She served two years in the Israeli Defense Force, tried her hand at medical school and studied photography in Paris, before moving to New York City to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
[1] Rosenthal currently works as a freelance director and animator in New York.
She frequently collaborates with Israeli author Etgar Keret.
As an NYU student she created the award-winning short film Crazy Glue (1998), which is based on an Etgar Keret story.
In 2005 she directed A Buck's Worth, a stop-motion short film based on another Keret story.