Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Nationality British
Occupation documentary filmmaker, journalist
Known for Call Me Kuchu

Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a documentary filmmaker of British and Moroccan descent,[1] best known as one of the directors, with Katherine Fairfax Wright, of the 2012 film Call Me Kuchu.[2][3]

Zouhali-Worrall's second feature-length documentary "Thank You For Playing", co-directed and edited with David Osit won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary[4]. The film was an Independent Television Service co-production, about the making of the art house video game "That Dragon, Cancer". It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2015,[5] and was broadcast on POV in Fall 2016. Zouhali-Worrall and Osit also directed and edited "Games You Can't Win," a short film inspired by the feature for The New York Times Op-Docs.[6]

She studied English literature at Cambridge University and International Affairs at Sciences Po, and later became a reporter and videographer for cnn.com.[2]

Zouhali-Worrall is married to Wired journalist Andy Greenberg.[1][7]

References

  1. 1 2 http://malikazw.com/about
  2. 1 2 25 New Faces of Independent Film: Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall. Filmmaker, 2012.
  3. ↑ http://callmekuchu.com/awards/
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/newsemmys/status/916107897322528774
  5. ↑ http://tribecafilm.com/stories/tribeca-film-festival-2015-world-documentary-competition
  6. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/opinion/games-you-cant-win.html?_r=0
  7. ↑ http://www.thismachinekillssecrets.com/author/


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