I worked as an assistant editor on The Soil and the Sea (2023, dir. Daniele Rugo), a documentary that explores the link between Lebanon’s missing people and the 100 mass graves scattered around the country since the civil war.
I worked on finding witnesses and recording their testimonies, scouting locations, securing filming permits, and coordinating all aspects of production from videography, to sound recording, to music score. I also edited excerpts for the film’s online resources and helped build its pedagogical material.
After its release, I worked on the film’s dissemination and impact, applying for festivals, scheduling screenings & discussions, contacting media outlets, and organizing activities with focus groups. We were featured in a dozen reviews, and won multiple awards at festivals.
I’ve spoken about the film at about a dozen (of many more) screenings, both online and in-person, all across the world from community screenings in major cities and rural towns in Lebanon, to university screenings in Europe, cinema clubs in South America, and more.
I also worked as an associate producer and assistant editor on the documentary We Never Left (dir. Loulwa Khoury) which follows Lebanese immigrants in New York as they navigate Lebanon’s uprising & collapse from abroad. I help with crowdsourcing footage of the protests, finding relevant archival and news footage of political events, tagging interviews, and I occasionally film some footage.
My first film Reverberations (which I directed and edited), premiered at the Beirut International Women Film Festival in March 2022. This short documentary essay explores the civil war’s impact on my family through an intimate mother-daughter portrait that unveils the politics of a country going through a painful reckoning with its cyclical history.
