Netalie Braun
נטעלי בראון
Born (1978-06-12) June 12, 1978
NationalityIsraeli
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, poet

Netalie Braun (Hebrew: נטעלי בראון; born June 12, 1978) is an Israeli poet, writer and filmmaker. She won the 2017 Ophir Award for the best short documentary film.

Career

Braun completed her BA in literature and philosophy, and an MA in film at Tel Aviv University. She also completed a poetry course at Helicon.[1]

Film

Braun makes both documentary and narrative films. Her two short fiction films Tabur (2004) and The Last Supper of N. Braun (2005) were screened at film festivals in Israel and around the world.[2]

Her documentary Metamorphosis (2006), which weaves together testimonies by women who were victims of rape with myths about sexual violence, was released to rave reviews.[3] It premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was shown at many international film festivals.[4][5] It was broadcast on Israel's Channel One and at a United Nations convention on the status of women. Metamorphosis won the 2006 Aliza Shagrir Award for the best documentary film and the Association for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's International Media Award.

Braun's short film Gevald (2008) had its international premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival, followed by many international screenings.[6] It won first place at the Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival, at the Paris Queer Film Festival, and at the Goethe Institut's competition for films dealing with human rights.[4]

Hatalyan, the documentary film that Braun produced and directed with Avigail Sperber, is about Adolf Eichmann's hangman.[7] The film was broadcast on YES, and won first place at the Haifa International Film Festival of 2010.[4] It was a finalist for the best short documentary at IDFA,[8] and won the 2011 best documentary award at the Forum of Documentary Filmmakers competition.

Her short film Vow won the short independent film awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival of 2014, the best directing award in the Independent Films competition of the Student Film Festival (2015) and first prize at the Seoul International Women's Film Festival (2015).[4]

Braun's documentary film, Hope I'm in the Frame, about director and actor Michal Bat-Adam,[9] received a special mention at Docaviv film festival (2017),[4] and the Ophir Award for best short documentary.[10][11]

Braun was the art director for the International Women's Film Festival In Rehovot between 2011 and 2013.[12]

In 2018, Braun was selected to participate in the first documentary filmmakers lab conducted by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, in cooperation with the Forum of Documentary Filmmakers, which will take place in 2019, to work on her documentary film about the movement to build the Third Temple.[13]

Poetry

In 2005 Braun won first prize in the Tel Aviv municipality competition "Poetry Along the Way", in which poems are displayed in public areas such as bus stations and wall of buildings. One of the prizes was funding for publication of her first collection, To Kill and to Breathe, which was published in 2006.[1][14]

Personal life

Braun was in a relationship with Avigail Sperber, and they had one child. After they broke up, Braun remarried and had another child.[15] They also collaborated on Metamorphosis, Gevald, and Hatalyan (The Hangman).[16][17][18]

Awards

Year Nominated work Category ResultNotes
2004 Last Supper of N. Braun Special mention, Jerusalem Film Festival Won
2004 Last Supper of N. Braun Best Short Film, Tokyo Short Film Festival Won
2004 Last Supper of N. Braun Best Short Film, VGIK Moscow Student Film Festival Won
2011 Gevald Best Short Documentary, Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival Won
2014 Vow Best Independent Short Film, Jerusalem Film Festival Won
2014 Vow Best Short Screenplay, Galilee Film Festival Won
2017 Hope I'm in the Frame Special Honorable Mention, DocAviv Documentary Film Festival Won
2018 Hope I'm in the Frame Best Documentary in Cinema, Master of Art Film Festival Won

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Tabur Director Short film
2005 Last Supper of N. Braun Director Short film
2005 Metamorphosis Director, writer Short documentary
2008 Gevald Director, producer, writer Short documentary
2010 Hatalyan Co-director (Avigail Sperber), producer Documentary
2014 Vow Director, producer, writer Short film
2017 Hope I'm in the Frame Director, producer, cinematographer Documentary

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "נטעלי בראון (1978)". לקסיקון הספרות העברית החדשה (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ "נדר – 3 סרטים קצרים של נטעלי בראון". הבמה (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ "סטירה בפרצוף. ניתוח ללא הרדמה". מכונת־קריאה (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "השאלון של העוקץ: נטעלי בראון". העוקץ (in Hebrew). June 18, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Metamorphosis 2005". Claudius Films. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ "סרטים גאים תוצרת ישראל בברלין". Maariv (in Hebrew). January 29, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  7. ↑ שהרה בלאו (April 11, 2011). "שחיטת הארכיון: אחרי "התליין", סרטי שואה לא ייראו אותו דבר". Walla!News (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  8. ↑ נירית אנדרמן (October 14, 2010). ""התליין" התקבל לתחרות של IDFA". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  9. ↑ שני ליטמן (May 13, 2017). ""מקווה שאני בפריים" הוא מתנה לתרבות הישראלית". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  10. ↑ אנדרמן, נירית (September 19, 2017). ""פוקסטרוט" זכה בפרס אופיר לסרט הטוב ביותר". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  11. ↑ ""מקווה שאני בפריים": יצירה נוגעת ללב על הבמאית שפרצה את הדרך". ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  12. ↑ "הפסטיבל לסרטי נשים נלחם באלימות ואונס". ynet (in Hebrew). September 20, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  13. ↑ "חממה אינטלקטואלית לפיתוח יצירה תיעודית" (PDF). מכון ון ליר (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  14. ↑ "להרוג ולנשום". Yedioth Aharonoth (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  15. ↑ "מקום לדמעות" [A place for tears]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). September 6, 2006. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Metamorphosis". The New Fund for Cinema and Television. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Gevald" (PDF). Berlin International Film Festival. 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  18. ↑ "The Hangman". International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
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