[1] She is known for producing documentary films on political topics, especially those involving Palestine, the Mizrahi experience in Israel, women's issues, colonialism, racism, and more; and for melding her business with activism, promoting filmmaking in the geographical and social periphery of Israel, and creating access to Palestinian cinema.
[3] Later, in 2002, when news of the fate of some of the then-children who were part of the theater project came to light, the two created the film Arna's Children, produced by Trabelsi and directed by Mer-Khamis, following Arna's political and human rights activism and the stories of the children involved, three of whom died in various circumstances of resistance to the occupying Israeli army.
She then produced many other documentaries, most of which deal with political and social issues: the occupation of Palestine, women's struggles with various types of oppression, Ashkenazim and Mizrahim,[8] drugs, and the Holocaust.
The film dealt with the way the hegemonic Ashkenazi culture is "unmarked" or invisible in Israel, whereas every other group is "ethnic" and a minority, even though numerically Ashkenazim are not the majority.
[13] After many years of trying to "pass" in Ashkenazi culture, Trabelsi began exploring her own identity as a Mizrahi woman after meeting Juliano Mer-Khamis, and being exposed to the Palestinian struggle and experience.
[2] After embarking on her personal journey in this regard, she became especially involved in exploring and drawing a connection between Mizrahi and Palestinian identities and experience in her work and in her activism as well, two areas that she sees as one and the same.
[2] When she founded her production company, her stated mission was to create and promote films that are politically engaged with the injustices being perpetrated against Palestinians, as well and other social justice issues.
[14] In February 2000, Trabelsi and Daoud Kuttab initiated and led the international human rights film festival "Basic Trust" in Tel Aviv, Nazareth and Ramallah, with artistic directors Judd Neeman and George Khalife.
The forum included organizations such as the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum and the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition and other social organizations, as well as individual activists including Vicki Shiran, Osnat Trabelsi, Yehuda Shenhav, Yossi Yonah, Judd Neeman, Amit Goren, Ephraim Reiner, Avner Ben-Amos and other artists and political activists.
The struggle lasted for about a year until an agreement was reached with Ehud Barak's government to create an experimental channel, but in the end, the plans fell through with the beginning of the Second Intifada.
[18] In 2003, together with Dr. Moshe Bahar, Tikva Levy and Avital Mozes-Haim, she created the "Films from the Dark Side" project, a series of twelve meetings on various socio-political issues, but from a Mizrahi, anti-establishment and anti-colonial perspective.