Teyama Alkamli
Born in Aleppo and raised in Dubai, Teyama Alkamli currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Her visually tender and deeply human films deal predominantly with issues of identity, sexuality, displacement and migration. She is an alumna of DocNomads, the European Mobile Film School, Hot Docs Emerging Filmmaker Lab, and the Canadian Film Centre's Director Lab.
Her latest work, Hockey Mom, is a mid-length documentary and winner of Best Documentary Program at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards, currently available to watch in Canada on CBC GEM.