Vanessa Lapa

Vanessa Lapa is an accomplished journalist, who produced and directed over 100 news reports and documentaries for Israeli TV. In 2006 she founded Realworks, an independent production house, specializing in documentary film. Its projects include Olmert: Concealed Documentary (2009), about Israel's former prime minister, and The Decent One (2014), a glimpse into the mind of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, based on his personal diaries, which was officially selected for Panorama at the Berlinale. In 2020, she is returning to the Berlinale with a feature documentary about Reichsminister Albert Speer.