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Anat Schwartz
Anat Schwartz (Hebrew: עֲנָת שְׁוַרְץ; born 1978) is an Israeli filmmaker, television director, data analyst, and freelance writer. Her films and the films she worked on, comprising mostly short documentary and narrative films, have been screened at major festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival. She gained significant media attention outside of her film work in 2024, in the context of broader controversies around the Media coverage of the Gaza war, as one of the authors of "Screams Without Words" – a New York Times article about sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October attack on Israel – which was heavily criticized for the quality of its reporting, which further led to a social media controversy and dissent within the paper.
Schwartz was born in Haifa in 1978, and raised in Ramat Ef'al. She graduated from Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem and attended a summer university course at La Femis in Paris. She additionally received a BA cum laude in philosophy and literature at Tel Aviv University. She received various scholarships, including a scholarship from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Schwartz holds an MFA from the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University.
Schwartz has served in the Israeli Air Force intelligence division.
Haaretz describes her as "a left-wing Israeli whose Facebook profile picture declares in Arabic and Hebrew that 'Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies'".
In 2005, she produced the film Ha'chavera shell Emile by director Nadav Lapid, which was selected for the competition of Cinéfondation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. She also contributed to the critically acclaimed 2008 animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir. In 2017, she directed and filmed a documentary series titled La Promise, which was broadcast on the YesDocu channel; it was since adapted into a documentary film.
Schwartz began working in the data industry in 2020, when she joined the Israeli company Vault AI as a Content Data Analyst. The same year, Schwartz directed and wrote the short film 39, which participated in the official competition at the Torino Film Festival. It was her first fiction film. In 2022, she directed, wrote, and produced the film Soviet Life - Zoya Cherkassky about the artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi. The film was broadcast on Kan 11 and received the 2022 Israeli Documentary Forum award, as well as the Short Film Award at the Master of Art Film Festival.
Since 2025 Schwarz is the head of the school of Film and Communication of Seminar Hakibuzim.
In 2023, Schwartz was hired by the New York Times. She received credit for co-writing or assisting on seven Times articles, most on sexual violence.
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Anat Schwartz
Anat Schwartz (Hebrew: עֲנָת שְׁוַרְץ; born 1978) is an Israeli filmmaker, television director, data analyst, and freelance writer. Her films and the films she worked on, comprising mostly short documentary and narrative films, have been screened at major festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival. She gained significant media attention outside of her film work in 2024, in the context of broader controversies around the Media coverage of the Gaza war, as one of the authors of "Screams Without Words" – a New York Times article about sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October attack on Israel – which was heavily criticized for the quality of its reporting, which further led to a social media controversy and dissent within the paper.
Schwartz was born in Haifa in 1978, and raised in Ramat Ef'al. She graduated from Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem and attended a summer university course at La Femis in Paris. She additionally received a BA cum laude in philosophy and literature at Tel Aviv University. She received various scholarships, including a scholarship from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Schwartz holds an MFA from the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University.
Schwartz has served in the Israeli Air Force intelligence division.
Haaretz describes her as "a left-wing Israeli whose Facebook profile picture declares in Arabic and Hebrew that 'Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies'".
In 2005, she produced the film Ha'chavera shell Emile by director Nadav Lapid, which was selected for the competition of Cinéfondation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. She also contributed to the critically acclaimed 2008 animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir. In 2017, she directed and filmed a documentary series titled La Promise, which was broadcast on the YesDocu channel; it was since adapted into a documentary film.
Schwartz began working in the data industry in 2020, when she joined the Israeli company Vault AI as a Content Data Analyst. The same year, Schwartz directed and wrote the short film 39, which participated in the official competition at the Torino Film Festival. It was her first fiction film. In 2022, she directed, wrote, and produced the film Soviet Life - Zoya Cherkassky about the artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi. The film was broadcast on Kan 11 and received the 2022 Israeli Documentary Forum award, as well as the Short Film Award at the Master of Art Film Festival.
Since 2025 Schwarz is the head of the school of Film and Communication of Seminar Hakibuzim.
In 2023, Schwartz was hired by the New York Times. She received credit for co-writing or assisting on seven Times articles, most on sexual violence.