Niv fichman biography
Niv Fichman (Hebrew: ניב פיכמן; born ) is an.!
A friendship spanning four decades between Niv Fichman, the Toronto-based producer and Rhombus Media co-founder, and Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan comes full circle with the TIFF world premiere of Seven Veils.
Fichman was a film student at Toronto’s York University when he first encountered Egoyan in 1979, but the two had never worked together on a feature until now.
Niv Fichman was born in in Tel Aviv, Israel.
“I attended a screening of his short film After Grad With Dad at the University of Toronto,” recalls Fichman. “We’ve had a long, long friendship.”
That same year Fichman and fellow undergraduate Barbara Willis Sweete launched Fichman-Sweete Productions.
They swiftly changed the name to Rhombus Media, partnered with producer Larry Weinstein, and dived into music documentaries and arts films. They parted ways when Fichman moved into broader features, although the three remain firm friends.
For the first couple of decades, Rhombus — now in its 45th year — co-produced with partners such as PBS, BBC, Canadian B
