Tahani Rached

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. 1 2 Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 9789774249433. Retrieved 14 December 2015. 
2. ↑ Hottell, Ruth; Pallister, Janis (2005). French-speaking women documentarians : a guide. New York: P.Lang. ISBN 9780820476148. Retrieved 14 December 2015. 
3. ↑ "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 on IMDb