Nomi Talisman

Nomi Talisman was born in 1966 in Tel Aviv

Nomi Talisman was born in Tel Aviv and grew up in Herzliya. She studied animation in high school.

She studied photography and fine arts at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and at Beit Berl College. In 2003 she completed a master's degree at Mills College in Oakland, California. She later taught at Camera Obscura, Shenkar and Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem.

She lived in Europe, Canada and Japan, and since 2001 she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she works as a freelance media maker. In 2015 she made Last Day of Freedom with her partner Dee Hibbert-Jones. The film is about Bill Babbitt, who weighed whether to turn in his brother after a crime.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 88th Academy Awards and won a Northern California Emmy Award. In 2016 the pair received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2019 a Creative Capital Award for the animated documentary Run With It. Talisman is married to Hibbert-Jones, and they have a son.