Amit Russell Gicelter is an Academy Award® nominated producer, founder and CEO of The Hive Studio, as well as an accomplished content creator.
Since its founding in 2010 in Israel, The Hive studio has grown into a leading animation hub, employing over 40 animators across four different locations, in Israel and Greece. With 20 years of industry experience, Amit has produced multiple award-winning short films, including the Oscar®-nominated Letter to a Pig and the shortlisted Black Slide. His work also includes television series for major broadcasters and high-end commercial content, utilizing a wide range of animation and live-action techniques.
Amit Gicelter has orchestrated numerous global co-productions, including pioneering collaborations with countries such as Greece, the UAE, and Canada, marking significant firsts in those partnerships.
The Hive - Visual Effects and Animation Studio
The Hive Studio is an award-winning animation studio, that develops and produces animated films, episodic programming, and commercials. The studio, opened in 2010, is home for 40 local talented artists, with offices in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Sderot. Led by founder Amit Russell Gicelter, an Oscar® nominated creative producer with 20 years of experience in the animation industry, The Hive Studio offers a unique blend of great creative talent, production expertise, and technical mastery.
Our films have been nominated and shortlisted for the Oscars®, and have won countless awards worldwide. Our series have been broadcast on television channels globally. We have gained much experience in co-production workflows, and have worked with partners from all over around the world, including the first ever Israeli-Greek coproduction.
Summer is a UCLA alumnus who also completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in Producing at the American Film Institute Conservatory with a scholarship from the Alfred Sloan Foundation. She is also a guest lecturer on Introduction to Producing at Sophia University in California.
Summer has had multiple works released on Amazon Prime. She has served as a consultant for the Amazon Studios original series Bosch and the Disney+ original series American Born Chinese, and has worked in feature development at Blumhouse Productions. Summer has produced numerous American Advertising Awards and Telly Award-winning commercial projects with companies such as Intel, Tencent, Baidu, Youku, VIVO, OPPO, Mercedes, and more.
Summer has produced over twenty narrative shorts, over thirty branded videos, two narrative feature films, and one documentary feature film. She also has three documentary features in production and three feature films in development. The documentary series NCT 127: The Lost Boys was produced by and released on Disney+.
Her documentary feature, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, was sponsored and executive produced by Abigal Disney and Tim Disney and premiered at Sundance, Berlin Film Festival, and IDFA in 2022, with worldwide distribution. In early 2022, Summer produced Jacob The Baker, released on Amazon Prime and presented by the Academy Award-winning production company Indian Paintbrush and produced by Pulitzer Award nominee Noah benShea, along with Oscar-winning producers Steven Rales and Mark Johnson.