer, composer, and Guinness World Record holder, best known for writing, directing and producing the feature film The World Will Tremble which tells the true story of the first escape from the first Nazi death camp during World War II.
Lior Geller grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey and Ramat Gan, Israel. He studied film at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University.
Geller started his film career editing movie trailers and writing, directing and producing several short films, including the multiple award winning short film "Roads" which was nominated for a Student Academy Award and currently sets the Guinness World Record for Most Awards Won by a Short Student Film.
In 2008, Geller wrote and directed an Emmy nominated documentary which premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, won multiple awards, was sold to PBS in the United States where it played on its Wide Angle series in 2009, earning Geller an Emmy nomination.
Following the success of "Roads", Geller was brought to Hollywood where he sold his first feature screenplay "Alone in Damascus" to Eric EisnerâÂÂs Double E Pictures. After the sale of "Alone in Damascus", Geller went on to sell multiple screenplays as a screenwriter and direct several unscripted television series.
Geller's feature film debut, We Die Young, premiered at the 2019 Mammoth Film Festival on February 7, 2019, in Mammoth Lakes, CA as the festivalâÂÂs opening night gala film. Prior to the screening, the film was preemptively purchased by Lionsgate Films for distribution in the United States. Lionsgate released the film on March 1, 2019 to critical acclaim with particular praise for GellerâÂÂs direction and the performance of lead actor Jean-Claude Van Damme.
His second film, The World Will Tremble, had its world premiere at the Miami Jewish Film Festival in Miami, Florida, on 16 January 2025 and was released in US theaters March 14, 2025 by Vertical. The film holds a 93% rating on review aggregator website site Rotten Tomatoes, has been called "Astonishing... the first great film of 2025" by film critic Keith Arlington, and has become an international streaming sensation reaching the global Netflix top ten and securing the number one spot in multiple countries.
Since 2007 Geller has received numerous awards and nominations setting a Guinness World Record for Most Awards Won by a Short Student Film for "Roads".
Lior Geller has a catalogue of films and documentaries he produced, wrote and directed. The table below chronicles his filmography.