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Michal Aviad

Michal Aviad is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and producer whose films examine social and political issues from the viewpoint of women, and a professor of film at Tel Aviv University.

born 1955Documentaries from women's perspectivesThe Women Next DoorThe film Working WomanTeaching film at Tel Aviv University

Occupation: film director, film producer, director, university teacher

Michal Aviad was born in 1955 in Jerusalem

Michal Aviad was born in 1955 in Jerusalem and grew up in the Katamon neighborhood. Her mother came from Italy and her father from Hungary. She attended the Rehavia Gymnasium and finished in 1973.

She studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. In 1984 she earned a master's degree in film from San Francisco State University. From 1981 to 1990 she lived and worked in San Francisco, where she made her first film.

Her documentaries deal with topics such as women and aging, women in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and male culture shaped by the army. Her 1992 film The Women Next Door won a peace prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2018 she directed the feature Working Woman.

She has taught in the Department of Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University since 1991 and became an associate professor in 2010. She founded the department's practical master's program and has been artistic adviser to the International Women's Film Festival in Israel since 2003. In 2019 she received the Landau Award for Arts and Sciences.

She was married to psychologist Dr. Shimshon Wigoder, and the couple has 2 children. Her partner is media scholar Prof. Jérôme Bourdon.