Zeina Daccache is a Lebanese actress and director-producer-writer of documentaries. In 2007 she founded the NGO Catharsis-Lebanese Center for Drama Therapy, which brought the innovative tools of drama therapy to Lebanon. Her work there led to the theatrical production known as 12 Angry Lebanese featuring inmates of Roumieh Prison. This show was later filmed for the documentary of the same name and she was nominated for an APSA for Best Documentary Feature as well as winning the Dubai International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award. The show and film led to the implementation of Law 463 in 2009 (the reduction of sentences for good behavior). Her second feature documentary, Scheherazade’s Diary (2013), won ten international awards including Dubai’s FIPRESCI Prize.
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.
