Beri Shalmashi

is a screenwriter and director, she graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy and obtained her MA from the Utrecht School of the Arts. Shalmashi's first film Mama was nominated for a Gouden Kalf and she won the prestigious Silver Camera for Storytelling with Big Village. She made Aan de rand van de revolutie (On the Edge of the Revolution) for Dutch national broadcaster VPRO's Frontline, set in the Kurdish border region between Iraq and Iran, and curated The Fire in Their Eyes, featuring work by 20 artists on the roots of the philosophy ‘woman, life, freedom. She is screenwriter of the telefilm Casting Call, worked as a consultant for the Netherlands Film Fund and is director of programme agency Avanti.