Tsipi Reibenbach

Tsipi (Tsipora) Reibenbach (Hebrew: ציפי רייבנבך; born 1950) is an Israeli Film director, producer and screenwriter. Most of her work consists of documentary films dealing with painful issues in the Israeli society such as The Holocaust and Bereavement. Recipient of the Science and Arts Minister of Israel prize (1996) for directors and screenwriters. Her film "Choice and Destiny" is one of the most decorated documentary films made by the Israeli industry, among the notable prizes the film won are the Grand Prize in the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 1995, two Prizes in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 1994, and the Scam award (1994) in Cinéma du Réel festival in Paris, France. She received the DAAD scholarship in 2006 as a distinguished Israeli filmmaker. Tsipi was born in Poland and immigrated to Israel as a baby in 1950 with her parents, both Holocaust survivors. She graduated a B.Sc. in applied mathematics and physics from Tel-Aviv University in 1969; after graduation she served as a teacher of mathematics, physics and computers in a high school at her hometown, Lod. In the Yom Kippur War (October 1973) she lost her first husband Yitzhak, chemical engineer graduate of the Technion. He was an officer, company commander in the Israeli armored infantry and fell in the battle of the Golan Heights. After his death she turned to film school and graduated with a BFA in Film, Television & Animation from Tel-Aviv University in 1980 and started film making. In 1981 she studied Business management in Tel-Aviv university. She is a mother of three children and a grandmother of four grandchildren. Currently living in Tel-Aviv, Israel.