Talent Guide

Malika Zouhali-Worrall

  • Discipline:Director, Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Lab 2011, Fast Track 2011, Fast Track 2014, Grants and Awards 2012

Bio

Malika Zouhali-Worrall is an award-winning filmmaker of British/Moroccan origin, based in Brooklyn. She is the co-director and producer of Call Me Kuchu (2012), a documentary that depicts the last year in the life of the first openly gay man in Uganda, David Kato. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary and the Cinema Fairbindet Prize. It has since won 18 more awards, including Best International Feature at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and has been theatrically distributed in Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. Zouhali-Worrall is a Roger and Chaz Ebert Fellow and an alumnus of the Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access program, the Film Independent Documentary Lab and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine named Zouhali-Worrall one of– 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her journalism work has been published in The Financial Times, and she has reported for CNN.com from India, Uganda, China, and the U.S. Zouhali-Worrall holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), and she is a graduate of Cambridge University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, journalist Andy Greenberg.

Current Project

Thank You For Playing

Logline

Ryan Green's four-year-old son Joel has terminal cancer. Ryan, an indie video game developer, is building an unusually poetic video game to document his experiences raising a dying child, and to honor Joel while he is still alive. Thank You for Playing follows the creation and growing success of Ryan's game, as his son's health continues to decline.