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Meryam Joobeur

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Meryam Joobeur is a Tunisian Canadian film director.[1] She is most noted for her 2018 short film Brotherhood (Ikhwène), which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival[2] and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.[3]

Raised in Tunisia and the United States, she is currently based in Montreal, Quebec, where she is a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.[3] Prior to Brotherhood, she wrote and directed the short films Gods, Weeds and Revolutions (2012) and Born in the Maelstrom (2017).

References

  1. ^ "Portrait de Regard: Meryam Joobeur". Voir, March 16, 2019.
  2. ^ "'Green Book' boosts awards season prospects with TIFF audience award win". Screen Daily, September 16, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Montreal-based filmmaker Meryam Joobeur gets Oscar nomination". CBC News Montreal, January 13, 2020.
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