Farah Abushwesha

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Farah Abushwesha is an award winning filmmaker of Libyan and Irish descent.

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[edit] Biography

Abushwesha was born to an Irish mother and Libyan father. She has worked for Warner Brothers Television, the TNT, Cartoon Network and Moving Picture Company. Farah has a diploma in Journalism and trained as an actress at the Poor School, London. She has worked as a radio presenter in Ireland and France, and as a reporter for Boulevard Magazine (Paris), Irish Eyes (Paris) and The Irish Star covering the 1995 MTV Movie Awards. Abushwesha was selected by the European Commission and the British Council to represent Ireland as part of a film project celebrating the enlargement of Europe taking part in panel discussions in Brussels and Sweden for Media Desk. Farah has also worked as Deputy Head of Diploma Studies at the London Film Academy overseeing student graduation film productions.

She is the founder member of Rocliffe Forums which she set up in 2000 and now has more than 8000 members. The events are held at Bafta and are unique platforms for new writing and a networking event. 10 minute extracts are performed to an industry audience of producers, development executives, directors, actors and literary agents by professional actors. Following each performance, the writer receives feedback from an industry co-chair and answers questions from the audience. The evening rounds off with a Q&A with the industry guest, and finally a relaxed networking sessions. Past guests have included Richard Eyre, David Yates, Nik Powell, Michael Kuhn, Iain Softley and Simon Relph. Farah has been selected by BAFTA as a new talent to watch, featuring in the October 2006 Bafta Academy Magazine. She is currently developing several feature film ideas based on original ideas and her father, Redwan Abushwesha's, short stories. [1]


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[edit] Production

  • Sir Alan Sugar Challenge (2006) (producer)
  • News from Heaven (2006) (associate producer)
  • Apartment 406 (2006) (associate producer)
  • The Pistachio Nut (2005) (associate producer)
  • No Deposit, No Return (2004) (producer)
  • The Welcome Committee (2004) (producer)

[edit] Direction

  • The Sharer (2007)
  • Chicken Soup (2006)
  • Sir Alan Sugar Challenge(2006)

[edit] References

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  2. ^ "The Rocliffe Team, Curators and Producers", Rocliffe, Accessed May 13, 2007.<ref> <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/U1739930 <u>Farah Abushwesha, Biography<u>], ''BBC - Film Network'', Accessed May 13, 2007.</li></ol></ref>

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