Recently awarded the prestigious BFI Vision Awards for the UK’s most exciting emerging producers, Elhum Shakerifar is a BAFTA nominated producer with an interest in the intersection between the personal and the political. She recently produced multi award-winning BFI/BBC supported Sean McAllister’s A Syrian Love Story (2015), which has also screened in both UK and European Parliaments. Elhum is an advisor for London Film Festival and film curator of Shubbak, festival of contemporary Arab culture.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
