Noa Maiman Filmmaker & actress
Filmography:
2023
Mazal Tov
Director and writer
Short scripted comedy about a young Jewish couple that gives birth to an.. arab baby.
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Won best narrative short at Berlin Women Cinema Festival 2024.
Participated in:
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HOLLYWOOD SHORTSFEST
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Hollywood Comedy Shorts
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Cinequest Film Festival
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New York Shorts International Film Festival
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DC Shorts International Film Festival
Semi-Finalist
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VENEZIA SHORTS ITALY
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Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
2019
Emma
Director and Co-producer
Short documentary following Noa’s realization that it’s time to let Emma, her beloved dog, go. With a certain level of humor, 'Emma' portrays the simplicity and banality of death, and the immense emptiness the people left behind experience when facing death of their close ones.
Emma was elected as official selection at 5th FINDECOIN (VENEZUELA) and Sochi Film Festival - Russia and in Competition at Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Signs of the Night) - Berlin.
2016
Whom am I
Director
A TV documentary film that follows mature children who were born thanks to a sperm bank donation. The film explores their ambivalent relation to their unknown father’s.
2015
Children of Divorce
Director
A TV documentary film that explores the challenges that kids of divorced families face when growing up and aspiring to form their own functioning relations.
2014-2017
Toolkit for Rape Recovery
Creator
An independent web-series following Noa’s personal path of recovering from sexual abuse and rape. Twelve episodes, eleven of them are already online (YouTube), the series have an Hebrew version and an English one. It got a vast media coverage in Israel, Germany and the UK. Scripted, presented, directed and edited by Noa.
2011
Homecoming
Co-Director & Producer
A documentary film that takes three foreign – Israeli teenagers on a unique and emotional journey from their actual country back to their "home" country.
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Homecoming was nominated for the official selection – Reportage and Current Affaires competition, 24th FIPA, 2011.
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Nominated for best documentary in the first GCIFF (Golden Coast International Film Festival) in Long Island, June 2011.
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Screened in the 5th Other Israel Film Festival in NY, November 2011.
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Was purchased by the Harvard university library.
2010
OY, Mama
Director, Script - Writer & Producer
A documentary film that takes us on a journey to relieve the director's Grandmother from her Holocaust burden. She helps a young Peruvian girl just like a polish lady helped her during the war. A film by Added Value Creation House.
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Oy Mama has won the "Remembrance and Future" documentary award at the 10th goEast Film Festival in Weisbaden, Germany - April, 2010.
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Nominated for the "History & Biography" Documentary Award at the 16th Shanghai TV Festival, China – June 2010.
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Nominated for best documentary inThe Bend Film Festival, Oregon, USA 2010.
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Nominated in the Israeli documentary guild award.
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Screened in the 14th Religion Today Film Festival in Italy.
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Purchased by the Harvard university library
2011
Status: Single
Producer & Scriptwriter
A TV documentary film that follows mature children who were born thanks to a sperm bank donation. The film explores their ambivalent relation to their unknown father’s.
2010
Unquiet Child
Producer
A documentary that follows two young boys (ages 9 & 13) with ADHD on their journey for a proper diagnose and treatment.
2010
Health
Producer
A Three episodes series (Israeli Pregnancy, Depression’s out of the closet, and Dangerous Sex about STD).
2010
Unbearable pain
Producer
A Three episodes series about the suicidal state and the families and friends that are left behind.
Unbearable pain was screened in the Doc Aviv film festival, 2010.