Asmae El Moudir ( ar, أسماء المدير; born 16 February 1990 in
Salé) is a
Moroccan film director, screenwriter and producer. She gained great recognition and national and international fame through her successful documentary ''
The Mother of All Lies'', for which she also won several awards.
Biography
El Moudir holds a
master's degree in documentary cinema from the
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University ( ar, جامعة عبدالمالك السعدي) is a Moroccan public university created in 1989. It is considered to be the main university in the North of the Morocco. This university is made up of 15 institutions, ...
in
Tetouan, and a master's degree in production at the Superior Institute of Information and Communication of Rabat in
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
.
She studied at
La Fémis in Paris. She graduated in 2010 from the Moroccan Film Academy in Film Directing / Fiction.
After making a number of short films, El Moudir directed ''
The Mother of All Lies'', her first feature film. The next year, she directed ''The Postcard'', her first documentary feature film.
She has directed documentaries for
SNRT,
Al Jazeera Documentary
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) (Arabic: الجزيرة, romanized: al-jazīrah, IPA: l (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ , referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is a Qatari international state-owned public media conglomerate headquartered at Qatar Radio and Tele ...
,
BBC and
Al Araby TV. She has won important national and international awards which have been screened in Festivals worldwide and presented on co-production markets.
In 2022, she was part of
Netflix Equity Fund with Four Female Arab Filmmakers.
Awards
* Grand Prix at the International Women's Film Festival in Toronto (2021)
* Grand Prix at the IsReal Film Festival in Nuoro (2021)
* Directing prizes and the Grand Prix of the El-Ayoun Documentary Film Festival (2019)
Filmography
* 2010: ''The Last Bullet (La Dernière balle)''
* 2011: ''The Colors of Silence (Les couleurs de silence)''
* 2013: Thank God It's Friday
* 2015: Rough Cut
* 2016: Harma
* 2019: ''Guerre oubliée (Forgotten War)''
* 2020: ''
The Postcard (Fi Zaouiyati Oummi)''
* 2023: ''
The Mother of All Lies''
References
External links
Asmae El Moudir - IMDb
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moudir, Asmae El
Living people
1990 births
Moroccan film directors
Moroccan screenwriters
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University alumni
Moroccan women screenwriters