Director and screenwriter Talya Lavie won the Israeli Academy Award for writing and directing Zero Motivation (2014), an Israeli blockbuster that received multiple international awards, including Best Film at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Nora Ephron Prize. The film broke the Israeli box office record of the past two decades, won six Israeli Academy Awards, was awarded Best Film by the Israeli Film Critics Association and selected to be one of the three Best Israeli Films of All Times by the most widely read newspaper in Israel.

Lavie graduated with merit from the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem after studying in the animation department at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. Her short film, Sliding Flora (2004), screened at New York City’s MoMA, Paris’s Louvre, and in over 40 film festivals worldwide. Her other short film, The Substitute (2006), received several international awards, notably the Audience Award in the Berlinale. Honeymood (2020) is her second feature film.