Lemia Mahayni
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
- Cinematographer
Lemia Mahayni grew up alternating between the Willamette Valley, Oregon
and Damascus, Syria. She earned her BFA in Film from Simon Fraser
University (2010) in British Columbia, Canada. The extremes of her
bicultural background inform her film work in narrative, experimental
and documentary forms.
Her shorts include the experimental films "String Theory" (2006), and "Rose, Suede and Lace" (2007), and the narrative "Hess" (2008) made in collaboration with Persian filmmaker Sadaf Sadeghi and Vancouver director Teresa Alfeld.
Mahayni's documentary works include "Earl in Our Memories" (2008) which examines the transient nature of memory as she builds the portrait of her World War II pilot grandfather, and "Beladi: Syria" (2006) an introduction to Syria through its antiquities. In 2010 her film "Alpha and Omega: The Struggle for Survival" earned an Accolade Competition Award of Merit: short documentary. In the Spring of 2013 she began editing her film "El Hijab" a 'behind the veil' investigation of the practice of religious head-covering in Syria.
Her shorts include the experimental films "String Theory" (2006), and "Rose, Suede and Lace" (2007), and the narrative "Hess" (2008) made in collaboration with Persian filmmaker Sadaf Sadeghi and Vancouver director Teresa Alfeld.
Mahayni's documentary works include "Earl in Our Memories" (2008) which examines the transient nature of memory as she builds the portrait of her World War II pilot grandfather, and "Beladi: Syria" (2006) an introduction to Syria through its antiquities. In 2010 her film "Alpha and Omega: The Struggle for Survival" earned an Accolade Competition Award of Merit: short documentary. In the Spring of 2013 she began editing her film "El Hijab" a 'behind the veil' investigation of the practice of religious head-covering in Syria.