Episode 8 - Documentary Producer Elhum Shakerifar

A conversation with Elhum Shakerifar, BAFTA nominated producer and
curator, producing and distributing documentaries through her
company Hakawati. In this episode, we discuss the importance of
storytelling through documentary film, finding truth and creating a
space of reality, raising important questions to audiences, and the
future of filmmaking amidst the current climate.  Speaker bio:
Elhum is a BAFTA nominated producer and curator, producing and
distributing documentaries through her company Hakawati with the
core ethos that a good story is all in the telling. Recent credits
include winner of the BIFA for Best Documentary winning Almost
Heaven (Carol Salter, 2017), BFI/Sundance funded Even
When I Fall (Sky Neal and Kate McLarnon, 2017) and Arts
Council funded ISLAND (Steven Eastwood, 2017). In 2015,
her BIFA, BAFTA and EFA nominated production A Syrian Love
Story (Sean McAllister, 2015) won a Cinema for Peace Justice
Award, screened in UK and European parliaments and in over 70
countries. Her work has been broadcast internationally and screened
at festivals including Berlinale, IDFA and Rotterdam. Elhum is a
programme advisor for London Film Festival for films from MENA and
Iran, and Film Curator for Shubbak, festival of contemporary Arab
culture. In 2017, she was nominated for the Arab British Centre’s
Award for Culture and was awarded the Women in Film and TV Factual
Award 2017 and was one of Screen International’s 2018 #Brit50
Producers on the Rise. Elhum is also a lecturer at the Free
University of Berlin and a research fellow of the Department of
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