Kurdwin Ayub

Kurdwin Ayub was born in Iraq in 1990 Currently she works as a director screenwriter and video and performance artist in Vienna Austria Studies in Painting and Animation with Christian Ludwig Attersee and Judith Eisler at the University for Applied Arts Vienna from 2008 to 2013 Since 2011 studies in Performing Arts with Carola Dertnig at the University of Fine Arts Vienna Her shorts have been shown and awarded at numerous international film festivals In 2013 Ayub was awarded the Vienna Independent Short Newcomer Prize in 2011 and 2012 she received the Viennale Mehrwert Short Film Prize In 2012 she presented a series of her short films at the Viennale Her feature documentary Paradise Paradise direction screenplay and cinematography by Ayub won Best Camera at the Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film the New Waves Non Fiction Award at the Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo and the Carte Blanche Prize of the Duisburger Filmwoche in 2016