Farah Abushwesha (Arabic: فرح أبو شويشة) is an award-winning filmmaker of Libyan and Irish descent.
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Abushwesha was born to an Irish mother and Libyan father. She grew up in Dublin and Tripoli. She has worked for Warner Brothers Television, the TNT, Cartoon Network and Moving Picture Company. She is currently based in the UK and works as a writer and production manager. She is represented by Meg Davis at MBA Literary agents. Abushwesha has a diploma in Journalism and trained as an actress at The Poor School in London, England. 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. Abushwesha works in production on feature films including Late Bloomers, Cleanskin, The Scouting Book for Boys. She is a guest lecturer in screenwriting and filmmaking at Pulse College, Dublin.[1]
Abushwesha is the founding member of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum which takes place at BAFTA London Head Quarters twice yearly and in the regions including Belfast and Nottingham. The forums celebrated 10 years of their existence this year and are supported by many industry organisations and individuals including Variety, Debra Hayward (Working Title), Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, David Parfitt and John Madden who are all patrons. It has featured the early work of many up and coming screenwriters including James Dormer, Jack Thorne, Claire Wilson, Blaine Brothers and Josh Appignanesi.
Abushwesha 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, Redhwan Abushwesha's, short stories.[2]