Michal Aviad (Hebrew: מיכל אביעד; born Jerusalem) is an Israeli director, script writer, producer and senior lecturer at the Department of Cinema and Television, Tel Aviv University.

[3][4] In November 2019, Aviad was rewarded one of Israel's most prestigious awards, the Landau Award for Arts and Sciences, endowed by Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, which cited her as "one of the most important directors in the history of Israeli cinema".

The film received several prizes and was the first to be broadcast within the prestigious documentary slot POV (Point of View) on the American public network PBS.

(1995, 60 min, direction) Produced by Amit Goren, this documentary explores Israeli male culture from a woman's point of view.

[10] For My Children (2002, 66 min, production and direction) This is personal film about the history and events in the life of one family of immigrants and refugees as seen through the prism of the first days of the new Intifada.

[11] Invisible (2011, 90 min, direction) AKA Lo Roim Alaich Ronit Elkabetz and Evgenia Dodina star in this story where two women are brought together over a shared trauma; they were both victims of a serial rapist twenty years earlier.

The Women Pioneers (2013, 51-min, produced by Eden Productions) AKA Ha'Chalutzot this documentary made of archives, uncovers the passion, struggle and pain of women pioneers who came to Palestine a hundred years ago to create a new world and a new woman.

The film is about an ambitious young mother, who aspires to succeed at her new job without paying the price that her boss demands.