FILM & MOVING IMAGE.

NEO NAHDA (2022). writer, director. 12 min.

* Screening. March 2023. BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Festival, London. Official Selection.
* Screening. March 2023. AWAN Festival, London. Official Selection.
* Screening. June 2023. Reference.Point, London. Pride Month Curated Screening.
* Screening. July 2023. Safar Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
* Screening. July 2023. Safar Film Festival, HOME, Manchester.
* Screening. August 2023. Soura Film Festival. Berlin, Germany.
* Screening. September 2023. Les Mains Gauches. Videodrome2. Marseille, France.
* Screening. September 2023. Short Film Focus. Close-Up Cinema. London, UK.
* Screening. September 2023. Encouters Film Festival. WATERSHED. Britol, UK.
* Screening. September 2023. Wimbledon International Short Film Festival. London, UK.
* Screening. September 2023. MIX Milan. Milan, Italy.
* Screening. October 2023. MIX CPH. Copenhagen, Denmark.
* Screening. October 2023. HIQFF. Hamburg, Germany.
* Screening. October 2023. MIZNA Arab Film Festival. Minneapolis, USA.
* Screening. November 2023. MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada.
* Screening. November 2023. Meziprata. Prague, Czech Republic.
* Screening. November 2023. Meziprata. Brno, Czech Republic.
* Screening. November 2023. Bizarre @ La Folie. Paris, France.
* Screening. November 2023. SET Film Festival. London, UK.
* Screening. December 2023. Queer Cinema for Palestine @ Rio Cinema. London, UK.
* Screening. December 2023. J’en Suis J’en Reste @ L’Hybride. Lille, France.
* Screening. January 2024. London Short Film Festival. London, UK.
* Screening. January 2024. MENA Film Festival. Vancouver, Canada.
* Screening. March 2024. Ratita Films. Barcelona, Spain.
* Screening. March 2024. Glasgow Short Film Festival. Glasgow, UK.
* Screening. April 2024. Badgam Film Festival. Toulouse, France.
* Screening. April 2024. Alfilm. Berlin, Germany.
* Screening. April 2024. Women+ Film Festival. Denver, Colorado, USA.
* Screening. May 2024. IMMAGINARIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Rome, Italy.
* Screening. May 2024. London Lesbian Film Festival. Ontario, Canada.

MRS EL ARABY (2022). filmmaker. 1 min.
* Screening. March 2023. Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse. XXVI International Encounters Traverse.
* Screening. October 2022. VIDEOAKTION #3, Berlin. Curated by “attaque(e)r le réel”.
* Screening. September – October 2022. MIZNA Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis + online.
* Screening. September 2022. Encounters Festival, Bristol + online. DepicT! Competition.
* Screening. August 2021. BFI Southbank, London. “Where Are You Really From” shorts program by T A P E Collective.
* Screening. March 2021. Online. MENA Arts UK. “We Are MENA” launch event.

WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG (2021) artist/filmmaker.
* Online. March 2021. Divine Zine Publication. Commissioned by Sido Lansari.

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES.

* JANUARY 2024. Runner Up Best UK Short Film For Neo Nahda. London Short Film Festival.
* OCTOBER 2023. Special Mention For Neo Nahda. Meziprata Film Festival.
* MAY 2022. MORE FILMS Award. Support by the BFI Network + British Council for Neo Nahda.
* JANUARY 2021. MENA Arts UK. Winner of the “We Are MENA” commission competition.
* SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2020. Arab British Center. Safar Development Residency.

SELECTED PRESS.

Dalia Al-Dujaili, WePresent
Joy Majdalani, L’Orient Le Jour.
Colette Khalaf, L’Orient Le Jour.
Lamia Barakat, Azeema.
Kemi Alemoryu, Gal-dem.
Anna Mayers, Close-up Culture.

To earn a living, I also work in production on other people’s films in various capacities, recent credits include:

post production coordinator: WE MIGHT REGRET THIS (ROUGHCUT TV FOR THE BBC AND VILLAGE ROADSHOW) THINGS YOU SHOULD have DONE (ROUGHCUT TV FOR THE BBC), JUICE (VAL TV For the BBC), HENPOCALYPSE (VAL TV FOR THE BBC) girl (2023, sundance) dir. adura onashile
second unit field producing: asteroid city (2023) dir. wes anderson
producer's assistant: the french dispatch (2021) dir. wes anderson, isle of dogs (2018) dir. wes anderson.