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Bio

Carol Polakoff grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and studied at the University of Pennsylvania.
After working as a photojournalist in Jerusalem, she went to the London International Film School.
Returning to Israel, she worked as
a television journalist for ABC. Moving to LA she worked on movies, TV and documentaries. Her award winning documentaries as
Producer/Writer/Director include: CUBA: IN THE SHADOW OF DOUBT and THE CLOSING DOOR: AN INVESTIGATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY, both for PBS. Her television work has been nominated for 16 Emmys, and she has received two Director's Guild awards. She produced TV movies for ABC,“Sexual Advances” on sexual harassment in the workplace, and “Held Hostage” about the first
American hostage taken in Beirut. She made a documentary on the eve of the peace accord between
the Palestinians and the Israelis, subsequently the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority
honored her film and her photos by inviting her to act as an election observer to the first Palestinian Elections in 1996.
She has shown her work as a photographer at Mois de la Photo/Paris and other venues throughout the world. Her screenwriting includes the adaptation of the book “Love and Terror” (The Last
Night) by Alan Jolis-a romantic thriller set during the French Revolution which is in development at Amazon Studios.
In 2013, she launched Viewfinder Pictures, and is based in Italy.
She is currently writing and will direct the feature film adaptation of "Speak Sunlight” by Alan Jolis, a
coming of age story set in Paris and Pamplona during the Franco regime.