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Idil Ibrahim's films have been featured at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Toronto International Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel in Paris, and Sundance Film Festival, among others. Idil was also selected as one of five women directors to direct a short film for Glamour Magazine's The Girl Project for "Get Schooled," a series focusing on girls education around the world in Malawi, India, Brazil and the United States. She is a recipient of the 2017 Extraordinary Women Awards held by the 92nd Street Y, a hub for women to learn and inspire others by sharing their knowledge, ideas, insights and strength. She was also selected as one of OkayAfrica's Okay 100 Women for 2018.
A graduate of UC Berkeley, her work has led her around the world. She was most recently in Mali as producer of the feature documentary The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu, based on the New York Times Bestselling book of the same title. Prior to producing Badass, she was in Senegal, where she directed and produced the film Sega, starring Alassane Sy (Restless City, Mediterranea), which examines the issue of migration and repatriation. Her film Sega was selected as part of the international competition at the prestigious Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival, and went on to win the jury award for Best Short Film at the 2019 Blackstar Film Festival and the Golden Dhow for Best Short Film at the Zanzibar International Film Festival. Sega was recently acquired by Canal Plus Cinema for television distribution throughout Europe and Africa. Idil is currently attached to direct the feature film adaptation of the Penguin Press novel From A Crooked Rib by author Nuruddin Farah. She is passionate about human rights, humanitarian issues, and global education. She is a contributor to the popular blog Everyday Africa and sits on the advisory board of Bronx Documentary Center's film program, and was an International Jury Member for the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) Global Migration Film Festival. She is an alumni of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) internship program in the Episodic Series category, as well as Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca All Access program. In addition to filmmaking, Idil is a speaker and has spoken at world class institutions and platforms such as the United Nations Headquarters, film festival panels, empowerment workshops and both domestic and international conferences. Idil has been featured in the Guardian, Astronaut Magazine, Glamour, Elle, Fusion.net, Splinter TV, Real America With Jorge Ramos, Nataal, Demand Africa, Destination Iman and Instagram's blog and on television on Arise America and Hawaii News Now.
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