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about us Carolina Rivas Daoud Sarhandi |
| CAROLINA RIVAS Director, Writer
Carolina studied at the Escuela de Escritores de la Sociedad General de Escritores de México (SOGEM) and later in the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC-UNAM) where she specialised in directing and writing. She completed Theatre Studies at the Foro Actores del Método and at the Foro de Teatro Contemporáneo. She has collaborated extensively with the magazine Estudios Cinematográficos: Revista de actualización técnica y académica. She now contributes a monthly cinema column to the web magazine Antidote. In 2002 Carolina received a prize: Teatro Punto de Partida from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) for her play Huye de Z. Huye. In 2004 in Brazil she studied Butoh Dance with Yohito Ohno, Akira Kasai y Mitsuru Sasaki among others. In the same year in Mexico she studied experimental film with Naomi Uma. In 2011 Carolina completed the feature documentary, co-directed by Daoud Sarhandi, Lessons for Zafirah. The film received the following award: 2011. Best Film (section Mexico Today), FICUNAM, Mexico 2011. Honorary Mention, Best Mexican Documentary, DocsDF, Mexico 2011. Honorary Mention, Best Mexican Documentary, Puebla Int'l, Mexico 2011. Honorary Mention, Best Mexican Documentary, José Rovirosa Prize, Mexico In 2006 Carolina completed the documentary The Colour of Olives. This feature-length film tells a story of the daily life of one Palestinian family living surrounded by Israel's West Bank Wall. The film has been shown at more than seventy film festivals in more than twenty-five countries, and has received the following awards: 2008. Special Mention, Low Budget Film Festival, Cuba 2008. Honorary Mention, Todas las Voces Contra el Silencio, Mexico 2007. Special Mention, Cancún Riviera Maya Film Fesitval, Mexico 2007. Best Direction Documentary, Golden Minbar, Russia 2007. Artistic Vision, Big Sky Documentary Festival, U.S.A. 2006. Courage in Filmmaking, Women Film Critics Circle Awards, U.S.A. 2006. Special Mention Sound, Docúpolis, Spain Carolina's university thesis film Zona Cero also gained a series of awards at Int'l festivals: 2004. Best Fiction Film, Tampere, Finland 2004. Best Int'l Direction, José Zuba Jr., Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2004. Critics' Prize, José Zuba Jr., Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2004. Special Mention, Festival de Cine Independiente L’Alternativa, Spain 2004. Nomination ARIEL, Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, Mexico 2003. Official Selection, Festival de Cannes, France 2003. Best Film of the Festival, Latino Alucine, Canada 2003. 2nd Place Fiction, Este Corto Sí Se Ve, Mexico Carolina has been professor of Film during seven years at diverse academic institutions in Mexico, incuding: Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), Universidad del Cine (AMCI), Instituto de Artes de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH). Her debut fiction feature film (co-directed with Daoud Sarhandi), Nosotros (Ourselves), is currently in postproduction. DAOUD SARHANDI Producer, Director, Photographer, Editor
After studying Film and Photography in London (1982-1985) Daoud worked as a film editor in Great Britain, where he edited numerous feature documentaries for Channel Four Television and the BBC. In October 1995 Daoud made his first visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he worked in the humanitarian industry during the Balkan wars and the subsequent periods of reconstruction, first in Bosnia and later in Kosovo and Macedonia (FYROM). In Bosnia in 1997 Daoud began work on a collection of political posters from the war period. Utilising these posters he went on to write the book Evil Doesn’t Live Here: Posters from the Bosnian War, published in New York and London in 2001. Daoud moved to Mexico in 2002, from where he has collaborated with Eye Magazine, a London-based journal of visual communication. In Mexico he has been published in Proceso, La Jornada and Tinta Seca. Between 2002 and 2004 Daoud worked with the Mexican graphic designer Gabriela Rodríguez. In 2011 Daoud completed the feature documentary, co-directed by Carolina Rivas, Lessons for Zafirah. The film received the following award: 2011. Best Film (section Mexico Today), FICUNAM, Mexico 2011. Honorary Mention, Best Mexican Documentary, DocsDF, Mexico 2011. Honorary Mention, Best Mexican Documentary, Puebla Int'l, Mexico 2011. Honorary Mention, Best Mexican Documentary, José Rovirosa Prize, Mexico In February 2004 Daoud visited the West Bank to interview Palestinian artists. He returned to Palestine at the end of 2004 to make The Colour of Olives with Carolina Rivas. The film has been shown at more than seventy film festivals in more than twenty-five countries, and has received the following awards: 2008. Special Mention, Low Budget Film Festival, Cuba 2008. Honorary Mention, Todas las Voces Contra el Silencio, Mexico 2007. Special Mention, Cancún Riviera Maya Film Fesitval, Mexico 2007. Best Direction Documentary, Golden Minbar, Russia 2007. Artistic Vision, Big Sky Documentary Festival, U.S.A. 2006. Courage in Filmmaking, Women Film Critics Circle Awards, U.S.A. 2006. Special Mention Sound, Docúpolis, Spain Between 2006-2008 Daoud taught Filmmaking at the Instituto de Artes of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH). His debut fiction feature film (co-directed with Carolina Rivas), Nosotros (Ourselves), is currently in postproduction. |
