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The filmmaker and director Najwa Najjar has explored several new artistic grounds as she has written, directed, and produced over a dozen critically acclaimed award-winning films that have premiered at the film festivals in Cairo, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, and at Sundance. In 2020, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 2021, she was elected to the European Film Academy EFA and honored for her work at the Aswan International Women’s Film Festival and the Tiro Arts Festival in Lebanon.

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Recently, she was elected to be part of the Academy Writer’s Executive Committee.

With a master of arts in filmmaking (US), she has worked in both documentary and fiction since 2000. Her critically acclaimed debut was the feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009) that premiered at Sundance and then screened at over 60 festivals, including Rotterdam, Cairo, and Goteborg, receiving many awards along the way.

Her second award- winning film, Eyes of a Abraham Lincoln: Biography, U.S. President, Abolitionist GYRA