2022 Festival Panel​​

Canadian Filmmakers Roundtable

Date: May 28, 12PM
In-person @ Paradise Theatre

​FREE EVENT
​Abstract: A key mandate of the Festival is to platform and highlight Arab-Canadian filmmakers.

Through this discussion, filmmakers will reflection on their creative journeys, opportunities and challenges making films in Canada and beyond.

The panel follows a FREE screening of Canadian short films.

Moderator:
  • Nashwa Lina Khan, Community Educator, Facilitator, and Researcher

Speakers:
  • Sawsan Al Saraf, Filmmaker
  • Nour Gaith, Filmmaker
  • Christina Hajjar, Filmmaker
  • Serene Husni, Filmmaker
Nashwa Lina Khan is a community educator, facilitator, and researcher. She is also a writer and poet and occasionally dabbles in installation and archive that uses narrative methodologies. She holds a Masters of Environmental Studies from York University with areas of concentration focused on narrative methodologies, community and public health, refugee, and forced migration studies and is currently a PhD student at York University in Environment and Urban Change. Her work has been published in a variety of places including Vice, Rewire, This Magazine, and The New York Times. She is the host and producer of two podcasts, Muslim Rumspringa and Habibti Please.