Sawsan Darwaza
Jordan
Director
Cinema, Performing Arts, Cultural Management
Sawsan Darwaza is a Jordanian theatre and film director who works on collective projects. She started her professional career as a theatre director, introducing the audio-visual medium of film and video within her theatre pieces. She is currently the creative director of Al Ma3mal 612 Think Factory, an art collective based on a pool of thinkers and artists who work on alternative projects using art and film as a tool for social change. She was born in Syria and studied theatre at The Lebanese American University and French literature at Damascus University. In 1985, she moved to Amman and worked on producing, writing, and directing more than twenty plays. Working on a major television series of documentaries about artists in the Arab world, she entered into a new world of encountering the realm of different art disciplines. Sawsan is also the president of the Jordan center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) and the director of the Karama Human Rights Film Festival since 2010.
Sawsan Darwaza
Jordan
Director
Cinema, Performing Arts, Cultural Management
Sawsan Darwaza is a Jordanian theatre and film director who works on collective projects. She started her professional career as a theatre director, introducing the audio-visual medium of film and video within her theatre pieces. She is currently the creative director of Al Ma3mal 612 Think Factory, an art collective based on a pool of thinkers and artists who work on alternative projects using art and film as a tool for social change. She was born in Syria and studied theatre at The Lebanese American University and French literature at Damascus University. In 1985, she moved to Amman and worked on producing, writing, and directing more than twenty plays. Working on a major television series of documentaries about artists in the Arab world, she entered into a new world of encountering the realm of different art disciplines. Sawsan is also the president of the Jordan center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) and the director of the Karama Human Rights Film Festival since 2010.
Juror
Production Awards
2020