Israela Shaer-Meoded is a film director and researcher. She directed eight short and feature films. Her films have been shown in festivals in Israel and ‘worldwide and have won prizes. She is a graduate of the MA and MFA (with honors) programs at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University and holds a BA in Photography from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She is currently a doctoral student at the School of Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University focusing on the first women Mizrahi directors in Israeli cinema. She currently takes part in the Narrative Greenhouse Project for Women Filmmakers by the New Israel Foundation for Cinema and Television, where she is writing her first narrative script.