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Ornit Barkai

Greater Boston Area

documentary filmmaker

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Title/Occupation:  Director  Editor  Producer  Writer 

Services Provided:  Film/Video Editing  Narration/Translation 

Languages Spoken: Fluently: English, Hebrew. Basic level: French, Spanish, Arabic

Biography: Ornit Barkai currently works on a feature-length documentary titled Cyber Sapiens, exploring how social media and social networking have been affecting our life and culture. Her film credits include the documentaries From Anne Frank's WIndow (which screened May 2008 at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival), A Day in Poland, Past Forward (work-in-progress) which all explore post-Holocaust narratives from multi-generational perspectives, A Moment of Silence (featured at the Boston university's PRC Gallery and at Williams College Museum of Art) and Manhattan Moments which highlight 9/11 themes, and Let Them Fly which documents Jewish youth leadership in New England and is part of the media curriculum of the Boston Bureau of Jewish Education. She was recently appointed to be an HBI Scholar-in-Residence for the summer of 2009 at Brandeis University where she will research and develop a documentary on the topic of Las Polacas. Ornit offers diverse media production and broadcasting experience with regional and national radio and TV stations and international programming. She worked in the newsrooms of WGBH-TV, WBZ-TV, IBA-TV, Monitor Cable News and broadcasted news, interviews and music programs on WERS-FM, WTTP-AM, WUNR-AM and IDF radio. Nowadays an independent documentary filmmaker, she produces, directs, videotapes and edits documentaries and multimedia projects for educational organizations and private clients. Ornit served on the Board of Directors of Carlisle Communications, Inc. for six years and currently writes a Forum column for its Carlisle Mosquito weekly newspaper. Ornit holds an M.A. in Mass Communications/TV Production emphasis from Emerson College.