Five female Arab producers and directors have received a total of $250,000 from Netflix and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) in an initative aimed at strenghtening the pipeline of Arab women behind the camera.
The recipients are Moroccan director-producer Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies’, Tunisian director-producer Sarra Abidi with her project My Name Is Clara, and Diala Kachmar’s From The Other Shore, Jana Wehbe’s The Day Vladimir Died and Tania Khoury’s Manity, all from Lebanon.
“More and more Arab women filmmakers are creating moving images that have the power to shed light on the realities of the region,” said Rima Mismar, AFAC’s executive director. ”This second collaboration with Netflix, this time to support women in the field of cinema, complements perfectly AFAC’s mission to promo e diversity of voices and narratives.”
The grants have been awarded via Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity which is designed to create new opportunities for underrepresented communities in the industry.
The streamer has recently produced Arab original series Al Rawabi School For Girls and Finding Ola.
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