Doing Time Doing Vipassana - Full official version
Early life
Ariel was born in 1958 in Israel.
Career
In 1978 she moved to New York City and spent nine years studying and working as a musician and a photographer.
In 1980 she received a diploma from the Germain School of Photography in New York City. From 1983 to 1984 she was the Managing Director of the International Production Manual - The Producer’s Masterguide.
Between the years of 1987 and 1995 she lived and worked in Asia.
In 1995, Ms. Ariel returned to Israel where she established the production company Karuna Films Ltd., together with Ayelet Menahemi. Since then she has produced and co-directed several documentaries, among them the award winning Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (1997), which made a great impact on prison systems all over the world, and won the Pass Award of The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (USA). In 2005, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana was re-released for screenings all over the USA. Ms. Ariel’s film, It’s About Time won the Best Documentary and Best Script prizes at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, the 2002 Japan Prize for Best Documentary, and participated in INPUT 2002, IDFA, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
Her films have been broadcast on PBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, the National Geographic Channel, and the Discovery Channel.
Between 2012 -2013 she worked as the COO of Hostr, a web platform that curated talent for live performances in home venues. Since 2014 she is the Director of Communication of Prof. Yuval Noah Harari.
Filmography
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana; written and directed by Eilona Ariel and Ayelet Menahemi
Israel, 1997, 70 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English Subtitles
It's About Time; by Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel
Israel, 2001, 54 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English Subtitles
The Compass
Pilgrimage to the Sacred Land
Global Pagoda
Beyond the Gardens (a film about Baron de Rothschild)
It's About Time
NHK JAPAN PRIZE
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM CONTEST - 2002
Grand Prix and the Governor of Tokyo Prize for Best Documentary
JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - July 2001
Wonlgin Prize for Best Documentary Lipper Prize for Best Script
Jerusalem Intl. Film Festival - July 2001
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) - September 2001
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) - November 2001
Goteborg Film Festival (Sweden) - January 2002
Venice International Television Festival - March 2002
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival - March 2002
Wisconsin Film Festival - April 2002
Mediawave Film Festival, Hungary - April 2002
Israel Film Festival, U.S.A - April–June 2002
Stockholm Jewish Film Festival - May 2002
INPUT 2002, Rotterdam - May 2002
Kalamata International Documentary Film Festival - Greece - October 2002
Docupolis, Barcelona - October 2002
JAPAN PRIZE contest, Tokyo - November 2002
Boston Jewish Film Festival - November 2002
Washington Jewish Film Festival - December 2002
Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival - December 2002
Tucson Jewish Film Festival - January 2003
ISRATIM - Paris Israeli Film Festival - January 2003
Allentown Jewish Film Festival - March 2003
Minneapolis Festival of Jewish Film - March 2003
THE PROMISE - THE LAND festival, Linz, Austria - April 2003
New Jersey Jewish Film Festival - April 2003
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival - May 2003
Channel 8 - Israel, September 2001
YLE TV - Finland, October 2002
NHK-Japan, November 2002
SIC - Portugal, October 2002
CUNY-TV - New York, USA, Fall 2003
Continental Airlines - October 2002
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
Golden Spire - San Francisco International Film Festival, 1998
Silver Plaque - INTERCOM, Chicago 1998
NCCD Pass Award - The National Council On Crime And Delinquency, USA 1998
Finalist Award - New York Film Festivals, 1998
Silver Winner Award - Crested Butte Reel Festival, Colorado, USA 2000
Gold Illumination Award - Crested Butte Reel Festival, Colorado, USA 2000
PBS - USA 1998
NHK - Japan
INFINITY - Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama
YLE - Finland
Channel 8 - Israel
TV Poland
TSI - Switzerland
DR TV - Denmark
RTÉ - Ireland
ITN - Sri Lanka
Seattle Public TV - U.S.A.2000
World Link TV - U.S.A.
The Dish Network - U.S.A.
Channel 11 - Thailand
SHAW TV CALGARY - U.S.A. 2002
Multicultural Channel 78 - U.S.A. 2002
Shaw TV Edmonton - U.S.A. 2002
DocuNoga Film Festival - Israel 1997
San Francisco International Film Festival - USA, 1998
New York International Film Festival - USA, 1998
Santa Barbara International Film Festival - USA, 1998
Intercom - Chicago, Illinois 1998
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival - Taiwan, 1998
Media Wave - Hungary, 1999
Ethno Film Festival - Berlin, Germany 1999
Bombay International Film Festival - Bombay, India, 1999
Portland Women Directors Film Festival - Oregon, U.S.A.1999
Crested Butte Reel Festival - Colorado, U.S.A 2000
Unesco 2nd Festival of Women Creators Of the Two Seas - Greece, 2000
Buddhism in Film (Caligari FilmBuhne) - Wiesbaden, Germany 1999
Women in Buddhism - Cologne, Germany 2000
Buddhist Film Festival - Wien, Austria, 2000
Parabola Film & Video Festival - New York, U.S.A., 2000
Human Rights Nights Film Festivals - Bologna, Italy, 27–30 March 2003
Buddhist Film Festival - Ulan Batar, Mongolia, 2004
