- Born in Aleppo and raised in Dubai, Teyama Alkamli currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Her visually tender and deeply human work deals 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, TIFF Writers' Studio, and the Canadian Film Centre's Director Lab.
In 2021 Teyama's mid-length documentary, Hockey Mom, won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Program. Her films have screened worldwide at festivals such as TIFF, Berlinale, and Doc Lisboa.
- IMDb mini biography by: Teyama Alkamli
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