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''Zahara Moufid' is a Director, Producer, Actress and Scriptwriter, known for Shelter Me (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7841916/?ref_=nm_knf_t1, The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), 11th Hour (2017)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6207498/?ref_=nm_knf_t3, The Secret Scripture https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3344694/?ref_=nm_flmg_msc_1 and Get Rich or Die Tyrin (2005)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430308/?ref_=nm_flmg_msc_2. Zahara Moufid Studied Drama and worked as an actress .She studied - Master Degrees in Media Studies and  Film Production   and also an Acting Diploma at the Gaiety School of Acting Dublin. Zahara joined an acting agency and was offered a variety of roles. The year she received her second Master's Degree in Media Studies, she was offered to film in Libya which entailed an interview with the late Colonel Gaddafi. Zahara was commissioned by a charitable organisation to film and produce a documentary about the lives of Sri Lankan refugees living in India. This project took her to southern India with visits to refugees camps and orphanages in Kerala, Bangalore and a scatter of out-of-the-way villages. She was commissioned by a charity to teach Drama and Filmmaking to underprivileged teenagers in Dublin. Following this, she undertook a new and interesting role as assistant to acclaimed Irish film-maker Jim Sheridan who was then working on the movie Get Rich or Die Tyrin' in Toronto. Zahara shot behind-the-scenes concerning the making of that film. This, to her surprise, was picked up by MTV and Paramount Studios. This initial project with Oscar-nominated Sheridan led to a rich and ongoing collaboration and a contract with his production company Hell's Kitchen where she works as a filmmaker, scriptwriter and producer. In 2007 Zahara began another Master's Degree, this time in Film Production at University College Dublin. In 2014, she founded and is the Director of the successful first Dublin Arabic Film Festival (DAFF) with Jim Sheridan as Festival President. The guest of honour was Omar Sharif, who travelled to Dublin to support this worthy project. This, sadly, was to be one of Sharif's last public appearances. Zahara subsequently produced and directed a documentary about his visit which was screened at the second DAFF in 2015 in gratitude for his support, and as a tribute to his life's work. In December of 2017 Zahara directed the documentary Inside Apollo House which told the story of how a group of activists, many from the entertainment world, occupied a vacant office building in central Dublin to create temporary accommodation for people sleeping rough in the cold of winter. Her recent documentary "Shelter me" was premiered at many International Film Festivals. It won Best documentary Award at the disappear here film festival and also won The Jim Cullen Human Rights Award at Respect Belfast Human Rights Film Festival. Currently, She is working on several new projects still in development. She attributes her craft development to working with her mentor, Jim Sheridan, and working with him in the making of most his movies.

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