Biography
Elhum Shakerifar is a British producer, curator, poet and translator. She runs the London-based production company Hakawati and has worked extensively on documentary films, often with a focus on the SWANA region.
She produced A Syrian Love Story (2015), directed by Sean McAllister, which received a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Other credits include Even When I Fall (2017), A Northern Soul (2018) and Ayouni (2020). She has received a BFI Vision Award and the Women in Film & TV Factual Award.
Shakerifar holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, completed in 2006. She has curated programmes for the London Film Festival, Shubbak, the Barbican and the BFI, and serves on the board of the Palestine Film Institute.
