Documentary Feature · 2017 · 57 minutes

Hope I'm In The Frame

An aging film director struggles to make a new film — the story of Michal Bat-Adam, the first female film director in Israel.

An aging film director is trying to make a new film. She struggles to find the support to get her project off the ground. This director is Michal Bat-Adam, the first female film director in Israel, who dared to try — and ultimately succeeded — in breaking into the closed, militaristic, and chauvinistic film industry in Israel during the 1970s. "Hope I'm in the Frame" follows Bat-Adam's shooting of her new low-budget film and intimately documents her and her husband, the Oscar-winning film director Moshe Mizrahi, sharing the struggle to make films despite the establishment's rejection. The film raises questions about art, aging, love, partnership, and compassion.