Viola Shafik

Viola Shafik is an Egyptian-German film theorist, curator, and filmmaker.[1]

Viola Shafik
شفيق، ڤيولا
Born(1961-07-24)July 24, 1961
Schönaich, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
NationalityEgyptian-German
Alma materAcademy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart

Early life and career

Shafik was born in Schönaich, Baden-Württemberg, Germany to an Egyptian father and a German mother. She studied Oriental studies and German studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1994, received her PhD. Her dissertation, Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity was later published in English in 1998. She lived in New York in 1996 as a result of a grant from the Rockefeller Humanities Foundation.[2] Shafik has taught at the American University in Cairo and Zürich University.[1] She has also been a consultant for training initiatives La Biennale di Venezia, the al-Rawi Screenwriters Lab, and the Dubai Film Connection. She also has curated film festivals.[3] Shafik has been a translator for German television.[2]

She currently is the Head of Studies of the MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) Programme Documentary Campus,[3] an initiative that is focused on directing and producing documentary films in Middle Eastern and North African countries.[4]

Selected filmography
  • The Core of the Pomegranates (Das Innere des Granatapfels, 1987)
  • The Lemon Tree (1993)
  • Planting of Girls (1999)
  • Journey of a Queen (2003)
  • My Name is not Ali (2011)
  • Scent of Revolution (Arij, 2014)

Bibliography
  • Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, AUCPress, Cairo, 1998
  • Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, AUCPress, 2007

References
  1. "VIOLA SHAFIK". Werkstatt Der Kulturen. Werkstatt der Kulturen. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  2. Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press. p. 109. ISBN 9789774162688. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  3. "Rawi Consultants". The Royal Film Commission Jordan. RFC. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  4. "What is the MENA Programme?". MENA. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.