RONIT AVNI BIOGRAPHY

Award-winning filmmaker, human rights advocate, and media strategist, Ronit Avni is the Founder and Executive Director of Just Vision, a non-profit organization that researches, documents, and creates media about Palestinian and Israeli grassroots leaders in nonviolence and peace building. Ronit’s latest award-winning documentary film, Budrus, shows how a Palestinian village was saved from destruction by a father-daughter team, a powerful contingent of women, a village coming together, and Israelis and Palestinians joining forces. Her Majesty Queen Noor said this about the film, “[Budrus] gives an enormous amount of hope… It’s a story which will have an impact and can help bring [about] change.