Myriam Rey

Myriam is a French-Syrian artist and filmmaker. Her practice focuses on using oral testimony and embodied visuality to explore themes of loss, belonging and memory. She has worked on projects involving creativity, wellbeing and communities for several years in the UK, France and Lebanon. She began making films while studying medical anthropology at University College London. 

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Myriam’s films have been awarded Best Video Poem at the Los Angeles Film & Video Poetry Symposium (2020), Best Short Documentary at Nova Frontier Film Festival in New York (2019),  Honourable Mention at Sunderland Shorts Film Festival (2018) and the Inspiration Award at the AHRC Film Festival (2015). They have screened at festivals including Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Aesthetica Short FF,  Edinburgh Int. FF, London Short FF, Encounters FF, Beirut Int. FF and Images Festival amongst others. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the New Art Exchange, UK (2023), The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, UK (2021) and Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2020).

Fridoon Joinda

Fridoon Joinda is a speaker, UN award-winning filmmaker, founder and director of Joinda Production, a video production entity focused on questions of social justice. He grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan, and was forced to flee in 2016 due to his previous media work. His story begins in Moria camp, an experience which led him to become a human rights advocate.

Through his films and speeches, he aims to inspire integration, to challenge negative perceptions of refugees, to advocate for refugee rights, and to influence citizens and EU policy-makers.

In 2017, he received a scholarship from The American College of Greece, and he will earn his BA degree in Communications and Journalism this June. He also received a scholarship from Harvard University for their Summer Course in Refugee and Migration studies last year. He has just started a podcast, “The Untold,” looking at the refugee experience from a 360-degree perspective.