Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Malika Zouhali-Worrall | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | documentary filmmaker, journalist |
| Known for | Call Me Kuchu |
Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a British-Moroccan documentary filmmaker,[1] best known as one of the directors, with Katherine Fairfax Wright, of the 2012 film Call Me Kuchu.[2][3]
Zouhali-Worrall's second feature-length documentary Thank You For Playing, co-directed and edited with David Osit, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary.[4] The film was an Independent Television Service co-production, about the making of the art house video game That Dragon, Cancer. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2015,[5] and was broadcast on POV in Fall 2016. Zouhali-Worrall and Osit also directed and edited Games You Can't Win, a short film inspired by the feature for The New York Times Op-Docs.[6]
She studied English literature at Cambridge University and International Affairs at Sciences Po, and later became a reporter and videographer for cnn.com.[2]
Zouhali-Worrall is married to Wired journalist Andy Greenberg.[1][7]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Bio & Contact".
- ^ Jump up to: a b 25 New Faces of Independent Film: Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall. Filmmaker, 2012.
- ^ "Call Me Kuchu". 28 August 2012.
- ^ @newsemmys (6 October 2017). "The Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary goes to @POVDOCS "Thank You For Playing." #NewsEmmys" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Osit, David; Zouhali-Worrall, Malika (17 March 2016). "Games You Can't Win". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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