As a documentary filmmaker I bring inspiring and important human stories, to the screen. My protagonists are people who influence life and work to bring change. It is my responsibility as a woman filmmaker to make films that concern us as women.
Judy Herbstein is a documentary film director, photographer, researcher and producer with a MFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California and another master's degree in cinema from the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has lived and made news stories and documentary films in the United States, South Africa and Israel. She won an Emmy Award for producing a series of video pieces for "The News Hour", PBS filmed in Hebron (1996). In recent years she has been living in the North of Israel. She teaches filmmaking alongside continuing her work as a creative artist.
As a documentary filmmaker I bring inspiring and important human stories, to the screen. My protagonists are people who influence life and work to bring change. It is my responsibility as a woman filmmaker to make films that concern us as women.