Yasmin Kamal is a British Egyptian director and producer working across the UK, Middle East and North Africa. With over 15 years’ experience in character-led documentary, she has worked in politically sensitive and difficult-to-access environments, developing films through trust, research and close collaboration.Her work explores the in... Read More

 Yasmin Kamal is a British Egyptian director and producer working across the UK, Middle East and North Africa. With over 15 years’ experience in character-led documentary, she has worked in politically sensitive and difficult-to-access environments, developing films through trust, research and close collaboration.Her work explores the intersection of social, political and cultural life through intimate, character-led stories. This approach is informed by her study of film and long collaboration with Youssef Chahine’s Misr International Films, where an auteur-driven tradition of cinema helped shape her own work.Credits include the Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary The Square, alongside work for Channel 4, BBC, Al Jazeera English, National Geographic and Netflix. Read Less