Elad Shalev graduated from the School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. He is a film critic and has been the editor of Israel's largest cinema website – Seret – since 2014. He hosts cinema segments on a variety of TV and radio programs, gives lectures on cinema, and works as a lector at the LGBT Festival – TLVfest. He also works as a home page manager on the large news website Mako, which is owned by the channel Keshet 12.