MINT TEA

Orna Levi, a proud lesbian & feminist PhD student, is on top of everything while excepting every day now for her first baby to be born. She does not accept getting stuck in her empty university’s toilet with her rescuer.
THE LIGHTHOUSE INITIATIVE INC will publish this film on Prime Video.

  • Avigail Graetz
    Director
    London, wrong Rhythm, My first wedding in legging, Glow Stick
  • Avigail Graetz
    Writer
  • Avigail Graetz
    Producer
    London, Nino, Wrong Rhythm, My first wedding in leggings, Glow Stick
  • Danit Attar
    Key Cast
    "Orna"
  • Roy Basch
    Key Cast
    "David"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Shiba & Nana
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 13 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Israel
  • Country of Filming:
    Israel
  • Language:
    Hebrew
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television Tel Aviv University Israel
  • TLVFest, Tel Aviv’s International LGBT Film Festival
    TEL AVIV
    Israel
    November 18, 2021
    WORLD PREMIERE
  • Long-Short film festival
    Tel Aviv
    Israel
    June 21, 2022
    SECOND PRIZE
  • JxJ Festival THE WASHINGTON JEWISH FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
    Washington, DC
    United States
    May 18, 2022
    NORTH AMERICAN PREIMRE
    OFFICIAL SELCTION
  • 13th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, 2022
    MUMBAI
    India
    June 9, 2022
    INDIAN PREMIRE
Director Biography - Avigail Graetz

Avigail Graetz born in Israel in 1975 to American parents.
She has a B.A in film from Tel Aviv University and a M.F.A from Ben-Gurion University in creative writing.
Wrote six plays that were shown on stage.
She teaches about "Israeli Society as seen through Film" for the Overseas Program at at the University of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herziliya. Her play Ona’at Devarim- “Verbal Wrongs” was featured at the Akko festival 2006 and “In Case I’m not around” which she directed as well was featured at the Israeli festival 2016. She was awarded the PARDES Fellowship at the National Library of Israel and the Jewish National Fund-Hebrew Literature Prize (2012), both for her debut novel "A rabbi's daughter". Translated to English in 2017. She has published several short stories, as well as poetry, and had a weekly column that integrated the “Portion of the Week” with Buddhist philosophy.

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