documentary
(select credits)
writer / director / producer
PODIUM (in production)
LEBAN (in development)
SALLY VALLEY (in development)
DE JURE, DE FACTO (in development)
ADVOCATE (2019)
GYPSY DAVY (2011)
ASHKENAZ (2007)
500 DUNAM ON THE MOON (2002)
writer / producer
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! (Amber Fares, 2025)
editor
THE RED HOUSE (Tamar Tal Anati, 2017)
TAKE 3 (Ayelet Bechar, 2015)
directing mentor
I GOT OUT AT SIX (Livi Kessel, 2025)
THE GOVERNOR (Danel Elpeleg, 2024)
WOMEN IN THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR (Smadar Zamir, 2020)
BIRIM (Zvika Buchenspanner, in production)
TEREZ (Rozeen Bisharat, in production)
FREDA (Chen Zausmer, in production)
MAMA THERESA (Lea Gelfenstein, in production)
story consultant
HONEYDEW (Marco Bergonzi, Michael Petrolini, 2025)
BLUE BOX (Michal Weitz, 2021)
ROSHMIA (Salim Abu Jabal, 2015)
SOUND OF TORTURE (Karen Shayo, 2013)
INSIGNIFICANT THOUGHTS (Sharon Luzon, in production)
STANDING ALONE TOGETHER (Maayan Schwartz, in production)
HANDSHAKE (Sharone Lifshitz, in production)
GOOD ENOUGH (Gal Rosenblatt, in production)
FIELD producer / ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
WALL (Simone Bitton, 2004)
RAGING DOVE (Duki Dror, 2002)
CITIZEN BISHARA (Simone Bitton, 1999)
THE BOMBING (Simone Bitton, 1998)
SACRED STREET (Duki Dror, 1998)
WARP AND WEFT (Duki Dror, 1997)
CAFE NOAH (Duki Dror, 1996)
television
(select credits)
field producer
L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE. Programs no. 5 & 6 on Mahmoud Darwish and Aharon Appelfeld for TV5 France (2005)
ANOTHER ISRAEL. Reportage on Palestinian citizens of Israel for France 2’s “Un Oeil sur la Planete” (2004)
director / camera
CAPTE/ABSOLUT: ISM. Reportage on international activists in Israel/Palestine for ARTE’s weekly culture magazine. (2004)
camera / editor
DEMOCRACY NOW! hosted by Amy Goodman. (2001-2003)
photography/art
(select credits)
director
Cut it Out – Films Against Censorship (2018)
Spaces #2 — Spaces / Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2020)
producer
GREENLINE. Francis Alys. Moma/New York; Israel Museum/Jerusalem (2005)
WB. Sophie Ristelhueber. MAMCO/Geneva; Jeu de Pomme/Paris (2003)
jur0r
International Competition / Thessaloniki Documentary FF (2024)
Impact Competition / FIPAdoc (2023)
Music Film Competition / Krakow FF (2020)
International Competition / Dokufest (2020)
Documentary Competition / Jerusalem FF (2020)
Student Competition / March on Washington FF (2019)
Israel Documentary Forum Awards (2013-2015)
Student Documentary Competition / CoPro Campus (2014)
Documentary Competition / Jerusalem FF (2013)
Documentary Competition / Rehovoth International Women’s FF (2013)
Documentary Curation / Cinema South FF (2012)
advisor
NFCT Women's Documentary Lab (2023-2024)
Circle Women Doc Accelerator (2023)
Copro Women Doc Accelerator (2022)
CoPro Documentary Film Market (2012-2018)
curator
Professional Panels / CoPro Documentary Film Market (2015)
Tribute to Spanish Documentary / CoPro Documentary Film Market (2014)
Tribute to Arte / CoPro Documentary Film Market (2012)
professional affiliations
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2020 - present)
International Documentary Association (2019 - present)
European Film Academy (2019 - present)
Asia Pacific Screen Academy (2019 - present)
Film Fatales (2018 - present)
Israel Directors Guild (2008 - 2023)
Israel Documentary Forum (2004 - 2023)
European Documentary Network (2002-2005)
NY Women in Film and Television (2000-2002)
University Film and Video Association (1998-2000)
BEYOND FILM
EDITOR / TRANSLATOR
REPORTING FROM RAMALLAH: An Israeli Journalist (Amira Hass) in an Occupied Land. Semiotext(e) New York. (2003)
CITIES OF COLLISION: Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism. Edited by Philippe Misselwitz and Tim Rienitis; Published by Birkhauser Press Basel-Boston-Berlin. (2006)
MOTHER TONGUE: A Mizrahi Present that Stirs in the Thickets of an Arab Past. Curated by Tal Ben Zvi; Edited by Yigal Nizri; Published by Babel Tel Aviv. (2005)
SELF PORTRAIT: Palestinian Women’s Art. Curated by Tal Ben Zvi; Edited by Yael Lerer; Published by Andalus Tel Aviv. (2001)
additional links
Indiewire — Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #18: Rachel Leah Jones, “Gypsy Davy”
Women in Hollywood — Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Rachel Leah Jones – “Advocate”
Filmmaker Magazine — “Must Political Solidarity be Unconditional?”: Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche on Their Sundance Doc, Advocate
Free the Work — Director Rachel Leah Jones Demystifies Documentary Oscar Campaigns
True False — ‘Gypsy Davy’ Writer/Director Rachel Leah Jones talks Flamenco and Filmmaking
Cineuropa — Rachel Leah Jones, Lea Tsemel — Director and protagonist of Advocate
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