Dror studied in the United States at UCLA and is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. His graduate film, Sentenced to Learn (1993), which tells the story of lifetime inmates in Illinois prisons, was screened in the Pompidou Center in Paris as part of an American Documentary retrospective.[1][2] In 2010, PBS aired a special series of his documentaries.[3][4] Dror's films are character-driven stories and deal with issues of identity, displacement and cross-cultural exchange.[5]