Dana Goldberg

Dana Goldberg (Hebrew: דנה גולדברג; born March 1, 1979) is an Israeli poet, filmmaker and playwright.

For the American comedian, see Dana Goldberg (comedian).

Dana Goldberg
דנה גולדברג
Born (1979-03-01) March 1, 1979
Herzliya, Israel
Occupations
  • Film director
  • poet
  • playwright
Years active2003–present
Websitegoldbergdana.com

Biography

Goldberg was born in Herzliya. Her father was a pilot and her mother worked at a bank.[1] As a child, she studied many different creative fields: photography, music, plastic art, and writing.[1] After high school, she studied at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts and at Beit Berl College, while also beginning her path as a poet. Her work was published in literary journals, first in HaMe'orer[2] and then others, including Iton 77, Helicon, and Shebo, and she was on the editorial board of the online poetry journal Anonymous Fish?.[3][4] Her first collection, Orange Coral, was published in 2011.[5]

Beginning in 2003, Goldberg created a series of short films, including Alligator (2009), for which she won the Emerging Director award at the International Women's Film Festival In Rehovot. In 2005, she was invited to take part in the Young Talent Campus of the Berlin Film Festival.[1] In 2012, her first full-length feature film came out, Alice, about a woman who works the night shift in a residential rehabilitation school, and spends her days sleeping.[6] The film won three awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival, a special mention at the Rehovot International Women's Film Festival, and was selected to open the Berlin Israel Film Festival in 2014. In 2018, the film Death of a Poetess came out, which she directed and wrote together with Efrat Mishori.[2]

While much of Goldberg's work includes romantic and sexual relationships between women, she says, "My work isn't lesbian, it is feminist and critical of the society I live in, and the community I live in...There are many other important aspects of my life as an artist and also as a lesbian."[7]

In 2016, Goldberg and Mishori founded Kinoclan, a non-profit organization that works to promote the creation and distribution of literary and film works that give voice to women's worlds, told from women's perspectives.[8]

In theater, Goldberg wrote the play Father, Mother, Whore, which was published in the literary journal Masmerim, and was stages in the format of "directed reading" at the Tsav Kria festival (2010).[9] She also wrote Esti of the Pines, which was staged at the Theatronetto festival in 2014.

Awards
Year Nominated work Category ResultNotes
2018 Death of a Poetess Best Debut Film, Göteborg Film Festival Nominated Shared with Efrat Mishori
2017 Death of a Poetess Best Israeli Feature, Jerusalem Film Festival Nominated Shared with Efrat Mishori
2012 Alice Best Israeli Feature – Honorable Mention, Jerusalem Film Festival Won Haggiag award
2012 Alice Best Screenplay, Jerusalem Film Festival Won Gottlieb award
2012 Alice Best Israeli Feature, Jerusalem Film Festival Nominated Haggiag award

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2003 Nomi Teller Director, screenwriter Short film
2004 Cell Director, screenwriter Short film
2004 Untitled Director, screenwriter Short film
2005 Masha Director, screenwriter Short film
2007 Alpha Director, screenwriter Short film
2009 Alligator Director, screenwriter Short film
2012 Alice Director, screenwriter
2014 The Last Word Director, screenwriter Short film, part of Love Letter to Cinema project
2014 V Director, screenwriter Short film, with Efrat Mishori
2015 No Shadow Director, screenwriter Short film, with Efrat Mishori
2016 Four Mothers Director, screenwriter Short film
2017 Death of a Poetess Director, screenwriter With Efrat Mishori
2018 Gabriel Script editor Short film

See also

References
  1. נירית אנדרמן (June 28, 2013). ""אליס": סיפורה של אשה שלא היתה צריכה להביא ילד לעולם". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  2. גלית עדות (March 15, 2018). "עידן חדש בקולנוע: "הדימויים הנשיים שאנו מואבסים בהם – מראה מעוותת"". Maariv (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  3. "דנה גולדברג". דג אנונימי (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on December 17, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  4. "דנה גולדברג". האייל הקורא (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  5. ארז שוייצר (January 4, 2012). "יומן נעורים". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  6. אמיר בוגן (June 27, 2013). "נערות בהפרעה: דנה גולדברג על "אליס"". ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  7. יאיר טלמור (October 1, 2006). "דנה לא נמה" [Dana didn't sleep]. GoGay (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on November 12, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  8. נירית אנדרמן (October 30, 2016). "עמותה חדשה תקדם יצירות קולנוע וספרות על נשים מנקודת מבטן". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  9. "אב, אם, זונה – דנה גולדברג". הבמה (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 26, 2019.
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