Carina NicHaouchine

Carina’s films have and screened at festivals including Edinburgh International Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival. She directed her first short documentary, Ululation, in 2018 through the Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap scheme which screened nternationally and won a John Byrne Award. Carina holds a BA in Digital Film and Television from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2019 she participated in a year-long documentary training scheme with OTOXO Productions in Barcelona.

Carina often self-shoots and edits and has made films in collaboration with arts projects and charities from around the U.K. She was selected as a ‘New Voice’ in 2021 by the Scottish Documentary Institute and is a recent participant in Film in Mind’s supervision group for emerging filmmakers and Reclaim The Frame’s Filmonomics 8.

She is currently working on her first feature documentary, Session Zero.

Shaping narratives from reality and songwriting are major influences in her writing work which is primarily in short and long-form fiction. Carina holds a Masters in Creative Writing from The University of Glasgow. Her work has accompanied exhibitions and has been featured in various arts publications (The Alchemy Experiment, Middleground).

She published the book Machado: A Berber folk tale, which is the first English translation of Algerian, Berber folk stories and is currently working on her debut novel.