Tahani Rached
Tahani Rached | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Canadian-Egyptian |
Occupation | Filmmaker |
Years active | 1973-present |
Tahani Rached is a Canadian-Egyptian documentary filmmaker. She is best known for her work Four Women of Egypt. She has directed more than 20 documentary films in her career.[1]
Life and career[]
Tahani Rached was born on May 16, 1947 in Cairo, Egypt. In 1966, she moved to Montreal to pursue painting. She was a student at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal where she studied painting for two years.[1] She became more involved with the community and thus, turned to filmmaking.[2]
She was hired as a staff filmmaker by Canada's National Film Board in 1981. Rached however, left the Film Board in 2004 to return to Egypt to make films. [3]
Selected filmography[]
- (Les voleurs de job) (1980)
- (1982)
- (1983)
- (1985)
- (1986)
- (1987)
- (1990)
- (1993)
- (1999)
- Four Women of Egypt (1997)
- (2001)
- (2004), about a woman from Rantiya
- These Girls (2005)
- Neighbors (2007)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 9789774249433. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ Hottell, Ruth; Pallister, Janis (2005). French-speaking women documentarians : a guide. New York: P.Lang. ISBN 9780820476148. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ "Tahani Rached, a committed filmmaker". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
External links[]
- Tahani Rached at the National Film Board of Canada
- Tahani Rached at Canadian Women Film Directors Database
- Tahani Rached at IMDb
Categories:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Canadian women film directors
- Canadian documentary film directors
- Egyptian women film directors
- École des beaux-arts de Montréal alumni
- National Film Board of Canada people
- Egyptian Canadian
- Women documentary filmmakers