Filmmaker, lecturer, and Human rights activist. With over 20 years of experience in directing and writing award-winning documentary films exploring identity, gender, and human rights.

Her acclaimed works – including “Write Down, I Am An Arab,” “Three Times Divorced,” and “Lady Kul El-Arab” – have been screened and awarded at major international festivals such as Hot Docs, IDFA, and Docaviv, as well as in universities and museums worldwide

Based in Jaffa–Tel Aviv, Israel

Her debut feature film Cinema Sabaya (Green Productions, 2022), won Best Picture at the Ophir Awards, the Israeli Academy of Film and Television prizes. The film has received five awards in all - As well as its Best Picture Prize, it also won Best Director for Rotem and was Israel’s official Oscars Entry 2023. The film also won Best Picture Award and .Audience Award at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.
Her diploma film "Staring Match" was screened in festivals all over the world, including: San Sebastian, Montreal, Munich and won the Grand Prix award at the Hangzhou Festival in China, Best Screenplay Award at Tel Aviv Student Film Festival, and an Honorable Mention at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Orit wrote and directed two short fiction films – "You Remain Silent", that was a part of the Abraham Heffner tribute "Voice Over" and premiered in Sarajevo and Jerusalem Film Festival 2018 and The MOMA, and "Veil" that .was selected to various festivals around the world.

Film and TV director, creator, and editor.
His first feature-length film as director, Next to Her (Hebrew: At Li Layla), premiered at the 2014 Cannes Festival, and went on to win numerous awards at festivals worldwide.
On television, he directed the series Normali (2020) and Indel (2024), for which he also served as co-creator and lead editor.
His editing and directing credits include the films Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf and HaMashgichim; as well as the TV series Ish Hashuv Me’od, Shababnikim, Yeled Ra, Yeled Hara, and Tehran, among others.

Hagemann was born in the Rhine-Ruhr area in Germany and entered the film industry during his university studies (History, German Literature).
Since 1989 he produced and co-produced with his own company numerous independent fiction- and documentary-films for the international market, amongst them films by Hal Hartley, Bela Tarr, Alexandr Sokurov, Peter Bogdanovich, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Roger Spottiswoode, Eddie Berger, Susan Gluth and others.

From 2010-2025 he held the professorship "Film- and TV-Producing" at the Film University Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Martin Hagemann is member of the European and the German Film Academy and serves in different film funding commissions and regulatory boards of the German film industry. Currently he is producing a film about the German singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann (director Jens Meurer).