Asmae El Moudir

Asmae El Moudir (born 1981 in Salé) is a Moroccan documentary filmmaker. El Moudir holds a master's degree in documentary cinema from the Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tetouan, and a master's degree in production at the Superior Institute of Information and Communication of Rabat in Rabat. She studied at La Fémis... in Paris. She graduated in 2010 from the Moroccan Film Academy in Film Directing / Fiction. After making a number of short films, El Moudir directed The Mother of All Lies (Le mensonge originel), her first feature film. The next year, she directed The Postcard, her first documentary feature film. She has directed documentaries for SNRT, Al Jazeera Documentary, BBC and Al Araby TV. She has won important national and international awards which have been screened in Festivals worldwide and presented on co-production markets. In 2022, she was part of Netflix Equity Fund with Four Female Arab Filmmakers.

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