Daphna Awadish

Daphna Awadish was born in 1989

Daphna Awadish Golan was born in 1989. Her mother, Riva Pinsky-Awadish, is a painter, and her father, Moti Awadish, worked in finance at a travel company. She grew up in Jerusalem and finished the Charles E. Smith High School of the Arts in 2007.

She served as a soldier teacher in the Nahal. From 2011 to 2015 she studied screen arts at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, focusing on animation. She later earned a master's degree in animated documentary at the St. Joost institute in the Netherlands.

Her films include Journey Birds, Bear With Me, a film in memory of soldier Amit Yaori, and Swimming With Wings. Bear With Me won the animation award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Fantastic Award in Stuttgart. Swimming With Wings won the Grand Prix du Jury at the Meknes festival in Morocco.

She has illustrated several children's books and taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam from 2021 to 2022. She is married to Ben Golan, has one daughter and lives in Amsterdam.