Netalie Braun

Netalie Braun was born in 1978

Netalie Braun was born on June 12, 1978. She grew up in a secular-traditional family and chose to become religious as a child. She attended Yeshurun, a religious high school for girls in Petah Tikva, and left religion during her military service.

She earned a BA in literature and philosophy and an MA in film at Tel Aviv University. She also studied in the Alma fellows program and in the Helicon poetry class.

Braun makes both fiction and documentary films. Her documentary Metamorphosis (2006) combined testimonies of rape survivors with myths about sexual violence. With Avigail Sperber she made The Hangman, about Shalom Nagar, who hanged Adolf Eichmann.

Her documentary Hope I'm in the Frame, about Michal Bat-Adam, won the Ophir Award in 2017. She was art director of the International Women's Film Festival in Rehovot from 2011 to 2013. She teaches at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University and heads its practical master's track.

In 2005 she won the Tel Aviv municipality contest Poetry Along the Way. The prize funded her first poetry book, To Kill and to Breathe, published in 2006.