Hilla Medalia

Hilla Medalia is an Academy Award® Nominee and Peabody Award-winning director, producer, writer and has received six Emmy award nominations. Her projects have garnered critical acclaim and screened internationally in theaters and on platforms including HBO, Netflix, MTV, PBS, BBC and ARTE.

Her range of titles includes: Children no More: “Were and are Gone” (2025, DocNYC, nomination for Oscar®), “Adaptation to Darkness” (Docaviv, Palm Sptings 2025), “ADA – My Mother, the Architect” (JFF, 2024), “Tropicana” (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival) “Wanted: Roni Kalderon”  (DocAviv, 2024), “Mourning in Lod” (MTV Documentaries, DocAviv, 2023) “Innocence” (Venice International Film Festival, 2022), “H2: The Occupation Lab” (Hotdocs, Fipa, 2022), “Love & Stuff” (HotDocs, DOCNYC, 2020), “Leftover Women” (Tribeca, ARTE, 2019), “The Oslo Diaries” (Sundance, HBO, ARTE, 2018), “Muhi” (IDFA, HotDocs, 2017),  “Censored Voices,” (Sundance, Berlinale, 2015), “The Go Go Boys” (Cannes, 2014), “Web Junkie” (Sundance, POV, BBC, 2014), “Dancing in Jaffa” (Tribeca, IFC, 2013). Hilla is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and she holds an M.A. from Southern Illinois University.