Hanna Azoulay Hasfari

In 2015, she was invited to speak at the United Nations headquarters in New York, in honor of International Women's Day, where she presented a screening of her film Orange People, in condemnation of child marriage.

Upon completion of her high school education, Azoulay-Hasfari served her compulsory service in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) in the military theater.

She became one of the founding members of the Simple Theater Group, a multi-cultural team that enabled artists to express their cultural worldview and to become the central focus of their projects.

[10][11][12] After the successful completion of her work writing the screenplay for "Sh’chur”, she was one of the founders of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition,[2] and then later took a year to return to her studies, where she focused on sociology and anthropology.

As a result, she decided to learn about her own family history and began writing screenplays and working on movies that tell about the lives of invisible women, and incorporate untold stories that revolve around social justice issues.

Examples of her work that bring light to social justice issues are films such as Sh’chur, Orange People, Proletariat, and My Little Empire, which highlight struggles experienced by marginalized women.

[16] Azoulay is one of the founders of an NGO called The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow New-Discourse, which works on social justice issues through the means of media and alternative performances.

She continues to work on social justice issues as a pro bono chairperson of Beit Ruth, an Israeli organization focused on providing at-risk girls and young women opportunities to excel academically, emotionally and physically.