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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Sawsan Qaoud (born in Nablus 1972-), is a Palestinian filmmaker and lecturer at Al-Quds University, with a master's degree in television production from Moscow andCardiff Universities. She has worked in the production industry since 1995, as a television producer and correspondent for MBC, directing and producing several feature-length documentaries.
In 2013, she co-founded Mashhad Art Productions, a company that facilitates filmmakers and also produces films and television documentaries.
In 2019, Sawsan will inaugurate the Jerusalem Media Training Center in cooperation with Al-Quds University.
Career
She lived inside Palestine until the beginning of the first intifada, then moved to learn media in Moscow, and stayed there for a period of five years, graduating in 1994 and then began her training as a correspondent for MBC in Moscow. She returned to Palestine to work as a correspondent for MBC at its headquarters in Jerusalem.
She has directed feature films based on real stories for women, and her first film, which was a success during the Second Intifada, deals with captive women football players.
Qaoud's films include Women in the Stadium, which was released in 2011 and shows the struggle of the Palestinian women's football team in playing and training under the Israeli occupation.
In addition to the film "Symphony of the Diaspora", released this year, documents how a number of musicians of Palestinian origin were selected to play classical music in the West Bank and Israel.
The 90-minute documentary Smuggled Sperm tells the story of Shirin Nazzal, a Palestinian woman who becomes pregnant with a child as a result of artificial insemination after receiving sperm released from her husband in an Israeli prison. With this film, Shireen tries to live a single mother life in a conservative Palestinian society.
In 2019, she directed the film "The Guardian of Memory", which follows the stories of return that Tariq al-Bakri documents, the stories of the Palestinians' relationship with asserting their right to their land, and the return of three generations of exile to visit their homes and villages from which they were forced to leave.
Works
Women of Al-Aqsa
Diaspora Symphony
Women in the playground
Prison outside bars
The fingers of time
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