Hind Shoufani is a Palestinian writer/filmmaker currently residing between Dubai and Beirut in the Middle East, with work in Jordan.
Born in 1978 in Lebanon as a refugee, and raised in Amman, Beirut and Damascus, Hind has been working in diverse capacities in both the written media and audiovisual industries for the past 14 years.
After completing a British IGCSE High School degree from Damascus, Hind obtained a BA in Radio/TV/Film Communication Arts from the Lebanese American University in 1999.
In 2002, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship from Jordan to obtain a Master of Fine Arts from New York University in film writing and directing from the Tisch School for the Arts.
In 2005, Hind wrote and directed a feature length fiction film, titled “Carencia”, in New York as well as a few dramatic shorts in different cities.
Since her graduation in 2006, she has been teaching film in Beirut and Amman, working on her second feature film project, producing/directing short films in the UAE, as well as performing poetry in various cities, and writing for magazines. She has also written TV shows in Beirut, worked as a segment director/producer for TV, and was an on air journalist for Orbit TV.
She has a poetry book published by xanadu* in English titled “More light than death could bear” which was named “Book of the month” by Time Out Beirut in December 2008. She also is the founder of the “Poeticians” poetry group in Beirut, where readers perform in public once a month in three languages, French, English and Arabic.
In 2010, she published her second book, “Inkstains on the Edge of Light”, with xanadu*. A 300 page volume of poetry, the book is made of collected poems paying homage to Death, Life, Home and Lust.
Hind just completed her second feature film script, produced with Dima Al-Ansari. The film is an interfaith love story set in NYC, Beirut and Amman, during the 2006 war on Lebanon and will be going into funding and pre-production mode end of 2012.
She is presently in post production on a personal documentary about the secular PLO Fateh factions and the failure of the leftist Palestinian revolution through an intimate family journey with her father, Dr. Elias Shoufani. This critical poetic English/Arabic documentary is expected for commercial release January 2012.
She is interested in glitter and light, a free and secular Palestine, writing poetry to combat bitterness, female rights and liberties in the Middle East, bonding with like-minded artists all over the world, traveling, reading alone, as well as dancing to sensual music, updating her Poeticians website and hunting for colorful shiny Indian bindis for her forehead in Dubai.
Born in 1978 in Lebanon as a refugee, and raised in Amman, Beirut and Damascus, Hind has been working in diverse capacities in both the written media and audiovisual industries for the past 14 years.
After completing a British IGCSE High School degree from Damascus, Hind obtained a BA in Radio/TV/Film Communication Arts from the Lebanese American University in 1999.
In 2002, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship from Jordan to obtain a Master of Fine Arts from New York University in film writing and directing from the Tisch School for the Arts.
In 2005, Hind wrote and directed a feature length fiction film, titled “Carencia”, in New York as well as a few dramatic shorts in different cities.
Since her graduation in 2006, she has been teaching film in Beirut and Amman, working on her second feature film project, producing/directing short films in the UAE, as well as performing poetry in various cities, and writing for magazines. She has also written TV shows in Beirut, worked as a segment director/producer for TV, and was an on air journalist for Orbit TV.
She has a poetry book published by xanadu* in English titled “More light than death could bear” which was named “Book of the month” by Time Out Beirut in December 2008. She also is the founder of the “Poeticians” poetry group in Beirut, where readers perform in public once a month in three languages, French, English and Arabic.
In 2010, she published her second book, “Inkstains on the Edge of Light”, with xanadu*. A 300 page volume of poetry, the book is made of collected poems paying homage to Death, Life, Home and Lust.
Hind just completed her second feature film script, produced with Dima Al-Ansari. The film is an interfaith love story set in NYC, Beirut and Amman, during the 2006 war on Lebanon and will be going into funding and pre-production mode end of 2012.
She is presently in post production on a personal documentary about the secular PLO Fateh factions and the failure of the leftist Palestinian revolution through an intimate family journey with her father, Dr. Elias Shoufani. This critical poetic English/Arabic documentary is expected for commercial release January 2012.
She is interested in glitter and light, a free and secular Palestine, writing poetry to combat bitterness, female rights and liberties in the Middle East, bonding with like-minded artists all over the world, traveling, reading alone, as well as dancing to sensual music, updating her Poeticians website and hunting for colorful shiny Indian bindis for her forehead in Dubai.
