Rime Mahdi

MFA CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY BY PRACTICE, UCL SHS

The documentary world provides a wealth of artistically rousing work, affording viewers an informed transperspectival reality through exposure to complex subject matters and multi-dimensional participants.

With the primarily harmful ‘hypervisibility’ of Muslims across the media, impactful documentary practice is critical to countering and reforming this state of affairs.

My six years of experience as a self-shooting producer/director and editor, and two years of experience as an academic, has driven me to pursue this Masters. It will enable me to develop substantiated research, refine technical and creative skills, and to flourish as an ethical documentary filmmaker deconstructing and representing reality.

Ultimately I shall be contributing to the small pool of Muslim women's voices in the media, which will be imperative for more accurate and humanising representation.