Shirli Michalevicz
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Tribeca All Access® 2009
About
Shirli Michalevicz is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, with concentration in directing and screenwriting. She has mentored young girls in a Manhattan homeless shelter through Art Start, and has worked with youth at risk as part of the HBO Young Filmmakers Lab. Michalevicz currently leads a cinema therapy group with mental health patients at Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center in Jerusalem, where she is also filming. She is currently working on the feature documentary Borderline.
Borderline
A group of forgotten Palestinian and Israeli mentally ill patients live side by side within an asylum surrounded by a society that lives in a state of conflicting “madness”.