Anat Schwartz

Anat Schwartz (Hebrew: עֲנָת שְׁווַרְץ; born 1978) is an Israeli filmmaker, television director, data analyst, and freelance writer.^[1] Her films and the films she worked on, comprising mostly short documentary and narrative films, have been screened at major festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival. She gained significant media attention outside of her film work in 2024, in the context of broader controversies around the media coverage of the Israel–Hamas war, as one of the authors of "Screams Without Words"—a New York Times article about sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October attack on Israel. which concluded that such violence was "weaponized" by Hamas—which was heavily criticized for the quality of its reporting, which further led to a social media controversy and dissention within the paper.