Tazeen Bari

Tazeen Bari is a documentary director, producer and cinematographer based in Pakistan. Her documentary “Letters From Death Row” was acquired by Al Jazeera for Witness in 2019. “Vote for X” that follows the election journey of a transgender candidate in the 2018 general election screened widely at film festivals across the globe. In 2017 her documentary “Qandeel" on social media star Qandeel Baloch was released by Guardian Documentaries UK. It has over a million views and won the Women Voices Now award. In 2016 she was selected to attend a workshop conducted by legendary Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami in Cuba. Tazeen has worked as a producer for two time academy award winning director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and also produced an episode for the Emmy Nominated Vice series WOMAN with Gloria Steinem. Tazeen is the co-founder of the Documentary Association of Pakistan and is also currently developing her first fiction feature.

12:15-1:15 PM WOW Films and Q & A

Sunday 6th March

Vote for X (Film + Q&A)

The film follows the journey of transgender candidate Nayyab Ali, who contested the National Assembly seat in the 2018 elections in Pakistan. The fight for effective political representation unfolds through the eyes of the protagonist, who dreams of the day when transgender people will reach Pakistan’s assemblies