Idil Ibrahim
| Idil Ibrahim إيديل إبراهيم |
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| Born | Somalia |
| Residence | New York City |
| Nationality | American |
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UC Berkeley New York University |
| Occupation | film director, producer, actress, writer and entrepreneur |
| Years active | 2000s–present |
| Website | www |
Idil Ibrahim (Somali: Idil Ibraahiim, Arabic: إيديل إبراهيم) is a Somali–American film director, producer, actress, writer and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Zeila Films, a film production company based in New York.
Ibrahim earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2002 from the University of California, Berkeley. In her senior year at the institution, she was selected as an Episodic Series Intern for the competitive Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) Internship program. She was also chosen as an Arts Bridge Scholar for UC Berkeley's Consortium for the Arts.
Additionally, Ibrahim attended graduate studies at New York University, having won a Nadine Abergel Arts Fellowship.
Ibrahim was the life partner of combat photojournalist Tim Hetherington until he was killed while on assignment in Misrata, Libya during the 2011 Libyan civil war. U.S. Senator John McCain sent two American flags to Hetherington's memorial service in New York, one of which was presented to Ibrahim by members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade who had served under combat with Hetherington and writer Sebastian Junger on a multitude of occasions.
She presently resides in New York, and frequently travels around the world on various film projects.
During her time as an Arts Bridge Scholar, Ibrahim taught documentary film analysis and film production to Berkeley High School students.
Her first film project was during her ATAS internship at UC Berkeley, when she worked on the Lifetime Network's Any Day Now television show.
In 2008, Ibrahim served as an Associate Producer on the feature documentary Americana. Directed by Topaz Adizes (City, Seven Miles Alone) and produced by Corinne Golden Weber (Babel, 21 Grams, Revolutionary Road), it was an official selection of the 2009 Cinéma du Réel festival at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The work was also selected for the Margaret Mead International Documentary Film Festival and the Dallas AFI Film Festival.
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