Monday, January 23, 2017

2017 IREPRESENT DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL LAGOS ANNOUNCES FILMMAKER JIHAN EL-TAHRI AS SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOUR


Ms. JIHAN EL-TAHRI

The 2017 IREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival is proud to announce that our guest of Honour will be the award-winning internationally renowned French/Egyptian filmmaker, Ms. JIHAN EL-TAHRI. Each day of the festival will feature a special highlight of her major films on the politics and history of Africa’s march from colonialism to democracy. The star selections to be screened include “CUBA – An African Odyssey,” “Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs” and “Behind the Rainbow.”
Each film will be followed by an extensive session of “JIHAN IN CONVERSATION” where she will be talking about how she builds her stories around archival resources. Jihan will also teach a Masterclass in the Producers-Roundtable segment of the festival.
Jihan El Tahri is an award winning director, writer, producer and visual artist. She is an Egyptian and French national, who started her career as a Foreign Correspondent covering Middle East Politics. In 1990 she began directing and producing documentaries for the BBC, PBS, Arte and other international broadcasters. Since then she has produced and directed numerous documentaries, her most recent is “Nasser” part of this year’s official selection at Toronto International Festival. She has also Produced and directed the acclaimed documentaries “Behind the Rainbow”, “ Cuba, an African Odyssey”, as well as the Emmy nominated House of Saud. Her writings include “Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat” (Grasset) and “Israel and the Arabs, The 50 Years war” (Penguin).

El-Tahri is also engaged in various associations and institutions working with African cinema. She has served as treasurer of the Guild of African Filmmakers in the Diaspora, Regional Secretary of the Federation of Pan African Cinema (FEPACI) and as an Advisor on Focus Feature’s Africa first Program.

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