Born in 1980 in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tamar Tal Anari is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. An award-winning filmmaker with more than 20 international awards, she graduated from the Camera Obscura School of Arts in Tel Aviv. In 2012, her documentary Life in Stills won the Award of the Israeli Film Academy, Israel’s highest film award, for Best Documentary, and was named best film at the Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival. She was also named best new director at the Dok Leipzig International Film Festival in 2011. Her latest feature documentary Shalom Italia premiered at IDFA in Best of Fests category, and was broadcast on Yes Doc and PBS/POV. Her short animated documentary The Red House won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Master of Art Film Festival in Bulgaria in 2018.