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Owner of Riverflower, the independent content and production company, I am a Sudanese-Swedish creative professional working with mixed-media installations, film and writing.

After several short documentary films including the collaborative film project THE TWO SUDANS I developed the Ibsen Scholarship winning performance piece NORA’S CLOTH. My work has been shown in 14 countries around the world. IN SEARCH OF HIP HOP, my directorial debut film won official selection at Rotterdam and Dubai film festivals in 2013. I have six years of film festival programming experience with CinemAfrica Sweden and three years as contributing art/photography editor at Agave Magazine.

2018 marked my return to the theatre as a producer and dramaturgical researcher with the launch of the black-led National Black Theatre of Sweden.

My first screenplay to get produced is the award-winning short fiction film A HANDFUL OF DATES (2020), an adaptation of Tayeb Salih’s Arabic novel which was directed by Hashim Hassan. I am an alumna of the National Theatre of Sweden, Riksteatern residency for writers 2021.

In 2021 I signed on as co-producer on Mo Kordofani’s fiction feature GOODBYE JULIA, after securing the Malmo Arab Film Festival 2021 development funding prize. The film is being produced by Station Films’ Amjad Abu alAlaa, the award-winning director of YOU WILL DIE AT 20.

Current projects under development:  Feature film based on events in Khartoum 1982-85 with David Hinkley (USA) – Writing a full-length screenplay working title: Ge Järnet – Music documentary/personal essay film.