Doha Film Institute
MENASA Spotlight Shorts Programme
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Screening on 8 Dec | A poetic series of captivating vignettes tracing the filmmaker’s family roots from east to west and their experience as a diaspora.

A poetic series of captivating vignettes tracing the filmmaker’s family roots from east to west and their experience as a diaspora.

Credits

Director
Jamil McGinnis
Producer
Jamil McGinnis
Editor
Jamil McGinnis
Mixing
Jesse Peterson, Three Ten Media

About the Director

Jamil McGinnis
Jamil McGinnis spent his childhood in various parts of Germany, in thirteen different homes speaking three different languages. His work has been screened at Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand, BFI, and the Museum of Modern Art. He writes and directs along with Pat Heywood under the moniker Seneca Village Pictures, a home the two co-founded to continue exploring the space between life and cinema. They are