Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to immigrant parents — survivors of the Holocaust — she completed high school and the army in Israel before she moved to the United States. She studied painting, sculpture, art history, photography and film at A Midrasha Le Morim Leomanut Art School in Israel (1985–1986), got a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University Tisch School of the Arts (1990) and is an Master of Fine Arts candidate in documentary film at the Maine Media College.
Böhm is fluent in Spanish, English and Hebrew. Film career
The film has screened internationally at film festivals in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Israel. Böhm wrote, directed, produced and co-edited Raquel: a marked woman (2014) which has screened in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.
Synopsis: Raquel"s story is from another time, but resonates today.
In the early 20th century, thousands of Eastern European Jewish women were lured to Argentina and forced into prostitution. Others gave up. Not Raquel.
Bravely, she exposed her oppressors. The film has been honored with a Bronze Telly Award — Non-Broadcast Film/Video — History/Biography (2015).
Other awards include: Silver Prize, Robinson International Short Film Competition (2015), Best Short Documentary/Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival (2015), Founders Award: The Joyce Forum/San Diego Jewish Film Festival (2015), Best in Fest Selection/ Palm Springs International ShortFest (2014) and Best Short Documentary/Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (2014).
She also directed, produced, wrote and edited Voice-Less, a short experimental film that screened at many United States film festivals.
Her first feature-length documentary, Passages (2000), which she wrote, directed and produced with her company Böhm Productions, won the Best Documentary award at the Woodstock Film Festival. Böhm also wrote, directed, produced and co-edited The Longing: The Forgotten Jews of South America (2007), which has won numerous awards including Best Documentary at the Long Island Latino International Film Festival, a Telly Award for Religion and Spirituality, and Best Latino Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival.
