The House of Tomorrow (documentary)
| Shamim Sarif | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 September 1969 London, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, filmmaker |
| Spouse(s) | Hanan Kattan (m. 2015) |
| Children | 2 |
Shamim Sarif (born 24 September 1969) is a British novelist and filmmaker of South Asian and South African heritage.
Sarif was born in London, England, to Indian parents who had left South Africa in the early 1960s to escape apartheid. She studied English literature at the University of London, then took a Masters in English at Boston University.
Her roots inspired her to write her debut novel, The World Unseen (2001), which explores issues of race, gender and sexuality, which she later adapted into a film starring Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth. The novel won the Pendleton May First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. She has also adapted and directed a film based on her book I Can't Think Straight.
She is the recipient of Best Director awards for The World Unseen film from the South African Film and Television Awards, the Phoenix Film Festival and the Clip (Tampa) Festival.
Her 2011 film, The House of Tomorrow, winner of Documentary Audience Award at the Festival Regards Sur Le Cinema Du Monde 2014 in Rouen (France), is a documentary about the 2010 TEDx Holy Land Conference, which brought together Arab and Israeli women to discuss issues of mutual interest in technology, entertainment, and design.
At Cannes Festival 2013 Enlightenment Productions announced their new film Despite The Falling Snow. The film starring Mission Impossible 5 Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson,Game of Thrones actor Charles Dance, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Antje Traue, Sam Reid, Anthony Head and Trudie Styler, was released in UK on 15 April 2016. The film has won 13 awards to date including 3 at Milan International Film Festival, 3 at Prague International Film Festival, and others at Canada, Buffalo Niagara, Soho, Manchester and Orlando International Film Festivals
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