The Team
Director/ Producer
Jude Chehab is a Lebanese-American filmmaker whose cinematic interests have drawn her to the exploration of the esoteric, the spiritual and the unspoken. A richly layered visual and intimate personal shooting style developed under the mentorship of Abbas Kiarostami’s final student group; Jude has been credited in collaborations with the BBC, Hot Docs, Refinery29, and Oxfam. She has worked as a DP internationally, on films in Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan and was an AP on Sesame Street’s show, Ahlan Simsim, for Syrian refugees. Her work has been awarded fellowships through: CAAM, BGDM, Points North Institute, Firelight Media and Chicken & Egg. Jude’s first feature documentary, Q, was named one of the best documentaries of 2023 by Vogue Magazine. It was supported by: IDA, ITVS, TFI, and the Sundance Institute and won the Albert Maysles award for Best New Documentary Director at Tribeca and the Grand Jury Award for Best First Feature at Sheffield DocFest. She is part of DOCNYC's '40 under 40' list and Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
Editor/ Co-Producer
Fahd Ahmed is an editor based in London. He is the founder and creative director of Studio Amorem, a studio in East London focusing mainly on nonfiction and commercial work. He is a producer on the leading Arab Ramadan show, Kannak Tarah. He was an editing fellow in the Gotham Edit Lab, Close-Up Berlin Lab as well as the Sundance Story and Edit Lab. He has edited for the BBC and is a story editor on the PBS-funded 3-part docuseries, A Town Called Victoria. He edited the award-winning feature documentary, “Q” that is shortlisted for the IDA Awards. He is currently producing a BFI-funded short set in Bradford.
Music By: William Ryan Fritch
Additional Music: Paul Jebanasam
Sound Design: Tom Drew
Colorist: Roman Peregon
Consulting Producer: Bhawin Suchak