January / February 2025

Back at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, interpreting and hosting the masterclass with Wissam Charaf as part of the focus on Lebanon and the Lebanese short film scene. Now available online on Short Film Wire.

Autumn 2024

Programming one-off screenings/ Q&As and independent films at the Garden Cinema. I’m working with the Films of Resistance team to oversee international film screenings and organising fundraising strategies to help support filmmaking efforts in West Asia. I will be speaking Read more…

February 2024

Back at the International Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival for the 7th year! I’m delighted to announce that we’ll be hosting a London edition of the festival thanks to the festival organisers, the Mydylarama team, and the Garden Cinema. I’m overseeing Read more…

Autumn 2023

I’ll be taking part in the JOURNÉE PROFESSIONNELLE BEYROUTH LIVRES 2023 in Lebanon.  New at the Garden Cinema: Organising networking events for members and finding guest speakers with experience in various facets of the film industry. I’ll be co-hosting a Read more…

March 2023

Thanks to Mydylarama, I will be hosting Q&As with filmmakers at this month’s AWAN festival in London. I’m curating a season of Arab women filmmakers for the Garden Cinema to be held in May 2023. I’ve just translated the preface Read more…

Autumn 2022

BFI London Film Festival More Q&As and interpreting at LFF 2022 I’m programming Sarah Beddington’s Fadia’s Tree at ActOne Cinema in Ealing and hosting a Q&A with Producer Susan Simnett on 19 November 2022. Along with the rest of the Read more…

May 2022

Producing and co-hosting the new Garden Cinema Film Talk podcast! Myself and cinema director Michael Chambers chat with filmmakers and expert to talk about their work. We’re taking a short break from the usual Mydylarama podcast but in the meantime, Read more…

February 2022

I’m on mat leave until the end of the month so no Mydylarama podcast until then! In the meantime, here’s an article I wrote for the BFI Network about our partnership with the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival (we’re uploading all Read more…