Netalie Braun facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Netalie Braun נטעלי בראון
Born	(1978-06-12) June 12, 1978 (age 47)
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation	Filmmaker, poet

Netalie Braun (born June 12, 1978) is an Israeli poet, writer, and filmmaker. She creates movies and writes poems. In 2017, she won an important prize called the Ophir Award for her short documentary film.

Netalie Braun's Career

Netalie Braun studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She also earned a master's degree in film from the same university. She even took a special course to learn more about writing poetry.

Her Films

Netalie Braun makes different kinds of films. Some are documentaries, which tell true stories. Others are fiction films, which tell made-up stories.

Her early short fiction films, Tabur (2004) and The Last Supper of N. Braun (2005), were shown at film festivals in Israel and around the world.

Her documentary film Metamorphosis (2005) was shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival. It also traveled to many international film festivals. This film was even broadcast on Israel's Channel One TV. It won the 2006 Aliza Shagrir Award for best documentary.

In 2008, Netalie Braun's short film Gevald was shown for the first time internationally at the Berlin International Film Festival. It won first place at the Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival and the Paris Queer Film Festival. It also won an award from the Goethe-Institut for films about human rights.

Netalie Braun also co-directed a documentary film called Hatalyan (The Hangman) with Avigail Sperber. This film is about a person named Shalom Nagar. Hatalyan was shown on YES TV and won first place at the Haifa International Film Festival in 2010. It was also a finalist at the IDFA and won the best documentary award in 2011.

Her short film Vow (2014) won several awards. It received the short independent film award at the Jerusalem Film Festival. It also won the best directing award at the Student Film Festival in 2015. In the same year, it won first prize at the Seoul International Women's Film Festival.

Netalie Braun's documentary film Hope I'm in the Frame (2017) is about the director and actor Michal Bat-Adam. This film received a special mention at the Docaviv film festival. It also won the important Ophir Award for best short documentary.

From 2011 to 2013, Netalie Braun was the art director for the International Women's Film Festival In Rehovot. This means she helped plan and organize the artistic parts of the festival.

In 2018, Netalie Braun was chosen for a special program for documentary filmmakers. This program helps filmmakers work on new projects. She is working on a documentary film about a movement to build the Third Temple.

Her Poetry

In 2005, Netalie Braun won first prize in a poetry competition in Tel Aviv. The competition was called "Poetry Along the Way." As part of her prize, her first collection of poems, To Kill and to Breathe, was published in 2006. Her poems were even displayed in public places like bus stations!

Personal Life

Netalie Braun has two children. She has also worked on several films with Avigail Sperber, including Metamorphosis, Gevald, and Hatalyan.

Awards and Recognition

Netalie Braun has won many awards for her films. Here are some of them:

• In 2004, her film Last Supper of N. Braun received a special mention at the Jerusalem Film Festival. It also won Best Short Film at the Tokyo Short Film Festival and the VGIK Moscow Student Film Festival.
• In 2011, Gevald won Best Short Documentary at the Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival.
• In 2014, Vow won Best Independent Short Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival and Best Short Screenplay at the Galilee Film Festival.
• In 2017, Hope I'm in the Frame received a special mention at the DocAviv Documentary Film Festival.
• In 2018, Hope I'm in the Frame won Best Documentary in Cinema at the Master of Art Film Festival.

Filmography

See also

• List of female film and television directors
• List of lesbian filmmakers