Nadia Zouaoui

Online cinema

• L’islam de mon enfance
  

  • Documentaire
  • 87 min
  • français
  • 2019

Filmography

• L’islam de mon enfance

  • Documentaire
  • 87 min
  • français
  • 2019
  J’ai grandi dans un pays musulman où la religion et la culture ont fait bon ménage depuis des siècles. La tolérance était alors un sage médiateur entre la culture, religion… Main theme: Religion, Secondary theme(s): Éducation, Femmes.
  Prix : Grand prix et meilleur scénario au FINIFA 2019
  Grand prix du jury de l’AFIFDOK 2019
  Distribution : Les Productions NADIAZ Inc
  Diffusion : FINIFA (Maroc) - AFIFDOK (Maroc) - Films Femmes Afrique 2020 FFA (Sénégal)

BIOGRAPHY

Nadia Zouaoui was born in Algeria and has lived in Quebec, Canada since 1988. She studied literature and journalism at the University of Montreal and McGill University. Nadia works for the French and the English CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), for the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) and for the Aljazeera Documentary Film Channel. Nadia’s Journey, a film about the condition of women in Algeria, received the Gemini Award from the Academy of Canadian Television & Cinema, an award at the RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Festival) and the Grand award at FIGRA (Festival International du Grand reportage d’Actualité et du Documentaire de Société) in France. Nadia has an intimate knowledge of the struggles she portrays in her work. She speaks English, French, Berber and Arabic and understands the cultures behind these languages. Her mission and passion is to work in a journalism of humanism and to produce documentaries that help break down the barriers and biases caused by misinformation and to build bridges between cultures while encouraging dialogue and a better understanding among people of different backgrounds.

AREAS OF ACTIVITY

• Long métrage
• Film, Télévision

WEB SITE
nadiazouaoui.com