Iris Zaki

BIOGRAPHIE

[EN] Dr. Iris Zaki is a Grierson award-winning artist-filmmaker with a signature cinematic style. Her first-person documentaries explore themes of complex identity, cross-cultural encounters and community representation, Her films Women in Sink and Unsettling have been shown at numerous festivals (incl. CPH:DOX, IDFA, AFI Docs, Karlovy Vary and BFI) and universities worldwide, winning many prestigious international awards. and featured on TV internationally and on the NY Times’ OpDocs, attracting millions of online viewers. Iris did her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she explored her innovative interviewing technique - the Abandoned Camera, as well as subjectivity and ethics in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking. Iris is teaching documentary filmmaking for BA and MA students at Sapir College in Israel, while also giving masterclasses in Europe and the US.

FILMOGRAPHIE