Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy

Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy is a Palestinian filmmaker, video artist and film programmer based in Montreal. He graduated from the MFA studio Arts : Film Production program at Concordia University. His work is interested in power relations and how they are maintained and mediated through moving images.

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Nada El-Omari

Nada El-Omari is a writer and director currently based in Toronto. Of Palestinian and Egyptian origin and raised in Montreal, Quebec, her work and research interests include the intergenerational transmissions of memories, post-memory, displacement and the stories of identity through a poetic, hybrid lens. She holds a BFA in Film Production from York University where she is now completing her MFA in Film.

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A Palestinian-Canadian, born and raised in Jordan. Independent filmmaker and freelance photojournalist Annie Sakkab is based in the Middle East and Canada. As a visual storyteller, Annie is drawn to exploring the customs, lifestyles, and values that characterize her subjects. Annie seeks long-form narrative with a focus on women’s issues and social justice. In her work, she raises questions of identity and awareness of the experiences of exile, uprooting, and displacement among marginalized groups. Annie's first short documentary Hollie’s Dress, which had its World Premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival 2020 in collaboration with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), is an official selection in 29 international festivals and has won numerous awards including the Golden Sheaf Award at Yorkton Film Festival, Canada, Life Best Short Documentary at Forest City Film Festival, Award of Excellence at Canada Shorts Film Festival, and an Honourable Mention at Women’s Voice Now Film Festival. Annie is represented by Middle East Images and is a member of Boreal Collective, Women Photograph, and a board member at True North Photo Journal (TPNJ).

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Khalil Mozian

Khalil Mozian is a Palestinian Cinema Director. He has a Master’s Degree in Film Directing from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Khalil directed many award-wining films such as Sara (2014), which won the fiction film award at the Egypt Film Festival in 2015, alongside the cinematography award at the Dhaka Film Festival in 2015.

Khalil directed many Documentary films, Fiction films, and Television. He directed a short fictional film titled, Mashoo Matook which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Khalil is a professional film director who has an excellent sense of storytelling, and a great eye for expressing vibrant art through aesthetic means. He has also served several leadership roles in the film industry, most significantly, he’s known for founding Gaza’s Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival, and managing it in 2015-2019, which gained world-wide attention.

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فيلم ماشو ماتوك
SARA 2014 Official Trailer#1 gaza Palestine lama film
Gaza 36mm
Red Carpet Film Festival Promo - YouTube

Mohamed Abuzayed

Mohamed Abuzayed is a Palestinian Canadian living in London, Canada. He is still searching for the purpose of life through observation, meditation, and prayer, while listening, reading, writing and learning.
Abuzayed loves his small family, bigger families and real friends, who are not easy to find, and not easy to enter into his heart. He loves art, cinema, theatre and poetry, and his new passion for cooking.

Writings and Writing Experiences:
⁃ A musical for children in Arabic called “Narrate or Sleep”: نحكي ولاننام
⁃ Children songs.
⁃ Short stories.
⁃ Articles.
⁃ Some poems in Arabic.
⁃ Some poems in English.

And the journey continues.

IG @abuzayed.mj
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اغنيه للاطفال, يمكن احنا صغار, رولا ومي
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