Farah Abushwesha is a writer, producer, and the founder of Rocliffe, now held at BAFTA and renamed the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum. Her first live action film was the B3/UK Film Council backed Chicken Soup, which was selected for LA International Film Festival, BFI Times London Film Festival, amongst others. No Deposit, No Return was awarded Best Pitch in Cannes 2003 by The Times and was awarded UKFC funding. She has also directed and produced the documentary Sir Alan Sugar Challenge with Griff Rhys Jones. Her other work includes BBC Drama Micro Men, The Scouting Book for Boys (winner at London Film Festival), and London River (winner at Berlin International Film Festival.) Farah is a guest lecturer at Pulse College Dublin and has worked in film education at the London Film Academy. She has participated, organised and chaired panels and events for BAFTA, LFA, Curzon Cinemas and at various international festivals.
