Muriel Naim is a Director & Writer of film, television and theatre, emerging from Tel-Aviv's Art & literature scene. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Muriel graduated with honors from Thelma Yellin School of Arts, where she mentored under Israeli-Lithuanian theater director Arthur Kogan. While studying in the MFA Film Directing program at CalArts, Muriel wrote, directed and shot the five-minute short JAVIER. The film was selected to open the 2016 Annual Film Directors Showcase at REDCAT, and has since been distributed to several international companies. She recently graduated from the Directing program at the AFI Conservatory, where she was awarded the Irwin & Sheila Allen Scholarship and mentored under Oscar-winning Director/Writer Asghar Farhadi. Her film Janek / Bastard has awarded her Best Directing award and the Bali Film Festival, and is currently screening in a few international festivals.
Muriel's films delve into the cores of the human condition, explore taboo, emotion and transgression through visceral storytelling, and evoke the classical narrative structure.
