Naziha Arebi

Naziha Arebi
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Film director, Photographer, Producer, Screenwriter
(Female)
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

British-Libyan Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, photographer.

A British-Libyan artist and filmmaker Naziha returned to Libya during the revolution. Coming from a theatre background, Naziha works at the cross section between cinema and activism, producing shorts for Oxfam, UN Women, Hivos, Aljazeera and BBC. She regularly works as a cinematographer in the MENA region, and is producing two feature films in Libya. Naziha is also a HotDocs Blue Ice and a Sundance Lab fellow.

Naziha Arebi is a Libyan/British artist and filmmaker. Naziha returned to Libya after the revolution to work and explore her father's homeland. She directed two short documentaries there, now being shown in festivals worldwide, worked as writer and production manager with BBC Media Action and worked on a new film with Urban Republic. In 2012 she co-founded HuNa Productions, a Tripoli-based production collective, aiming at developing Libyan cinema as a tool for change. She has completed a series of educational shorts on Libyan reconciliation, worked as cinematographer on a 52' Al Jazeera documentary in Libya about the Tabu tribe, and directed a 24' documentary on assassinated Libyan activist Salwa Bughaghis for UN Women. She also makes content for Oxfam and Hivos in the MENA region. Naziha's photography has been published in The Monocle, Brownbook, RUKH, Critical Muslim, The Outpost, Mashallah News, Vitra Design and exhibited in London, Paris, Malta, Tunisia, Barcelona, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Dubai, Geneva and Libya. In 2013 she attended IDFA Academy and was part of Documentary Campus eV. She is also a WEF Global Shaper and a Sundance Lab fellow. Alongside Freedom Fields, she is also co-producing another feature documentary in Libya, After A Revolution, in collaboration with Met Film (UK), EIE Film (Italy) and Urban Republic (USA).

Filmography
2017 - Freedom Fields, feature documentary (in Post-production)
2016 - Women on the Frontline, short series
2015 - #JusticeForSalwa, short documentary
2014 - Libyan Flavours, short series
2013 - Behind the Rising, short documentary
2013 - Between the Ropes, short documentary
2012 - Granny's Flags, short documentary

Source:
* www.dohafilminstitute.com/financing/projects/grants/freedom-fields-1
* http://static.labiennale.org/files/cinema/Documenti/final-cut-in-venice-b.pdf (Venice 2017)

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نزيهة عريبي

نزيهة عريبي ابنة مواطن ليبي ترعرعت في الممكلة المتحدة. بعد عملها في المسرح، حصلت على منحة دراسية لدراسة الفن وحصلت على مقعد في مركز لندن للدراما في كلية سانت مارتينز المركزية للفنون والتصميم حيث حصلت هناك على شهادة ماجستير. تعاونت مع مدونين تونسيين لإنتاج مسرحية جديدة "قراصنة قرطاج" التي تكتشف فلوبير والثورة التونسية وتويتر وسلطة الشعب. قضت نزيهة معظم عام 2011 في ليبيا تستكشف بلدها الجديد وحضرت ورشة عمل في طرابلس لصانعي أفلام شباب مع المعهد الإسكوتلندي للأفلام

Source:
* www.dohafilminstitute.com/ar/financing/projects/grants/freedom-fields-1

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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