Amit Epstein was born in Tel Aviv. He studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, where he won the Bezal’el Prize for Excellence and the Meisler Prize for Design. He then attended Vivienne Westwood’s Haute Couture class at the UdK in Berlin. Since 2007, Amit Epstein has worked with Israeli director Yael Ronen. He has also worked as a costume designer and dramaturge at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the Contemporary Theater in Wroclaw, the Schaubühne Berlin, and the Theater der Welt Festival in Halle, among others. As a director, Amit Epstein realized staged videos, which were shown in several galleries and international film festivals, e.g. at the Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, in the German Short Film Selection of the German Short Film Association, in the InterFilm Festival in Berlin and in the Jewish Film Festival Berlin and Potsdam.