Danae Elon


Poster image Danae Elon

Danae Elon directs and produces documentaries. After attending New York University, where she graduated with honours in 1995, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. Several of her films have been screened at prestigious festivals including TIFF, IDFA, Berlinale, Hot Docs, and RIDM, and have won numerous awards. Among them, Never Again Forever, co-directed with Pierre Chainet in 1995, traces the history of the Jewish Defense League, Another Road Home (2003) focuses on the relationship between an Israeli and a Palestinian family in light of the conflict between these peoples. She also directed It's a Boy (2009), P.S. Jerusalem (2016) and The Patriarch's Room (2017). Her latest documentary, A Sister's Song (2018), won the Iris Award for best cinematography at the Gala Québec Cinéma as well as the AIDC award for innovation in documentary film. Danae has taught documentary film in Israel and the United States. Since 2013, she lives in Montreal.

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