FILM MAKER

Tunisia/France

Biography

Nadia El Fani was born in 1960, her father is Tunisian, her mother, French. She worked as assistant director with Roman Polanski, Nouri Bouzid, Romain Goupil, Franco Zeffirelli, etc. She shot her first short, Pour le plaisir, in 1990, and founded Z’Yeux Noirs Movies in Tunis. Close to Tunisian militant groups,
in 1993 she shot her first documentary, Femmes Leader du Maghreb. She moved to Paris in 2001to edit her first fiction feature film, Bedwin Hacker, presented at the Tarifa Film Festival 2005.