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Quick facts for kids Dana Goldberg
דנה גולדברג
Born	(1979-03-01) March 1, 1979 (age 45) Herzliya, Israel
Occupation	Film director poet playwright
Years active	2003–present

Dana Goldberg (Hebrew: דנה גולדברג; born March 1, 1979) is an Israeli poet, filmmaker and playwright.

Biography

Goldberg was born in Herzliya. Her father was a pilot and her mother worked at a bank. As a child, she studied many different creative fields: photography, music, plastic art, and writing. After high school, she studied at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts and at Beit Berl College, while also beginning her path as a poet. Her work was published in literary journals, first in HaMe'orer and then others, including Iton 77, Helicon, and Shebo, and she was on the editorial board of the online poetry journal Anonymous Fish?. Her first collection, Orange Coral, was published in 2011.

Beginning in 2003, Goldberg created a series of short films, including Alligator (2009), for which she won the Emerging Director award at the International Women's Film Festival In Rehovot. In 2005, she was invited to take part in the Young Talent Campus of the Berlin Film Festival. In 2012, her first full-length feature film came out, Alice, about a woman who works the night shift in a residential rehabilitation school, and spends her days sleeping. The film won three awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival, a special mention at the Rehovot International Women's Film Festival, and was selected to open the Berlin Israel Film Festival in 2014. In 2018, the film Death of a Poetess came out, which she directed and wrote together with Efrat Mishori. .....

In 2016, Goldberg and Mishori founded Kinoclan, a non-profit organization that works to promote the creation and distribution of literary and film works that give voice to women's worlds, told from women's perspectives.

..... She also wrote Esti of the Pines, which was staged at the Theatronetto festival in 2014.

In 2023, her film Debbie Was Here won the Artistic Achievement in a Feature Film award at the Haifa International Film Festival. In October 2024, she won the Haifa Culture Fund Opus grant in the Haifa International Film Festival pitch competition for her film in development, The Left Heart.

Awards

Filmography

Poetry

• אלמוגים כתומים (Orange Corals), Keshev LeShira, 2011
• שמש ישירה (Direct Sun), Locus, 2020

Plays

• 2014: אסתי של האורנים (Esti of the Pine Trees)

See also

• List of female film and television directors
• List of lesbian filmmakers
• List of LGBT-related films directed by women