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Nada Mezni Hafaiedh is a Tunisian film director. Born in 1984 in Saudi Arabia, she was from an early aged exposed to different cultures due to her diplomatic parents. Saudi Arabia, USA, France, Canada represents a pool of developments of her passion for cinema.

At the age of ten, her hobby was already assumed, she used to produce amateur films and video clips by putting her friends and family as actors. She went to Montreal to finish her studies in business administration at McGill University, but soon changed her curriculum to follow her passion for filmmaking. Graduated from Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, she directed several shorts films, which will be fast appreciated by the Canadian community.

She is known for tearing down taboo, and touching on fundamental issues that are related with freedom. She is also known for directing her films in a kind of realism by shooting them in a very spontaneous way.

On her return in her country of origin, Tunisia in 2009, she opened her production company Leyth Production where she decided to realize her first feature film. What is more intense than producing a map of Tunisian society Histoires Tunisiennes 2011 (Tunisians Stories), that has been the first film released after the revolution. The film made several festivals and received awards. Its international premier was at Luxor African Film Festival. She also wrote and directed a serie version of the film Histoires Tunisiennes (Hkayet Tunisia) for a Tunisian private channel of television El Hiwar El Tounsi]in 2015. She released Upon the Shadow (Au-delà de l’ombre) a documentary that expresses how much difficult is to grow and protect your sexual freedom in a homophobic society where it is taboo or strongly disparaged.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ Joseph Proimakis (2017-02-24). "Thessaloniki Documentary Festival reveals its line-up". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 2017-04-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Interview avec Nada Mezni Hafaiedh la réalisatrice de "Hkeyet Tounseya" - Radio Med". Radiomedtunisie.com. 2015-07-15. Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 2017-04-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ Fitouri, Samia (2011-12-01). "Premiere of Tunisian Film "Tunisian Stories" in La Marsa, Tunis". Tunisia Live. Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  6. ^ "Flash actualité - Culture". leParisien.fr. 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  7. ^ Ibtissem Zakia Ben Abdallah (2015-06-06). "" Histoires tunisiennes ", le nouveau feuilleton pour Ramadan". highlights.com.tn. Archived from the original on 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  8. ^ "cinéma tunisien - la référence cinéma en tunisie - Film entrée: HISTOIRES TUNISIENNES | Long métrage". Cinematunisien.com. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  9. ^ "Africiné". Africine.org. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  10. ^ "Depeche - "Upon the shadow" veut changer le regard sur l'homosexualité en Tunisie". France 24. 2017-03-11. Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
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