NefertitisDaughters

NEFERTITI’S DAUGHTERS
(40 minutes) Egypt
[watch trailer]

THURSDAY 10/27, 4:40 PM (Session 15)

Directors: Mark Nickolas, Racha Najdi
Producer: Jean Ferreri

Description:
Female graffiti artists in Egypt use their street art to participate in and lead revolution. Nefertiti’s Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, this documentary witnesses the critical role revolutionary street art played during the Egyptian uprisings. Focused on the role of women artists in the struggle for social and political change, Nefertiti's Daughters spotlights how the iconic graffiti of Queen Nefertiti places her on the front lines in the ongoing fight for women’s rights and freedoms in Egypt today.

Biography:
Mark Nickolas is a long-time veteran of US politics, most notably as an aide to then Vice President Al Gore, and later managed federal and statewide campaigns, before shifting his efforts to the political media world, and eventually to filmmaking. His first film, My Life in the Canyon of Heroes, was named a short film finalist by Smithsonian magazine, and earned national media from The Atlantic, and segments on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace” and CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” His current film, Nefertiti’s Daughter, a short documentary on female revolutionary street artists in Egypt, won Grand Jury First Prize at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, a Gold Remi award at Worldfest-Houston and was privately screened at a museum (E-werk) in Germany. Mark is in post-production on a third short documentary (Nth Country Project), and is in pre-production on his first feature-length documentary about a cautionary tale on the excesses of the “war on terror” titled A Cloud of Suspicion. Originally from Oakland, California, Mark earned his BA from the University of California at Berkeley, and his MA in media studies & film from The New School in New York City.

Racha Najdi is a producer in the fields of cinema and music. Most recently, she worked with Wika (Cairo) on the production and distribution of Nadine Khan’s first feature film Harag w Marag (Chaos and Disorder, 2011) which won the Grand Jury Selection Prize at the Dubai Film Festival. In 2011-2012, she was manager of the Express Fund at the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, a competitive programme providing one-year of funding to artists from the Arab World in support of projects inspired by the Arab Spring. Najdi studied public relations and advertising at the Lebanese University in Beirut and obtained a masters in cultural management and international cooperation.

Contact Information:
e: livia@icarusfilms.com
w: www.nefertitisdaughters.com




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