Areeb Zuaiter

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Areeb Zuaiter at the Arab American National Museum

Areeb Zuaiter (born 17 June 1980) is a Palestinian director.

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Training

Zuaiter was born in Nablus, Palestine. Her family moved to Saudi Arabia when she was two months old. She initially took up painting before becoming interested in filmmaking. [1]

In 1997 she moved to Lebanon to pursue her BA in Interior Architecture, then another BA in Radio, TV and Film from the Lebanese American University. [2] She moved to the United States in 2010 to pursue her Master’s degree in Film and Video Production from American University. [3] [4]

Career

Zuaiter led the Regional Training Department at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan and served as the Head of Film Programming at the Amman International Film Festival - Awal Film (AIFF). [5] [6] [7]

Zuaiter spent a year at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History as a Goldman Sachs Film and Video Fellow where she produced some of the Museum's projects.[ citation needed ] Between 2016 and 2018, Zuaiter served on the evaluation committees for the Rawi Screenwriters Lab, the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Med Film Factory.[ citation needed ]

Zuaiter taught Visual Literacy, Media Production II and History of Documentary at American University's School of Communication and taught Film Production II at Howard University's Cathy Hughes School of Communications. [1] [8]

Zuaiter is also the founder of the production house A0 Productions.

Film work

Zuaiter directed the short fiction film "Stained," which won the Jury Prize at the European Film Festival in Lebanon. She also directed the documentary Colors of Resistance, which won the London Independent Film Awards Best Documentary Short at the London Independent Film Festival in 2019.[ citation needed ]

In 2024, Zuaiter made her feature directorial debut with the documentary Yalla Parkour, which follows parkour athletes in Gaza and explores her own Palestinian roots. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 DOC NYC Film Festival, and was nominated for the Panorama Audience Award at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival. The film is qualified for the 98th Academy Awards.

Zuaiter creates works focused on social issues, art, Palestine [9] [10] and identity. She has said that she is "presenting, preserving and protecting people who can no longer find their city on a map." [1]

Education

Areeb studied at the Lebanese American University where she earned a Bachelor of Architecture in Interior Architecture and a Bachelor of Art in Communication Arts. She also studied at American University and earned a Master's Degree in Film and Video Production from the American University School of Communication. [11]

Documentaries

Awards

Yalla Parkour


2019Winner

ARFF Globe Award

March 2019 - Paris

Colors of Resistance (2019)

2019Winner

Best Short Documentary

March 2019

Colors of Resistance (2019)   (short, documentary film)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Arab American Women, True Excellence in Our Midst – Arab American Activism". WRMEA. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  2. ↑ "About Areeb Zuaiter". Areeb Zuaiter. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  3. ↑ عريب زعيتر - رحلة فيلم سينمائي من الفكرة إلى ما بعد الإنتاج - هذا الصباح , retrieved 2022-10-30
  4. ↑ "Colors of Resistance". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  5. ↑ "Amman International Film Festival wraps up with lavish success and hopes" by Israa Radaydeh, Jordan News, July 28, 2022.
  6. ↑ "2nd edition of Amman Int'l Film Fest: Awal Film to start from August 23" by Maria Weldali, The Jordan Times, Jul 08,2021.
  7. ↑ "AREEB ZUAITER – Amman International Film Festival" . Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  8. ↑ "About". Areeb Zuaiter. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  9. ↑ ""توب لاين".. تعاين النقد السينمائي في الصحافة الأردنية". alrainewspaper (in Arabic). 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  10. ↑ Gillespie, Tommy (2019-10-24). "Weekender: Art, oppression, resilience converge at Boston Palestine Film Festival". The Tufts Daily . Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  11. ↑ "Adjunct Instructor". American University. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  12. ↑ "Colors of Resistance". Colors of Resistance. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  13. ↑ "First film by 'The Present' director Farah Nabulsi among 32 projects to secure Doha grants" by Melanie Goodfellow, Screen Daily, 9 JUNE 2021.
  14. ↑ "Yalla Parkour". Yalla Parkour. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  15. ↑ "The Close-Up programme announces its selected projects". Cineuropa . 27 October 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  16. ↑ Vassilis Economou (16 January 2025). "Diverse perspectives and limitless creativity abound in the Berlinale Panorama". Cineuropa . Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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