User:Kambai Akau/Marwa Zein

Marwa Zein is a Sudanese Film director, Scriptwriter and Film producer. She is the author of the 2019 documentary, Khartoum Offside, and an advocate of women's rights through her works. She is the founder of of ORE Production, a Khartoum-based film production outfit and was one of the seven young filmmakers selected from around the world to attend the Cannes Film Festival 2019 by the International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA). .

Career
For her graduation project, Zein wrote, directed and produced the short documentary film, A Game, in 2009, translated into five languages and served as an official selection in over 30 international festivals globally. At the 2016 Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), her short film, One Week, Two Days!, starring: Yasmin Raies and Amro Saleh, was premiered. It too was featured in various other film festivals.

In 2019, she released a four-year long project which she wrote and directed, a sports documentary, Khartoum Offside, which was first globally premiered in the 2019 Berlinale Forum in Germany and was listed as one of the about three notable Sudanese films to be premiered in 2019 by Media Support, although, yet to be premiered in Sudan. The central Message of the film whose lines began the film was this: "“Under the current political Islamic military rule, women are not allowed to play football in Sudan – and we are not allowed to make films – but…”" In producing this film, she broke the Sudanese government's ban on women's involvement in filmmaking. Although, she didn't encounter direct physical assault by the Sudanese authorities during the course of making this film, she got threats of the cameras' destruction. The film got to be premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on April 26, 2019 and was screened online at the Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival on October 6, 2020 and alongside another feminist Afro-Arab films in Arabic with English subtitles, by Dardishi on October 24, 2020