ELHUM SHAKERIFAR

Elhum is a BAFTA nominated producer, winner of the 2017 Women in Film & TV's BBC Factual Award, and one of Screen International’s 2018 #Brit50 Producers on the Rise.

 

Elhum’s multi-award-winning credits include The Reluctant Revolutionary (Sean McAllister, 2012), The Runner (Saeed Farouky, 2013), multi-award-winning A Syrian Love Story (Sean McAllister, 2015), Even When I Fall (Sky Neal and Kate McLarnon, 2017), BIFA winner for Best Documentary, Almost Heaven (Carol Salter, 2017), ISLAND (Steven Eastwood, 2017) and Of Love & Law (Hikaru Toda, 2017). Working with a range of partners including BFI, BBC, Sundance, Doc Society, The New York Times, Irish Film Board, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Chicken & Egg Pictures and Women Make Movies to name a few, her work has been broadcast internationally and screened at festivals including Berlinale, IDFA, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX and Dubai Film Festivals. Elhum was recipient of the 2016 BFI Vision Award and is part of the 2019 EAVE cohort.

 

Bridging the gap between UK festival visibility and distribution, she began to work on specialist distribution strategies with titles including Wadjda (Haifaa Al Mansour, 2012) and The Lebanese Rocket Society by (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2013). In 2015, she self-distributed A Syrian Love Story (Sean McAllister, 2015) in the UK to such high visibility that it was named #3 Best Film of 2015 by the Guardian and was nominated for Film Campaign of the year at the Screen Awards 2016.

 

Formerly programmer of Bird’s Eye View Film Festival (2012-14) and notably of the hugely successful focus on Arab Women Directors in 2013 and three-month curation of Canary Wharf Screen in 2014, Elhum is now MENA and Iran programme advisor for London Film Festival and Film Curator for Shubbak, festival of contemporary Arab culture. In 2017, she was nominated for the Arab British Centre’s Award for Culture.

 

Alongside her work in film, she produced award-winning photography book The Grey Line (by Jo Metson Scott, published 2013) about US and UK soldiers who have spoken out against the war in Iraq – named one of TIME, Guardian and Telegraph’s top photobooks of 2013. She is also a published translator of Persian poetry, with a new book of poetry by Azita Ghahreman, translated with Maura Dooley published by Bloodaxe Books in October 2018.

EMMA GREEN

Emma manages marketing and communication strategy across Hakawati’s films. Emma started out working for documentary distributor Dogwoof, handling online strategy and social media for their complete catalogue of documentary titles. During her time at the company she spearheaded marketing campaigns for films such as Dreams of a Life (2011), The Act of Killing (2012), The Spirit of ’45 (2013) and Blackfish (2013).

 

Moving to the freelance world, she now delivers digital marketing campaigns across film sales, distribution, exhibition and home entertainment with a rosta of clients including the likes of Curzon, Bertha DocHouse, Rich Mix, Pulse Films, Metrodome and Raindance. Emma also regularly handles social media for several film festivals, working with Cambridge Film Festival, Brighton Cine-City Film Festival and Open City Documentary Festival.

 

Most recently, she spent two years managing the global marketing and press campaign for Loving Vincent (2017), the world’s first oil-painted animation feature. The film earned BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.