I am a documentary filmmaker from Jerusalem, currently based in Haifa, Israel.  I work as a director, producer, editor, researcher, and a teacher.

Growing up, my mother, a painter, used to ask: What do you see? It was her way to encourage me to be attentive to my sensory experience, to recognize the emotion it engenders, and to look at the universe with honesty and wonder.

Storytelling is my passion. Stories are the tool I use to navigate and interpret the world around me. The documentary medium enables me to own my subjective voice and to linger, to expand and to magnify my gaze. I wish to create films that awaken the consciousness of my audience, and direct their gaze, compassionate and critical at once, towards society; giving new insights about life and cinema. My parents immigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. Thus, being my family’s first-generation Israeli, informs the topics that animate my work: identity, home, community, language, intimacy, and the dynamics stimulating them.

I hold an MFA degree from The Experimental and Documentary Arts Program at Duke University and a BFA degree from The School of Audio & Visual Arts at Sapir College. I am a graduate of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and hold a certificate in Phototherapy from Haifa University.