Yasmin Fedda is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose films have been BAFTA nominated and screened at Sundance. Queens of Syria won the Black Pearl award at Abu Dhabi Film Festival and Best Female Director at Carthage. She has a PhD in Transdisciplinary Documentary Film, for which she was awarded a scholarship in Peace-Building and the World of Documentary Film from the University of Edinburgh. She is lecturer in Film Practice at Queen Mary University, London, and is also co-founder of Highlight Arts, an organisation that works with artists in times of conflict.