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Areeb Zuaiter at the Arab American National Museum

Areeb Zuaiter ( June 17, 1980) is a Palestinian director and a multinational visual storyteller.

Training

Zuaiter was born in Nablus, Palestine. Her family moved to Saudi Arabia when she was two months old. She initially took up painting before becoming interested in filmmaking.[1]

In 1997 she moved to Lebanon to pursue her BA in Interior Architecture, then another BA in Radio, TV and Film from the Lebanese American University.[2] She moved to the United States in 2010 to pursue her Master’s degree in Film and Video Production from American University.[3][4]

Career

Zuaiter led the Regional Training Department at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan and is serving as the Head of Film Programming at the Amman International Film Festival - Awal Film (AIFF).[5][6][7]

Zuaiter spent a year at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History as a Goldman Sachs Film and Video Fellow where she produced some of the Museum's key projects.Шаблон:Fact Between 2016 and 2018, Zuaiter served on the evaluation committees for the Rawi Screenwriters Lab, the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Med Film Factory.Шаблон:Fact

Zuaiter taught Visual Literacy, Media Production II and History of Documentary at American University's School of Communication and taught Film Production II at Howard University's Cathy Hughes School of Communications.[1][8][9]

Film work

Zuaiter directed the short fiction film "Stained," which won the Jury Prize at the European Film Festival in Lebanon. She also directed the documentary Colors of Resistance, which won the London Independent Film Awards Best Documentary Short at the London Independent Film Festival in 2019.Шаблон:Fact

With regards to her film work, Zuaiter creates works focused on social issues, art, Palestine[10][11] and identity. She has said that she is "presenting, preserving and protecting people who can no longer find their city on a map."[1]

Education

Areeb studied at the Lebanese American University where she earned a Bachelor of Architecture in Interior Architecture and a Bachelor of Art in Communication Arts. She also studied at American University and earned a Master's Degree in Film and Video Production from the American University School of Communication.[12]

Documentaries

Awards

  • Around International Film Festival
2019 Winner

ARFF Globe Award

March 2019 - Paris

Colors of Resistance (2019)

  • London Independent Film Awards
2019 Winner

Best Short Documentary

March 2019

Colors of Resistance (2019)   (short, documentary film)

References

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