Biography

Born and raised in Israel. She served in the intelligence of the Israeli army as a translator and researcher of languages and electronics. She started studying in medical school, but left for the arts. She has 2 BA in psychology and the arts. She graduated 4 years of studying cinematography (directing and screen-writing) and still photography. Worked as a producer in Israel's biggest newspaper and as a photojournalist. Exhibited photographs and video art works in several individual and group exhibitions. Ganit wrote 2 children's books. She founded artists' cooperative. She worked as councilor for psychology programs, specializing in learning disabilities. Ganit is involved in 2 features productions: "The embryo who came in from the cold" - animated feature and "Beam me up, Sasha!" Israeli comedy, which will be the first feature film of the new Israeli Northern cinema and TV fund.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ganit Orian

Sister of actor and filmmaker Aylam Orian.

Name pronunciation: Ga-nii-t Or-yaa-n.

What does it mean to you to be an Israeli artist? In the past year I had a lot of contact with producers, managers and actors around the world trying to cast voice recording actors for my animation feature. I sometimes felt that being an Israeli was considered as coming from another far away planet or a tiny anonymous country. Yet sometimes I wondered if there is some resentment against me being an Israeli, especially while dealing with some European contacts. I'm proud to be Israeli, but I am not happy with the political situation Israel is in. I think there is a lot of ignorance regarding what really is going on in Israel and its neighbors. I hope things will change for the better, but I'm not very optimistic. I deal with universal themes and don't think in this case, art or any artist's boycott (which I really disagree with), can profoundly help. Someone in the government needs to be wiser.