Ayelet Menahemi
Was born in Tel Aviv in 1963. She graduated with honours from the Beit Zvi School of Stage and Cinematic Arts in 1985. Since then she has been working in the Israeli film industry as a director and editor. In 1986 she directed the award-winning drama "Orvi" which was followed by two feature films: "Abba Ganuv III " (1991) and "Sipurei Tel-Aviv " (1992). Her work has also includes numerous television commercials, short fiction films, documentaries, and music videos.
Filmography:
Noodle (2007)
Zmani (2001)
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (1997)
Get (1992)
Sipurei Tel-Aviv (1992)
Abba Ganuv III (1991)
Orvi (1988)
Films
- Doing Time, Doing Vipassana52’
Production: IND/IL 1997Two women filmmakers from Israel, Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel, initiated this independent project. In the winter of 1994-95 they spent five months in India, doing intensive research on the use of Vipassana as a rehabilitation method and its dramatic impact on foreign and Indian prisoners. The authorities were unusually cooperative, allowing the team free access to two Indian jails. The documentary begins with the story of Tihar Prison - a huge and notorious institution housing 10,000 inmates, 9,000 of them awaiting trial. When a new Inspector General, Kiran Bedi, was posted there in 1993, Tihar entered period of rapid-fire change.
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