Writer/Director, Fill the Void
Nominated for: Best First Feature / Best First Screenplay
Rama Burshtein was born in New York in 1967. She graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem in 1994. During those years, Rama became deeply religious and upon her graduation she dedicated herself to promoting film as a tool for self expression in the orthodox community.
Rama wrote, directed and produced films for the orthodox community, some of them for women only. She was also teaching directing and scriptwriting in various film and television institutions within the orthodox community; those include Ma’ale Film School, Yad Benjamin Film School for Woman, Ulpena Arts School, Jerusalem. Fill the Void is her first feature film.
