Making Movies with the Maestro at the Doha Film Institute
Doha-based filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani profiles prolific DFI veteran film prof Rithy Panh.
Suzannah Mirghani
Suzannah Mirghani is a Sudanese-Russian writer, researcher, and media studies/museum studies graduate. She is the writer, director, and producer of AL-SIT (2020), screening on Netflix Middle East, and winner of the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 2021 as well as 6 Academy Award qualifying prizes at Tampere Film Festival, LA Shorts, BronzeLens, New Orleans Film Festival, AFI Fest, and Interfilm Berlin. Her latest shorts are the social media satire Virtual Voice (2021), which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival; and a 2022 film about the Sudanese artist Kamala Ishag, commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries. Suzannah is working on her first feature, Cotton Queen, which won the ArteKino Award at L’Atelier de la Cinefondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.