Monica Haim

Writer, Director & Producer Monica Haim was born in Bogota, Colombia, grew up in Miami, and lived in New York for 15 years. Today, she splits her time between Tel Aviv, Miami and Brooklyn, and works as a freelance writer and documentary filmmaker.

Monica is the writer, producer, and director of the independent documentary, Awake Zion, which explores the little-known relationship between Rastafari and Judaism and is due out later this year.

As a writer she has collaborated with personalities such as Ricky Martin, Jorge & Laura Posada, and David Archuleta, with whom she wrote a New York Times best-seller.

Monica was also a four-time producer of Mystery Diagnosis, an award-winning medical documentary series on Discovery Health. She was a writer and field producer for Edible Adventures, a Travel Channel pilot about organic food and sustainable agriculture in Costa Rica.

As a professional ghostwriter, Monica has been published by HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Chronicle Books. In 2001 Monica was also published in an anthology, 9/11 8:48am: Documenting America’s Worst Tragedy (Blue Ear Press, 2001), and her essay was adapted for the London theatrical premiere, Voices from September 11th, which ran at the Old Vic on September 11th, 2002.

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