2020 ShortFest Archive
In competition for the Best of the Festival Award and Best Student International Short
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Lebanese Director, Actress, and socio-political activist living between Los Angeles and Beirut, known for her controversial work in exploring Arab Women issues, currently in development for her first fiction feature film. Farah’s debut short fiction film "I Offered You Pleasure" (2012) participated in world acclaimed film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival among others but got banned in Lebanon by the government’s censorship bureau. In 2015, she was awarded a full-ride scholarship to pursue a MFA in Film directing at UCLA as part of a fellowship program “Giving voice to the unique perspective of Arab women.” Farah is also one of the co-founders of the “You_Stink” anti-corruption movement that has been leading the opposition protests in Lebanon since 2015. Farah received several awards on her short films including the Motion Picture Association of America Award, James Bridges Award of an Outstanding Director, Delia Salvi Memorial Award for Directing the Actors, UCLA Directors’ Spotlight Award among others.