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Production
2024

Untitled Middle East Project

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee

  • Janay Boulos, Director
  • Abd al-Kader Habak, Director
  • Sonja Henrici , Producer
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About the Project

CONFIDENTIAL

 

Project Team

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    Janay Boulos

    Janay Boulos is a Lebanese journalist and filmmaker with extensive experience documenting the Middle East. From 2012 to 2021, she worked for BBC News across television, radio, and digital platforms. In 2021, she founded Habak Films with Syrian filmmaker Abd Alkader Habak, and she continues to produce documentaries for international outlets, bringing Arab stories to global audiences. She is currently producing her second feature documentary, Until the Buzzing Stops, is a co-producer on The Last Mayor of Jerusalem, and is developing a new feature documentary from Lebanon as a solo director.

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    Abd al-Kader Habak

    Abd Al-Kader Habak is a Syrian cinematographer who worked in Syria during the most difficult times and filmed six years of the war. He has worked with several international channels (BBC, CNN) as a cameraman/field producer. After living and documenting the siege of Aleppo, he fled to the UK in 2017. Habak lives in London and works as a documentary filmmaker and producer.

     

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    Sonja Henrici

    Sonja is an award-winning German-British producer of many acclaimed feature documentaries and campaigns, including The Oil Machine (Sheffield/ IDFA/ BBC), Merkel (Telluride/ IDFA/Netflix), Time Trial (SXSW), Donkeyote (IFFR), I Am Breathing and more. She was Co-Director/Exec Producer of Scottish Documentary Institute from 2013 - 2020 and founder of its production arm (2007). In 2021 she set up Sonja Henrici Creates to develop fiction and docs. She loves to collaborate internationally from her base in Edinburgh. She’s an AMPAS & BAFTA Member.