BIO & CONTACT

Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a British/Moroccan filmmaker based in New York. Her films examine the intimacy created by networks of care and community, whether through art, caregiving, or political action.

An Emmy Award-winning director, her directing credits include the feature-length documentaries, CALL ME KUCHU (2012, Berlin Film Festival, Netflix) and THANK YOU FOR PLAYING (2015, Tribeca, News & Television Emmy Award), both of which were theatrically-released to critical acclaim. Malika’s episodic directing credits include an episode of the Peabody award-winning TV series Art in the Twenty-First Century, which broadcast nationally in June 2023. Malika has also directed numerous short films including, most recently, VIDEO VISIT (2022), which was released by Field of Vision after festival screenings including SXSW, AFI Fest, Blackstar, and BAM Cinemafest. She has directed short and episodic work for The New York Times OpDocs, French broadcaster ARTE, and PBS American Masters.

An Emmy-nominated editor, Malika is one of the editors of UNION (2024), which won a Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival, and was described by The New York Times as “astounding, rebellious… brilliant.” Before that, she edited THROUGH THE NIGHT (2020), a feature-length film by Loira Limbal that was selected for the 2019 Sundance Edit & Story Lab, chosen as a Critic's Pick by The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter, and recently named as one of The Guardian’s Best Documentaries of 2020.

Malika is currently in development on a hybrid feature-length film about an Egyptian dystopian novelist living in exile.

Malika's films have been supported by the Sundance Film Institute, Cinereach, San Francisco Film, Field of Vision, Doc Society, The New York Times OpDocs, and Catapult Film Fund, among others.

Malika is a 2019 Chicken & Egg Awardee, a 2020 Sundance Momentum Fellow, a 2020 William Greaves Award recipient, and a 2021 Adobe Women at Sundance fellow.

Email: malika.worrall [at] gmail.com