Malika Zouhali-Worrall

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Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a British-Moroccan filmmaker based in New York, working as an Emmy Award-winning director and Emmy-nominated editor. She co-directed Call Me Kuchu (2012), which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary, and Thank You for Playing (2015), which won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. As an editor, her credits include Through the Night (2020), a New York Times and Hollywood Reporter Critics' Pick, Seeds (2025), and the Oscar-shortlisted UNION (2024) — both Seeds and UNION went on to win awards at the Sundance Film Festival. She is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow and a graduate of Cambridge University and Sciences Po.