Gal is an award-winning Israeli filmmaker whose work moves between fiction and documentary, exploring complex political realities with warmth, humor, and a deep need to make life more colorful.
Winner of the PARAMOUNT+ award, MIA Roma (2023) for NON-ISSUE, co-created with her life partner Nayef Hammoud. The project also participated in the Sam Spiegel Series Lab, supported by Netflix (2022).
Currently editing her debut doc, IT IS WHAT IT IS, winner of the CoPro Doc market and and selected for several work-in-progress forums, including EBU Pitching (IDFA), DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market, MEDIMED, and CEDOC (Krakow FF).
Gal wrote and directed four short films – SHMITA (2016), VIVID RUTHIE (2017), ARABIC FRIDAY (2019) last two also screened commercially. Last October finished her new short - WHY AREN'T YOU CRYING which now begins its journey in the world.
A graduate with honors from the Sam Spiegel Film School (Jerusalem), Gal began her career as a film editor. Her editing credits include Tiberias (Winner: Best Series, Israeli Documentary Awards; Nominee: Best Editing, Israeli Television Awards), Nafas (Sundance TV), and others.
Winner of Best Research, Docaviv&DOC FORUM for 1948–REMEMBER, REMEMBER NOT, which was banned for political reasons.