Dana Goldberg

Dana Goldberg (; born March 1, 1979) is an Israeli poet, filmmaker and playwright.

Biography Goldberg was born in Herzliya. Her father was a pilot and her mother worked at a bank. As a child, she studied many different creative fields: photography, music, plastic art, and writing. and then others, including Iton 77, Helicon, and Shebo, and she was on the editorial board of the online poetry journal Anonymous Fish?. Her first collection, Orange Coral, was published in 2011.

Beginning in 2003, Goldberg created a series of short films, including Alligator (2009), for which she won the Emerging Director award at the International Women's Film Festival In Rehovot. In 2005, she was invited to take part in the Young Talent Campus of the Berlin Film Festival. The film won three awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival, a special mention at the Rehovot International Women's Film Festival, and was selected to open the Berlin Israel Film Festival in 2014. In 2018, the film Death of a Poetess came out, which she directed and wrote together with Efrat Mishori.

In 2016, Goldberg and Mishori founded Kinoclan, a non-profit organization that works to promote the creation and distribution of literary and film works that give voice to women's worlds, told from women's perspectives.

In theater, Goldberg wrote the play Father, Mother, Whore, which was published in the literary journal Masmerim, and was staged in the format of "directed reading" at the Tsav Kria festival (2010). She also wrote Esti of the Pines, which was staged at the Theatronetto festival in 2014.

In 2023, her film Debbie Was Here won the Artistic Achievement in a Feature Film award at the Haifa International Film Festival. In October 2024, she won the Haifa Culture Fund Opus grant in the Haifa International Film Festival pitch competition for her film in development, The Left Heart.

Awards 2018 Death of a Poetess Best Debut Film, Göteborg Film Festival Shared with Efrat Mishori 2017 Death of a Poetess Best Israeli Feature, Jerusalem Film Festival Shared with Efrat Mishori 2012 Alice Best Israeli Feature – Honorable Mention, Jerusalem Film Festival Haggiag award 2012 Alice Best Screenplay, Jerusalem Film Festival Gottlieb award 2012 Alice Best Israeli Feature, Jerusalem Film Festival Haggiag award

Filmography

Poetry

אלמוגים כתומים (Orange Corals), Keshev LeShira, 2011 שמש ישירה (Direct Sun), Locus, 2020

Plays

2010: אב, אם, זונה (Father, Mother, Whore) 2014: אסתי של האורנים (Esti of the Pine Trees)