Director's Biography
Hanna Azoulay Hasfari is an actress, playwright, script writer, social activist & artist.
For the past 25 years she has worked on stage as a leading actress in plays, TV & Film.
Azoulay Hsfari has been twice awarded Best Leading Actress by the Israeli Film Academy. She also won Best Actress Award at the Jerusalem Festival, 2008, and the Critics Award for Best Actress at the Jerusalem Festival, 2009.
Azoulay- Hasfari wrote the script and acted in the film Sh'chur – a highly acclaimed feature film which participated in numerous festivals around the world and won prizes such as Best Film Award by the Israeli Film Academy, and the Special Mention Award at the Berlin Film Festival. It also won First Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival and Best Script Award at the Troja Film Festival.
Azoulay Hasfari has written plays including Betulot Shiduch, Slihot and Mimuna. Slihot was performed in Nottara Theater in Bucharest, Romania in February 2012. She has also developed two documentary series: The Workers – about the story of female factory workers, and My Little Empire - about female empowerment entrepreneurship.
Azoulay- Hasfari is amongst the founders of "The Democratic Sephardic Rainbow Coalition" in Israel, a political activism national movement focused on improving Sephardic rights.