Danny Ben-Moshe

Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary filmmaker, author and former academic. He has produced and directed several documentary films.

Career

In 2001, Ben-Moshe received the Commonwealth Centenary Medal for his work in education and research on racism in Australia.

Ben-Moshe established Identity Films and Productions in Melbourne in 2006. His documentary The Buchenwald Ball that same year, followed Holocaust survivors in Australia commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of their liberation and was screened on SBS Television.

Documentary and Film

In 2014, Ben-Moshe and Dan Goldberg won the Walkley Documentary Award for Code of Silence, a documentary about child sexual abuse in Melbourne’s Orthodox Jewish community.

His 2010 film The End of the Rainbow was screened on ABC Television in Australia, and was about a week in the life of The Rainbow Hotel, an iconic live music venue in Melbourne, and how community spaces and cultural heritage are threatened by property development.

His 2011 documentary Carnaby Street Undressed was broadcast on the Yesterday Television channel in the UK, was named "Pick of the Week" in The Sunday Times & London’s Time Out awarded it 4 stars.

In 2012, Ben-Moshe co-produced, co-directed and was the lead catalyst in the documentary Rewriting History about the emergence of Double Genocide and the rewriting of the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania. It received critical acclaim from The Australian newspaper. It was initially screened on SBS Television in Australia.

In 2017, Ben-Moshe wrote, produced and directed the documentary Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Jews and India's Bollywood. In 2018, Ben-Moshe wrote and directed Outback Rabbis for SBS.

In 2019, Ben-Moshe produced and directed the virtual-reality documentary Walk With Me,which follows a Holocaust survivor retracing their wartime experiences and is on permanent exhibition at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.His later VR work has included testimonial films with survivors of the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

His 2020 work included producing Covisions: Young Global Voices in the Time of Corona, while Yom Kippur in Lockdown was broadcast by ABC.

Ben-Moshe produced and directed Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer in 2023.The following year, he wrote and directed the virtual-reality production Survived to Tell.

In 2026, he produced and directed Cancelled for News 24 in Australia.

Ben-Moshe’s films have been broadcast internationally on networks including BBC, ABC, YES, PBS and NHK. His films have also been screened at Tate Modern in London and the Knesset in Jerusalem.

In January 2026, HarperCollins Australia published his first novel, The Watchmaker’s War. The novel was inspired by the story explored in his 2023 documentary Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer.

Filmography

Released Films
Year Film Role Notes
2006 The Buchenwald Ball Co-director and Co-producer SBS Television
2010 The End of the Rainbow Writer, Director and Producer ABC Television
2011 Carnaby Street Undressed Writer, Co-director and Co-producer Yesterday
2012 Rewriting History Co-director, Co-producer, Key protagonist, Cast SBS Television
2014 Code of Silence — —
2017 Shalom Bollywood Writer, Director and Producer —
2017 My Mother’s Lost Children Writer and Director BBC Four
2018 Outback Rabbis Writer and Director SBS
2019 Walk With Me (VR) Producer and Director Melbourne Holocaust Museum
2019 China’s Artful Dissident — ABC
2020 Covisions: Young Global Voices in the Time of Corona Producer Doc Edge New Zealand
2020 Yom Kippur in Lockdown — ABC
2023 Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer Producer and Director ABC; BBC; NRK Norway; DR Denmark
2024 Survived to Tell (VR) Writer and Director IsraelIs NGO
2026 Cancelled Producer and Director News 24 (Australia)


Academia and Publications

Before becoming a full-time filmmaker, Ben-Moshe spent more than a decade as an academic at Deakin University and Victoria University in Melbourne. His research included cultural diversity, diaspora, antisemitism and Jewish identity. He is the co-author of the book Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity and his major study on comparative diasporas in Australia was launched at Parliament House in the Australian Capital in 2012.

Ben-Moshe has also written for newspapers and magazines including The Age, The Australian, The Canberra Times, and The Jerusalem Post. He is the co-author with Dovid Katz of The Seventy Years Declaration on the Final Solution Conference at Wannsee, He has also written on Holocaust denial and the Double Genocide theory in Lithuania and elsewhere.

Podcast

Ben-Moshe is also the producer and presenter of the Audible podcast series My Lost Family, which is based on his own family history. CrimeReads included the series in its selection of seven international true-crime podcasts.

Selected publications

Media articles

Publications

Book chapters

Books

Journal articles

Non-Academic Publications

References

  1. ↑ Faculty List, "Deakin University Faculty List", Deakin University
  2. ↑ "Australian Honours Search Facility". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "People". www.identity-films.com. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  4. ↑ Aedy, Brought to you byABC Radio NationalPresented byRichard (9 August 2006). "Buchenwald Ball". ABC listen. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  5. ↑ "Code of Silence". ABC Religion & Ethics. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  6. ↑ "The End of the Rainbow". www.identity-films.com. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  7. ↑ Carnaby Street Undressed, retrieved 8 October 2019
  8. ↑ "Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer". Claims Conference Film Grants. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  9. ↑ Blundell, Graeme (14 September 2012). "Lithuania's lies and deception exposed". The Australian. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012.
  10. ↑ Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema, retrieved 8 October 2019
  11. ↑ "Film Music". Adam Starr Music. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  12. ↑ Walden, Victoria Grace (26 September 2024). "Spotlight on Melbourne Holocaust Museum". Landecker Digital Memory Lab. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  13. ↑ "Virtual Reality". www.identity-films.com. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  14. ↑ "COVISIONS: YOUNG GLOBAL VOICES IN THE TIME OF CORONA". www.identity-films.com. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  15. ↑ "Keep calm and kosher: Melbourne Jews spending Yom Kippur in lockdown". ABC News. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  16. ↑ "Revenge: Our Dad The Nazi Killer". Screen Australia. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  17. ↑ "Survived To Tell". Israel-Is | ישראליז. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  18. ↑ "Danny Ben-Moshe". georginacapel.com. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  19. ↑ "The Watchmaker's War by Danny Ben-Moshe, Paperback, 9781460763612 | Buy online at The Nile". www.thenile.com.au. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  20. ↑ Ben-Moshe, Danny. "The Watchmaker's War". Cook and Young - Camberwell. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  21. ↑ University, Deakin. "Deakin academic's global campaign to stand up for a European academic and prevent Holocaust history being rewritten to feature in SBS documentary". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  22. ↑ "VU Institutional Repository". VU Institutional Repository | Victoria University | Melbourne Australia. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  23. 1 2 Danny Ben-Moshe; Zohar Segev (2007). Israel, the Diaspora, and Jewish Identity. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-84519-189-4. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  24. ↑ Ben-Moshe, Danny; Pyke, Joanne; Baldassar, L. (December 2012). "Diasporas in Australia: Current and potential links with the homeland". Citizenship and Globalisation Research Papers. 3 (4). ISSN 1838-2118.
  25. ↑ Roger Cohen, "The Suffering Olympics", The New York Times, 30 January 2012
  26. ↑ Danna Harman, "European leaders to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi Wannsee Conference", Haaretz, 19 January 2012
  27. ↑ Ben-Moshe, Danny (12 March 2012). "Saying no to 'double genocide'". The Jerusalem Post. ISSN 0792-822X. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  28. ↑ Ben-Moshe, Danny (2 November 2011). "Lithuania Assaults Holocaust Memory". The Jerusalem Post. ISSN 0792-822X. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  29. ↑ "My Lost Family – Danny Ben-Moshe". Compulsive Readers. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  30. ↑ French, Paul (7 November 2019). "7 International True Crime Podcasts You Should Be Listening To". CrimeReads. Retrieved 17 August 2026.