Yoni Golijov is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose focuses include collective organizing, labor, journalism, verité, and community screenings.

Most recently, Golijov produced Who Moves America (True/False, 2026, dir. Yael Bridge) about UPS, teamsters and inter-generational solidarity, and Cover-Up (Venice, 2025, dir. Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus) about the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

He produced All The Beauty and the Bloodshed (Venice, 2022, dir. Laura Poitras) about legendary artist and activist Nan Goldin. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, only the second time in the festival's history that a nonfiction film took home the top prize.

Golijov co-directed/produced the award-winning short film When We Fight (2022) with collaborator Yael Bridge, and he co-directed/produced a follow-up film We Build Power with Arlene Inouye and Working Films. He served as an associate producer on Relative (2022, dir. Tracey Smith), produced Laura Poitras's first European gallery show, Circles (nbk Gallery, 2021) and her collaborations with Forensic Architecture: Terror Contagion (Cannes, 2021) and Triple-Chaser (Whitney Biennial, 2019), her immersive video installation and film clinic Signal Flow (Manifesta, 2018) her short film collaboration with Henrik Moltke Project X (Sundance, 2016) and her feature film Risk (Cannes, 2016).

In his first collaboration with Poitras, he served as studio manager for her solo exhibition Astro Noise at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the accompanying book Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance.

Previously Golijov worked as Consulting Producer at Field of Vision where he worked across shorts, series and features including the Academy Award-nominated In the Absence (dir. Yi Seung-Jun, prod. Gary Byung-Seok Kam), and coordinated the Field of Vision Fellows retreat.

He has received fellowships from the Sundance Documentary Film Program, Impact Partners, and NBC Original Voices, and has been nominated for a BAFTA, Emmy, PGA and Gotham Award and has won an Independent Spirit Award and Peabody Award. His work has screened at Venice, Telluride, Cannes, NYFF, TIFF, True/False and the Nordic Labour Film Festival, and has been acquired by Netflix, HBO, Showtime, and NEON.

A photograph of Yoni Golijov, he is a smiling white man with a shaved head and beard, wearing a grey shirt over a t-shirt, smiling outdoors with a blurred cityscape and blue sky in the background.

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Yellow poster for the film 'Who Moves America' with a collage of small cardboard boxes arranged in an abstract shape, and logos of film festivals and production companies at the bottom.
Movie poster for 'Cover-Up' featuring a black and white photo of journalist Seymour Hersh, a white man with glasses, sitting with legs up, talking on the phone. The poster includes quotes praising the film and lists the director and awards.
Film poster for 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' showing Nan Goldin in silhoutte, back turned, smoking a cigarette by a window.
Film poster for 'Project X' featuring a nighttime view of a tall windowless building in the brutalist architecture style, against a dark blue sky, with film festival awards and billing block.
Film Poster for 'When We Fight', featuring the tagline 'Inside the 2019 LA Teachers Strike' and a collage of teachers and students holding megaphones and organizing.
A 3D rendering of a pile of black and white tear gas canisters on a surface with red and white painted patterns.
Film poster for 'Risk' directed by Laura Poitras, featuring a silhoutte of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in bold red and black colors, with the title 'RISK' in large silver letters.
Person holding tear gas canisters labeled 'TRIPLE-CHASER' highlighted in pink and outlined in a yellow box.
Film poster for the anthology 'The Year of the Everlasting Storm' featuring a dark sky with a purple lightning bolt. The top right has a festival logo and text indicating special screening at Cannes.
Film poster for 'Terror Contagion' directed by Laura Poitras in collaboration with Forensic Architecture, featuring a digital graphical background of neon-colored dots and lines representing a digital or data network.
Installation view of exhibition SIGNAL FLOW, a photo through a doorway showing a film projection of satellite dishes.
A message from Mr. Robot about the film Project X. A nighttime cityscape with a building displaying the Special Source Operations emblem and the Empire State Building with its illuminated spire in the background.
Poster for the documentary film 'Relative' by Tracey Smith featuring images from home film footage of family members.
Book cover for 'Astro Noise: A Survival Guide,' the catalog for Laura Poitras's exhibition, featuring a black and white image of a distorted, static-filled background and top secret notation at the top, and a waveform graph at the bottom.
Installation view of PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION. Two people are standing in the back, various art is displayed on TV screens and mounted on walls.
A 3D render of triple-chaser tear gas canisters rendered in bright colored silhoutters scattered on a dirt ground.
Two people sitting and looking at film projections displaying a rocket launch on one and a lush green landscape with trees on the other. SIGNAL FLOW.
Poster for an exhibition titled "Parallel Construction" scheduled for September 11, 2021. It features names of artists and times for various activities including walking tours, conversations, and film screenings.
Nighttime scene of Trevor Paglen's 'Codenames of the Surveillance State' projected on city buildings with two beams of blue light in the sky.
'Parallel Construction' view of screening. Dark room with silhouettes of people watching a movie.
Installation view of the exhibition 'ASTRO NOISE' by Laura Poitras. To the left, there is a screen displaying a film with a woman looking into the distance.
People lying on a black platform in a dark room with a galaxy and starry sky projected on the ceiling. ASTRO NOISE exhibition view.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Laura Poitras, Circles' featuring aluminum prints of abstract colorful signals.
Two people sitting on a bench in a dark room watching a video of a mass burial site on a large projection. CIRCLES exhibition view.
A poster for an event titled 'Labor Films for Labor Organizers,' happening. The poster features an image of teachers picketing in the rain.
A poster for an event with workshops and films, over an image of teachers picketing in the rain.
Black and white architectural model of a brutalist building with stairs leading up to the entrance, surrounded by small trees and parked cars on the street.
Night cityscape of illuminated skyscrapers and high-rise buildings in a downtown area.
A UPS driver working a delivery truck, handling a boxed item. The truck is parked outdoors under a clear sky with some clouds visible.
A group of UPS workers in uniform inside a warehouse, standing in a row and looking up into the distance.