Tahani Rached
| Tahani Rached | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 16, 1947 Cairo, Egypt |
| 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 des jobs (1972)
- La phonie furieuse (1982)
- Beyrouth! Not Enough Death to Go Round (1983)
- Bam Pay A! Rends-moi mon pays (1986)
- Haïti, Nous là! Nou la! (1987)
- Au chic Resto Pop (1990)
- Doctors with Heart (1993)
- Emergency! A Critical Situation (1999)
- Four Women of Egypt (1997)
- For a Song (2001)
- Soraida, a Woman of Palestine (2004)
- These Girls (2005)
- Neighbors (2007)
References
- 1 2 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 the Internet Movie Database
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