New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs Department of Cinema Studies

“Women Filmmakers in the African Diasporic World” Series of films by African and African diaspora women exploring new approaches to film, gender and society.

Neither Allah, Nor Master! Directed by Nadia El Fani (71 min. / 2011) Monday, November 2, 2015/ 6:30 pm Location: Silver Center, Jurow Lecture Hall, 1st floor, Rm 101A, 100 Washington Square East, NY, NY Discussion with director Nadia El Fani

ABOUT THE FILM

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Director Nadia El Fani:

Nadia El Fani is a Franco-Tunisian filmmaker. She makes documentary and fiction films that can be described as activists. After being assistant director in particular with , Nouri Bouzid, Romain Goupil, Franco Zeffirelli, El Fani directed her first short film "POUR LE PLAISIR" in 1990 and founded her own production company Z'YEUX NOIRS MOVIES in Tunisia. Being very close to groups of women activists she made in 1993 her first documentary "MAGHREB WOMEN LEADER" then "TANITEZ MOI." She moved to in 2002 for the post- production of her first feature fiction film "BEDWIN HACKER." In 2011 her documentary "LAÏCITÉ, INCH'ALLAH!" ("NEITHER ALLAH NOR MASTER!"), made in Tunisia before and after the revolution, earned her death threats from Islamic extremists and six criminal complaints, one for sacred infringements. She risked five years jail. In 2012 she released "NOT EVEN HURT," Grand Prize 2013 FESPACO, a film made with Alina Isabel Pérez, a cinematic answer to the campaign of hatred she had suffered. Then in 2013 she signed with “NOS SEINS, NOS ARMES!,” a documentary made during the first six months of installation of the movement Femen in Paris.

UPCOMING IN THE FALL 2015 SERIES:

Friday, November 13th / 6:30 pm Tuesday, November 17th / 6:30 pm Calypso Rose, The Lioness of the Jungle Electro Chaabi LOCATION: Tisch School of the Arts - NYU LOCATION: Kimmel Center – NYU Dept. of Cinema Studies 60 Washington Square South, Room 802- 721 Broadway, 6th floor Michelson Theater Shorin

______Filmmaker Pascale Obolo travels with In the slums of Cairo, the youth dance to Calypso Rose, documenting the life of the the sounds of “electro chaabi,” a liberating uncontested and much decorated diva of new kind of music. Filmmaker Hind Meddeb Calypso music. shows two visions of the world and of lives coexisting in the same space in a fragile cohabitation.

Film titles/locations to be announced for spring 2016 visit: www.nyuiaaa.org