About

Azza El-Hassan is a filmmaker and a Professor of media practices at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

Her work has been nominated for various international awards and she is the winner of The ALEPH DOCUMENTARY AWARD, LUCHINO VISCONTI AWARD, JAZEERA JURY AWARD and the prestigious GRIERSON AWARD, among others.

Azza’s works includes The Unbearable Presence of Asmahan, Kings & Extras (2004), and News Time. Azza has a special interest in the use of visual archive, in films by nations who’s archive, has been destroyed or abducted. Her book, The Afterlife of Palestinian Images, uniquely addresses how plundered cultures relate to the actual remains of their archives. She is the founder of THE VOID PROJECT, a multi media art project, that aims to restore archival films, curate exhibitions and produce narratives that centres around archive and the effect of their abduction on narratives construction.

Contact: azzaelhassan@me.com