CHAHINAZ: What Rights for Women? | Directed by: Samia Chala, Produced by: Patrice Barrat | |
Through her curiosity and self-discovery, Chahinaz, a 20-year-old Algerian student, begins to wonder what life is like for women in other Muslim countries and around the world.
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Samia Chala
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Samia Chala, Director Samia Chala, author and documentary director, was born in Algeria in 1964. After studying engineering and launching her career in Algeria, she decided to leave her country due to civil war. She arrived in France in 1994 and began working in the audiovisual industry as an investigative journalist for TV shows and documentaries. |
Patrice Barrat
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Patrice Barrat, Producer Patrice Barrat is a television producer/director and president of Article Z, the Paris-based multimedia production company, which created the Interactive TV series madmundo.tv. Barrat’s awards include the Amnesty International Award, BAFTA Award, FIPA Golden Award and Adolf Grimme Preis for documentaries like Famine Fatigue, Drowning by Bullets, Sarajevo: A Street Under Siege and The Other Algeria. He produced Condor: Axis of Evil, featured at Cannes, and How Arnold Won the West, screened in Locarno and Rotterdam. Barrat founded Internews Europe, managing projects in the Caucasus, Algeria and the former Yugoslavia. With Evelyn Messinger, he created the Bridge Initiative on Globalization after producing a two-way satellite dialogue between Davos and Porto Alegre. He is executive director of Bridge Initiative International, an NGO working to inform citizens on globalization issues. Read more about the film >> View more filmmakers >> |
