Asmae El Moudir

Asmae El Moudir born 1981 in Salé is a Moroccan documentary filmmaker El Moudir holds a masters degree in documentary cinema from the Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tetouan and a masters degree in production at the Superior Institute of Information and Communication of Rabat in Rabat She studied at La Fémis in Paris She graduated in 2010 from the Moroccan Film Academy in Film Directing Fiction After making a number of short films El Moudir directed The Mother of All Lies Le mensonge originel her first feature film The next year she directed The Postcard her first documentary feature film She has directed documentaries for SNRT Al Jazeera Documentary BBC and Al Araby TV She has won important national and international awards which have been screened in Festivals worldwide and presented on coproduction markets In 2022 she was part of Netflix Equity Fund with Four Female Arab Filmmakers