Yamin Messika (born February 24, 1957) is an Israeli director, screenwriter, photographer, editor and producer. Messika was born in the neighborhood of Katamon T in the south of Jerusalem and grew up in the city of Jerusalem to a struggling family with many children of eight brothers and sisters. In the 1970s he took part in the tent movement in Jerusalem. In 1972, he even participated in the play "Yosef Goes Down to Katmona" at the Ohel Yosef theater which operated in the Katmon 9 neighborhood. Messika continued to study fine art photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and in San Francisco he studied film and television.