Biography
Maysoon Pachachi is a film director, editor and producer of Iraqi origin. Born on 17 September 1947, she was educated in Iraq, the United States and Britain. She studied philosophy at University College London and film in London.
She worked as an editor on the television series Minder in the 1980s. As a director she is known for the documentaries Iranian Journey (2000), Return to the Land of Wonders (2004) and Our River... Our Sky (2021). In 2004 she co-founded the Independent Film & Television College, a free film-training centre in Baghdad, with Kasim Abid.
