Ye'ela Rosenfeld

Ye'ela started as a director and assistant director in the Israeli film and TV industry. She then moved to Prague, Czech Republic, where she worked with Roman Polanski directing the behind the scenes featurette for "Oliver Twist". Ye'ela moved to Los Angeles to attend the directing program of the American Film Institute Conservatory, where she directed four films, including "The Evening Journey" starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Mapel and Jack Kehler. In 2010 Ye'ela directed the theater show "Ferdinand!" written by former Czech president Vaclav Havel. The show received raving reviews and kept running through 2011. Ye'ela's film "Just in Case" opened at the Palm Springs Intl' ShortFest and screened in film festivals worldwide and won multiple awards. In 2016 Ye'ela co-wrote "Jacob's Dream," a feature film funded by the co-production program of the Israeli Film Fund. In 2017 Ye'ela directed the acclaimed show "The Physicists," which opened at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and in 2018 she directed Jean Paul Sartre's "No Exit," which ran at the Chromolume Theatre. In 2019 Ye'ela launched her own theatre company "The Social Stage'' with a sold out, acclaimed run of Howard Zinn's "Marx in Soho." Ye'ela's Debut feature script "The First Day of Spring '' was developed with the help of Sundance Institute mentors Joan Darling and Gyula Gazdag.