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Michal Goldman, painter, videographer, movie producer, born 1955, Tel Aviv. Her documentaries look at how people define and express the urgent issues of their times through the way they live. She produces, writes, and edits all her films. She is founder and President Emerita of Filmmakers Collaborative (a group of independent documentary filmmakers in Boston), and was the founder of the Boston, Massachussetts, USA, Jewish Film Festival in 1989. Some of her films are:"At Home In Utopia"(the way a militant community of factory workers living in the Allerton Co-Ops tried to live its ideals during [1920-1930's]and after the Great Depression) "A Jumpin' Night in The Garden Of Eden" (documentary about the Klezmer Revival); "Umm Kullthum, A Voice Like Egypt"(about music and anti-colonialism in the Middle East);"Epiphany In Progress"(documenting the first year of a new faith-based inner city school)

Education

Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem.
Harvard University, Boston, Massachussetts, USA, Graduate, History of Art

Awards And Prizes

1984 Study Grant, Jersey Fund, California, USA
1987 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Prize for Young Artists
1989 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Prize for Young Artists
1997 Prize For Creators of Visual Arts, Ministry of Education and Culture
2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, USA
2007 Golden Plaque: Documentary- History/Biography, Chicago Film Festival, Illinois, USA
2007 Award For Promoting Tolerance from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee