David Szerman is a film director living in Jerusalem, born in Paris in a family of Holocaust survivors, and the son of French author Francine Wajsbrot.

After studying cinema and audiovisual techniques at ESRA (Higher School of Audiovisual Production) in Paris, he served as a director for the French Navy. Then he produced clips, advertisements and film trailers. David also wrote TV scenarios, (including a police series taking place in Jerusalem) and a documentary series on the Wars of Israel ...

In 1994, David Szerman settled in Israel. There he met Hayim Azses, who was the head of the production department at the Jewish Agency in Israel. This was the beginning of a lasting friendship between the two men. David made many documentaries, educational films and short films for Hayim Azses, including If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem (distributed in more than 12 countries) and The Confrontation - a short film on Herzl - broadcast twice on French TV.

In 1998, David Szerman co-realized Jerusalem Did Not Forget Me! for Keren Or Le Tsahal, which was screened at the Paris Convention Center.

In 2000, David joined Hayim Azses at the Sephardic Education Center of Jerusalem. He wrote and produced fiction films The Departure - about the Alya of Rabbi Yehouda Halevy, and also The Other Exodus - on the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, which was screened in several festivals and on France 2 TV.

In addition, David has run the Szerman Films production house since 1995. Among other films, he made major documentaries Qumran: In Search of the Wadi Hakipah Treasury, about the search for the Treasury of the Temple in Qumran; The Kaifeng Art, about Jews and art in Kaifeng; The Rivkah Project, about the scandal of feet amputations in Israel. 

David also directed dozens of institutional films for the Jewish Agency, the municipality of Jerusalem, the Temple Institute, "Christians for Israel", the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Alyn Hospital of Jerusalem, the Hazon Yeshaya soup kitchen network. These are just a few examples of very different topics Szerman films has been dealing with.

From 2004 on, David Szerman filmed, edited and produced documentaries for Josy Eiseinberg and his France 2 TV show "La Source de Vie". He directed The Lost Souls of Sinai; In the Name of the Father; a short series on conversions in Israel. With Rabbi Marc Kujawski, he also directed The Hebrews of the End of Times and The Hebrews of Messianic times, two films about the "Bnei Menashe" and the Jews of India, who claim to descend from one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel - namely the Menashe tribe.

In 2010 David Szerman filmed and investigated the "lost biblical tribe" of Dan in Ivory Coast; the Dan tribe is currently located in the region of 18 mountains. This film had a large audience and was aired on France 2 TV. The impact of the film was huge in the social media. The film was also screened in festivals.

In 2015 David Szerman made an exceptional documentary on the Yamam (the anti-terrorist commando unit of the Israeli police) and Yamam hero Pascal Abrahami, who was the oldest Israeli fighter in service, decorated many times and killed in action in 2011. For this film, ancient and current commanders and combatants of this secret unit agreed to speak for the first time - with masked faces - in front of a camera.

In 2016-17 David Szerman produced a documentary series on Life After Death in Judaism, for France 2 TV.

Since 2018 Szerman Films has produced a Web Weekly series: Meeting the Tanah', which brings together philosophers and journalists, to discuss the Book of Prophets.

During the COVID years, David Szerman dedicated himself to creating the documentary series TSION'S WAR, which recounts the battles of the 55th Paratrooper Battalion and the liberation of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. 

Since its inception, Szerman Films has also worked with music and musicians, filming concerts, rehearsals or choirs, and making clips and vlogs for customers.

In addition, David Szerman launched several "cine-clubs" in France and Israel. He managed and animated the "Cine-Club" of the Jerusalem "Alliance Française" for four years. 

David was also a film critic for the newspaper Le Chroniqueur. 

Currently, David Szerman is working on a scenario dealing with Jews in the French Resistance - and in particular his grandfather Raymond Wajsbrot - a hero of the "Resistance" and the "Maquis".

David Szerman also works on a comedy taking place in Africa, Israel and France, dealing with the Temple of Jerusalem.