Nadia Zouaoui

Nadia Zouaoui was born in Algeria and has lived in Quebec, Canada since 1988. She studied literature and journalism at the University of Montreal and McGill University. Nadia works for the French and the English CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), for the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) and for the Aljazeera Documentary Channel.
Nadia’s Journey, her first film about the condition of women in Algeria, received the Gemini Award from the Academy of Canadian Television & Cinema, an award at the RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Festival) and the Grand award at FIGRA (Festival International du Grand Reportage d’Actualité et du Documentaire de Société) in France.
Her recent documentary, Fear, Anger & Politics about islamophobia in the US was the 5th film ever watched on Aljazeera English. It won Best Canadian Independent film and Human’s Rights Jury award at Festival Vues d’Afrique in Montreal. Best International Documentary in the Harlem International Film Festival in New York. A Special Mention at the Baghdad Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Aquariuss Short Film festival in India.
The Trial 2.0, her last documentary, is coming out in 2018. It examines the problem of social media slandering in Quebec during the intensive debates about the Islamic headscarf.
She is presently finishing a feature film, The Journey, about the impact of radical Islam in Algeria and the challenges of social reform in the Muslim world.
Nadia Zouaoui has an intimate knowledge of the struggles she portrays in her work. She speaks English, French, Berber, Arabic and some Spanish and understands the cultures behind these languages. Her mission and passion is to work in a journalism of humanism and to produce documentaries that help break down the barriers and biases caused by misinformation and to build bridges between cultures while encouraging dialogue and a better understanding among people of different backgrounds. 
Short Bio:

Nadia Zouaoui was born in Algeria and has lived in Quebec since 1988. Her first film, Nadia’s Journey about the condition of women in Algeria, received the Gemini Award, an award at the RIDM and the Grand award at FIGRA France.
Her film, Fear, Anger & Politics about the impact of the anti-terrorist laws on Muslim communities in the US was the 5th film ever watched on Aljazeera English. It won Best Canadian Independent film and Human’s Rights Jury award at Vues d’Afrique.
Her new coming documentary, The Trial 2.0, examines the problem of social media slandering in Quebec during the intensive debates of The Quebec Charter of Values.

Through her documentaries, Nadia tries to build bridges between cultures and encouraging dialogue among people of different backgrounds