Danae Elon

Danae Elon is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer. She is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film. Her last film A Sister's Song won an Iris Award for Best Cinematography as well as was nominated for Best Editing. She won the Best Director Award from the Moscow Documentary Film Festival and an AIDC Award for Innovation in Documentary Filmmaking. The film was showcased at Leipzig Doc, IDFA, and FIPA Doc. Her previous films Another Road Home (2004), Partly Private (2007), P.S Jerusalem (2015), and The Patriarch's Room (2018) have been showcased at TIFF, Berlin, Tribeca, IDFA, Hot Docs, Melbourne International Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and many other international festivals. They have also been theatrically released in the US and Canada and broadcast on the BBC, ARTE, The Sundance Channel, Radio Canada, YLE Finland, TV2, Canal Vie Denmark, HOT and CHANNEL 1 Israel, AL JAZEERA International, amongst others. She is currently preparing a feature film on the architecture of power in Jerusalem as well as a VR project about Moshe Safdie in Jerusalem.