Awards
Kavana Entertainment Inc. is engaged across International and Hollywood Film and TV. The Kavana team has won awards ranging from an Oscar Nomination to guilds and festival awards, and have shared knowledge on prestigious panels & lectures at universities around the world.
“Poignant, surprising and deftly reawakens questions about ‘patriarchy’ “ - Variety
“Such a terrific consciousness-raiser…it is virtually impossible not to identify with Ohayon’s interviewees” - LA Times
“Poignant, surprising and deftly reawakens questions about ‘patriarchy’ “ - Variety “Such a terrific consciousness-raiser…it is virtually impossible not to identify with Ohayon’s interviewees” - LA Times
“Michèle Ohayon’s Cowboy del Amor turns out to be one of the sweetest, funniest and most enjoyable nonfiction films you are likely to see this year.” -Observer
“Filled with humor and surprises” - TV Guide
“Michèle Ohayon’s Cowboy del Amor turns out to be one of the sweetest, funniest and most enjoyable nonfiction films you are likely to see this year.” -Observer “Filled with humor and surprises” - TV Guide
“Irrepressibly moving without being sentimental” - LA Times
“Not even Hollywood could invent a romance more extraordinary than this one.” - New York Daily Paper
“Irrepressibly moving without being sentimental” - LA Times “Not even Hollywood could invent a romance more extraordinary than this one.” - New York Daily Paper
Michèle Ohayon, The Founder
Michèle Ohayon is the CEO and Founder of Kavana Entertainment Inc, based in Los Angeles, with a mission to produce quality and entertaining content that contributes to healing the world.
Michèle Ohayon is an award winning director, writer and producer. Born in Casablanca, Michèle graduated from Tel Aviv University (Film & Television) after winning awards for her film Pressure. In 1987, she moved to Los Angeles, where she went on to direct many acclaimed documentary features such as: It Was a Wonderful Life (1992, PBS), Colors Straight Up (1997, PBS/Netflix) nominated for an Academy Award, Directors Guild of America, and Spirit award among other awards, Cowboy del Amor (2005, Showtime/Netflix) winner SXSW Jury and Audience Awards, nominated for WGA award, Steal a Pencil for Me (2007, Netflix) winner Jerusalem Film Festival and Sonoma Film Festival audience award, and S.O.S./State of Security (2010) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.
In 2013, Ohayon made the tribute film for Angelina Jolie's Governors award for the Academy of Motion Pictures, narrated by Morgan Freeman. In 2016, Michèle was a supervising producer on CNN's Believer, and completed her documentary Cristina (Netflix/ Palm Springs ShortsFest). In 2017, she produced the award-winning film (Big Sky Fest winner) 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice.
Michèle directed and produced the Netflix Original Documentary Strip Down, Rise Up (2021) and produced HBO’s The Unbreakable Tatiana Suarez (2024), now streaming on Max. She is currently the producer for the documentaries Women Are Sacred, about missing Native American women, and The Diamond Approach.
Michèle is also a fiction film writer with numerous screenplays developed by major studios such as MGM, FOCUS FEATURES, and STARZ cable. She has been a guest speaker/lecturer at various schools and colleges, including UCLA, AFI, USC, UVA, Georgetown, Wesleyan, Stanford, Chapman, Kenyon and more. Michèle received twice the Artist's Grant from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and was recognized for her fiction writing in the Chesterfield Writing Competition.
Michèle is one of the founders of Cinewomen, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences where she was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the International Films and serves on the Documentary Branch. She is also a member of the WGA and the DGA.
To read more, visit micheleohayon.com