Writer Director
Hagit studied filmmaking at Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv before earning an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles, where she was awarded the Mary Pickford Scholarship for Outstanding Female Director. Foreign Body, her AFI thesis film, was selected for the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
After returning to Israel, Hagit worked as a screenwriter on numerous television series, including HaAlufa (Season 1, HOT), Ne’elamim (Season 3, Nickelodeon/HOT), winner of the 2020 Israeli Academy Award for Best Youth Drama, and False Flag (Season 3, Keshet). More recently, she wrote for Seasons 3–7 of the children’s series Shakshuka (Kan) and for Operation Rebirth, a French political drama created by Radu Mihaileanu, produced by Pie Films and Calt Productions and developed for Canal+. She also served as head writer on the third season of the youth series El Atzmi for Nickelodeon/yes!
Hagit has also worked as a reader and editor for Yedioth Books and has written about film and television for Portfolio, an online arts and culture magazine.
Her original series Ad HaShamayim was selected for the 2019 UGC Writers Campus at Series Mania in Lille, France. Another series she is developing, the French-Israeli co-production In 1942 (White Lion Films), was selected for the 2019–2020 France-Israel Co-Residency, in partnership with the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, CNC, and Series Mania, and was later presented at the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions at Series Mania 2021.
Her feature project Sheketa received a development grant from the Rabinovich Foundation in 2016, participated in the pitching event at the 2018 Haifa International Film Festival, and was selected for a women filmmakers’ development lab in 2020.
Inappropriate Behavior, a dramedy series created by Hagit, is currently in development with the U.S.-based production company New Harbor Productions.
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