Jasmine Dellal

Jasmine Dellal is a British-born film director and producer.

Early life
Jasmine Dellal was an independent film director and producer whose feature documentaries showed in cinemas, festivals and TV around the world. Her last film was in 2008, before stopping to raise a family.

Dellal is the daughter of the Iraqi-Jewish property magnate Jack Dellal. She grew up in Great Britain, studied at Oxford, then in the United States and still spends much time in South India where her grandparents lived near Arunachala mountain in Tiruvannamalai. She read Modern Languages at Oxford University (French and Spanish, Balliol College). Dellal met her mentor, the filmmaker Marlon Riggs while doing a Masters at the University of California at Berkeley.

Career
In the 1990s, while based in San Francisco, Dellal founded Little Dust Productions, to make documentaries and artistic films with a social conscience. She has since moved to New York and London. She is particularly recognized for her work with Roma ("Gypsy" people).

Films

 * When the Road Bends… Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
 * American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land
 * Freedom Writers
 * Utopia in Four Movements (producer)
 * Searching for the Fourth Nail by George Eli (executive producer)

Film awards

 * 2008 Albert Maysles Award for Excellence – Mendocino Film Festival for When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
 * 2007 AUDIENCE AWARD winner – San Francisco Independent Film Fest for When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
 * 2007 Impact of Music JURY AWARD winner – Nashville Independent Film Festival for When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
 * 2007 KOREA -Jeonju International Film Festival – Audience Award for When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
 * Flanders International Film Festival: Audience Award for When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
 * 2000 San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Spire Award for American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land
 * 1999 Atlanta Film Festival Jury Award for American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land