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Danae Elon

Danae Elon is an Israeli documentary filmmaker and cinematographer from Jerusalem, known for films such as Another Road Home and P.S. Jerusalem.

born 1970The documentary Another Road HomeThe documentary P.S. JerusalemFilms about Jerusalem and Palestinians

Born: 23 December 1970, Jerusalem
Occupation: filmmaker, film director, film producer, director
Education: New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Danae Elon was born in 1970 in Jerusalem

Danae Elon was born in Jerusalem on December 23, 1970. She is the only daughter of journalist and author Amos Elon and cookbook writer Beth Elon.

She began as a still photographer and later shot films. She graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1995. Her graduation film, Never Again Forever, came out in 1996 and dealt with the founding of the Jewish Defense League in Brooklyn.

Her film Another Road Home follows her search for a Palestinian man who worked in her family's Jerusalem home for 20 years. It was released in theaters in 2005 and shown in 15 US cities. Partly Private, about circumcision, premiered at Tribeca in 2009, and that year she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She moved back to Israel with her family in 2010 and left for Montreal in 2013. P.S. Jerusalem, released in 2015, tells the story of that return. The Patriarch's Room followed in 2016.

Elon taught at Sapir Academic College and headed the Israeli documentary program at the Cinema South Festival. She is an adjunct lecturer at Queen's University in Kingston.