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biography Irit Neidhardt

Biography Irit Neidhardt

Irit Neidhardt was born in Germany in 1969 and brought up in Germany and Israel/Palestine where her parents worked for Christian organizations. She is based in Berlin/Germany. Since 1995 she is teaching and curating in the field of Middle Eastern cinemas. She was managing an adult education centre in Germany and teaching at SOAS (School for Oriental and African Studies) in London before founding mec film in 2002.

Irit Neidhardt is associate producer of Mahmoud al Massad’s award winning feature-documentary RECYCLE and co-producer of Simon el-Habre’s highly acclaimed THE ONE MAN VILLAGE and his latest GATE #5. She worked as consultant for Tamer el-Said’s THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY as well as for the cinematic adaption of Sayed Kashua’s LET IT BE MORNING.

She is editor of the books “We are the Good Ones. Antisemitism in Germany’s Radical Left.” (with Willi Bishof) and “Living with the Conflict?! Reports and Analyses from Leftists in Palestine and Israel.” with contributions by Tanya Reinhard, Ella Shohat, Azza El-Hassan, Nabila Espanioly and others (both books are German-language only) and author of various articles on subjects related to cinema and the Middle East. See the list of publications.