Meryam Joobeur is a
Tunisian Canadian film director.
["Portrait de Regard: Meryam Joobeur"]
''Voir
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'', March 16, 2019. She is most noted for her 2018 short film ''
Brotherhood
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(Ikhwène)'', which won the
at the
2018 Toronto International Film Festival
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["'Green Book' boosts awards season prospects with TIFF audience award win"]
''Screen Daily
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'', September 16, 2018. and was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
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From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One- ...
at the
92nd Academy Awards
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.
["Montreal-based filmmaker Meryam Joobeur gets Oscar nomination"]
CBC News
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Montreal, January 13, 2020.
Raised in
Tunisia
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and the
United States
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, she is currently based in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, where she is a graduate of the Cinema-Communications program at
Dawson College
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The college is situated near the heart of Downtown Montreal in a former nunnery on approximately 12 acre ...
and the
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, a division of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University, is a film school located in Montreal, Quebec. Informally known as MHSoC, the school accepts around 250 students a year for programs in animation, ...
at
Concordia University
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.
[ Prior to ''Brotherhood'', she wrote and directed the short films ''Gods, Weeds and Revolutions'' (2012) and ''Born in the Maelstrom'' (2017).
In 2020, Joobeur was one of the recipients of the 2020 ]Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards
The Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards is an annual campaign by ''Canadian Immigrant'' magazine that recognizes outstanding work by immigrants who "have come to Canada and have made a positive difference living in the country."
Overview
First ...
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Her debut feature film ''Motherhood'' is in development.[Frédéric Bouchard]
"« Motherhood » de Meryam Joobeur est sélectionné au Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab"
''Lien Multimédia'', January 13, 2021. Joobeur participated in the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 28 to February 3, 2021. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 15, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah, the festival combined in-person screenings at the Ray ...
, where she was awarded the $10,000 Sundance Institute/NHK Award toward the film's production.[André Duchesne]
"Sundance remet une bourse à la cinéaste montréalaise Meryam Joobeur"
'' La Presse'', February 3, 2021. Despite its similar title, ''Motherhood'' is not an expansion of or sequel to ''Brotherhood''.[
]
References
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21st-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian women writers
Canadian women film directors
Canadian women screenwriters
Film directors from Montreal
Writers from Montreal
Concordia University alumni
Tunisian emigrants to Canada
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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