Dana Blankstein Cohen

Dana Blankstein Cohen (born 1981) is an Israeli film director, producer and executive. Born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, while her parents were temporarily living there, she was raised in Israel and studied film at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, where she directed two shorts, one of which, Camping, took part in the 2007 Berlinale. She served for nearly four years as director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television before being appointed executive director of the Sam Spiegel school in 2019, and she is now its CEO. Under her leadership the school has widened its international collaborations, including its International Film Lab for emerging filmmakers, and in 2020 it signed an agreement with the Abu Dhabi Film Commission. She is a member of the European Film Academy.