Born in Montréal, Mary Ellen Davis has lived in France and in Quebec. After studying cinema, she directed documentaries shot in Quebec, Guatemala, Mexico and Palestine. Since 1998, she is co-programmer of the cinema section of the Festival Présence autochtone. In 1999, she started teaching part-time at the Mel Hoppenheim school of cinema. at Concordia University. She is also the co-organizer of Regards palestiniens, from its first edition in 2007 to its 13th, in 2019. In 2015, she co-founded the collective Regards syriens and the film series La Syrie vous regarde (5th edition, November 2020)
L’extrait de la semaine choisi par Mary Ellen Davis