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Tami Berenstein is an award-winning international animation and documentary director, concept artist, animator and illustrator. She serves as Head of the Screen-Based Arts Department.

She started working in Telad’s promo department while still a student in the academy, after winning a promo competition in her first year. Since her graduation, she specialized in various aspects of her field, such as developing TV channels, conceptual branding, developing and directing animation series, computer games, and children’s books.

Berenstein created TV series that aired on 85 channels around the world and have millions of online views, including “Cuddlies,” for which she was also nominated for the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and won an ASIF award for Israeli animation.

Her own non-commercial work has been featured in festivals all over the world, and includes the indie film “Drawing of the Inevitable,” created in collaboration with cellist Maya Belsitzman. In 2018 she created the animation project at the Israel Opera with the Revolution Orchestra.

In 2016 she founded and curated the international animation festival AniNation – Jerusalem, which attracts some 7,000 viewers every year. The successful festival is held at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and throughout Jerusalem, with an emphasis on adult animation and artist workshops, VR and animation installations, including at the YMCA Sports Center.

Berenstein has served as the chief animation elector and senior advisor for the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund as well as HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts. She established The Scene incubator of the Project for Cinema and Television in Jerusalem and was nominated for an Ophir award for a documentary script. She was the first women named “Animix Festival Notable,” the highest award in the field of animation in Israel. She is the mother of Carmi and the life-partner of Shirley.

B. Jerusalem 1971,

Video artist, Head of Video studies at the The Screen Based Arts Department at The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. MFA graduate at Hunter college NYC. She received The Gesher Foundation award (2008), The Creative Encouragement Award of the Israel Ministry of Culture & Sport (2008), The Young Artist Award of the Israel Ministry of Culture & Sport (2004) The America – Israel  Cultural Foundation (AICF) Scholarship Award for Artistic Achievement (1998-2002). Balaban has participated in exhibitions both in Israel and abroad, amongst them solo exhibitions at The Herzliya Museum of Art, The Haifa Museum of Art, Appendix Gallery, Warsaw, Tavi Art gallery, Tel Aviv and group exhibitions in Artists space, NYC, Queens Museum, NYC, Video Zone, Herzliya Museum, Art Chicago, Mediation Biennale, Poznan, Meet Factory, Prague, Tarun centre for contemporary Art, poland, NordArt, Germany. The Israel museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for contemporary art, the Tel Aviv museum of Art, ZAZ10TS Gallery NYC.

Diverse curatorial projects in the public sphere: Operation, Contemporary Art at the Supermarket, featuring 22 artists. Talita-Kumi – video installation in the windows of a central store, video program projections at the abandoned “Eden” cinema in central jerusalem.

Teacher, Animator, Computer Specialist & World Traveler.

Graduate & Lecturer of the Screen Based Arts Department  at Bezalel, where he already started teaching during his studies.

Specializing in teaching Computer Programs for Animation & Graphics, he taught across many of Israel’s art schools, from the lush center, to the deserts of the periphery.

When not teaching, he travels the world with a laptop & digital stylus,

creating for his clients personally tailored animation movies, in the most exotic places on earth!

Noa Berman-Herzberg is a screenwriter, a screenwritng teacher, a “script doctor”, a “serial pickler” and a radio broadcaster of “Sour Night Owls” in Galei Zahal. She’s a screenwriting teacher in the Screen Based Arts Department since 2005.

Berman-Herzberg graduated with Honor the World Literature Department in TLV University and the Writing Department of Camera Obscura School of Cinema and has an M.A in Film Culture from Haifa University.

Among her Films – MABUL, 89 min, 2011, directed by Guy Nattiv, which participated in many International festivals and won prestige prizes, among them the Crystal Bear in Berlinale 2011 and others, Harmonia, directed by Guy Nativ (2021), Holy Holocaust, a short docu-animation, directed in collaboration with Osi Wald (2021) and other projects.

Berman-Herzberg worked as a reader, editor and translator in several book publishing houses (1996-2000), wrote and edited Design and Architecture columns in “Binyan ve Dior” Design Magazine (2000-2003) and since 2008 she is a reader, mentor and a judge in film funds, cinema festivals, screen labs and cinema departments in several schools.

In 2017 she started a unique project -“Sour Food Sour Stories” events that combines Storytelling and culinary. since then she has done 30 events in Israel and around the world, a radio show based on the same concept and a documentary series (“Missing Out”) in the making.