YASMINE BENKIRAN / QUEENS
Yasmine Benkiran grew up on the Moroccan Atlantic coast and came to Paris when she was 18. In France she studied Philosophy and Communication Sciences. She eventually switched majors, entering French National Film School La Fémis in the Screenwriting workshop (l’Atelier Scénario).
As a screenwriter, she writes for both television and cinema. She also wrote two books about Morocco and a historical series of podcasts about Alice Guy, the world’s first female director.
In 2018, Yasmine directed her first short film, Winter Time (Tangier IFF, Off-courts Trouville). She is currently developing Black Library, an anthology television series of mixed genre (fantasy, psychological thriller, science-fiction) as well as On the Nile, an animated spy movie.
Queens is her first feature.