Abbey Jack Neidik (born 1947) is a Canadian film director, producer, writer and cinematographer.
Early life.
Abbey Jack Neidik was born in 1947 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, son of Sarah (Rishikof) and Ben Neidik. He attended Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal.
Career.
In 1980, Neidik co-produced and directed "Dark Lullabies" about the effects of the Holocaust on the next generations of Jews and Germans. "Dark Lullabies" was the inaugural film at the Stratford Festival Forum, screened at the Berlin Arsenal 70th anniversary of The Holocaust, the Inconvenient Films: International Human Rights Festival.
Neidik next directed "Between The Solitudes/Entre Solitudes", about the Anglo community in Quebec., followed by "The Love Prophet and the Children of God", a look at a controversial religious cult. "A Song for Tibet" about Tibetans in exile; "The Cola Conquest", produced by Neidik, is a three-part series about Coca-Cola as a metaphor for American influence worldwide. Neidik co-produced and directed "The Journey Home: A Romanian Adoption",  a film about Romanian orphans a decade after the fall of Ceausescu. He co-produced and co-directed "She Got Game", a behind-the-scenes look at women’s tennis; "Vendetta Song", which examines the tradition of honour killings in rural Kurdish tribes in Turkey; co-produced and directed "Unbreakable Minds", which aims to de-stigmatize mental illness; co-produced and co-directed "Inside the Great Magazines", a three-part series about the inner workings of the magazine industry; and co-produced and directed "Canadaville, USA", about billionaire Frank Stronach's social experiment in rural Louisiana.
In 2013, Neidik co-produced and directed "Beyond Earth: the Beginning of NewSpace"; "Shekinah: the Intimate Lives of Hasidic Women"; in 2015 "Big Wind", about the effects of industrial wind turbines; and, in 2018, the sequel "Shekinah Rising".
Most recently, Neidik co-directed, wrote and produced "", a documentary about former Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Canada and international human rights lawyer, Irwin Cotler and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. The film premiered on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2022 at the Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, Quebec. The film was screened for the U.S. Congress on the occasion of Cotler receiving the Lantos Human Rights Award. 
Books.
Neidik was co-editor in the publication of "The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-Torn Europe".