Dror Soref is an award -winning filmmaker who started his career directing music videos for "Weird Al" Yankovic, which helped establish the rock parodist as a star. Following his success in music videos, Soref directed Platinum Blonde, an inspirational short, which drew the attention of Paramount Studio's President. As a result, Soref was retained under contract to develop projects at Paramount Studios for him to write and direct. With the help of the Studio, The Seventh Coin became Soref's debut as a feature film writer/director. The Seventh Coin, starring Peter O'Toole, won two festival award s, including Best Picture. While at Paramount, Soref founded Orbit Productions, serving as one of its commercial directors. As Orbit's CEO, Soref ran one of Hollywood's most successful commercial production companies at the time. The directorial roster at Orbit included, in addition to Soref, such acclaimed directors as Wim Wenders, Carroll Ballard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Bruce Beresford. Soref later parlayed a successful career in commercials into feature films, signing a multiple-picture deal with Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures, with one film for Soref himself to direct. The first motion picture under this deal was Basic, starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, released by Columbia Pictures. Soref wrote, directed, and produced the critically acclaimed thriller Not Forgotten, starring Simon Baker, Paz Vega, Chloe Moretz, and Claire Forlani. The film was selected for a special screening at the Slamdance Film Festival, and was accorded rave reviews by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. Not Forgotten was released theatrically by Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment, to critical acclaim and sold-out showings. The film was later nominated for a Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2010). One of the distributors who initially pursued Not Forgotten was Paramount. As a result, Soref was invited back to the studio lot. His company, Skyline Pictures, is currently based there. Soref received a BA in Economics from the University of Haifa, Israel, graduating with Honors. Soref studied Film Production and Theory at San Francisco State University; Filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute; and the MFA Production Program of Cinema Arts at the University of Southern California (USC).
Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter. It is a tale taut with intrigue and steeped in Latino mysticism, where the line between what's real and what's imagined becomes hopelessly blurred.