Ilan Moshenson began his career as a film-maker in the field of television and film in 1970 as a dircetor in the Education Television. In this framework he wrote scripts to educational series such as "Homeland" and "meetings with Writers".
In 1978 he returned from London, after completing with distinction the study of film.
A script for a full-length film he wrote was accorded with a grant by the "Art and Culture Council". In 1979 he dirceted the film "The Gun". The plot takes place in Tel Aviv of the early 1950s. Two groups of youngsters compete for hegemony in the neighborhood. Violence is followed by more violence and culminates in a murderous battle, in the course of which the protagonist wounds the leader of the opponent group. Only an accidental encounter with a female Holocaust survivor who lives nearby makes him realize the negative consequences of violence and subsequently to feeling of remorse that signify adulthood.

In 1985 he directed another film, a wild comedy according to Eli Screiber script "Crazy Weekend".
A chain of absurd incidents involves religious and secular Israelis, loved and rejected characters, a stern hotel manager and his sloppy assistant, unsuccessful terrorists and a time bomb. This rythmic borlesque mocks in a poignant manner some of the phobias prevalent in Israeli society. Ilan Moshenson taught script-writing in the Film Department at 'Beit Zvi' art school in Ramat Gan. He also chaired the department for two years. He directed the directing and production program in the film and television department at the Tel Aviv University. Currently he teaches directing and script-writing in the Film and Television department in the Tel Aviv University and script-writing at the University of Haifa. A script dealing with the (future) fate of a fictional settlement on the Golan Heights on the eve of evacuation is currently considered for production by the Fund for Quality Films (January 1999).