BIO
Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a print and video journalist whose work has been published in The Financial Times and at CNN.com. She has reported for CNN.com from India, Uganda, China and the U.S., including a feature article on the lack of workplace rights for transgender employees in the U.S., told through the painful experiences of a transman who transitioned from female to male while working at a Connecticut factory. That story in part led Zouhali-Worrall to the topic of her first feature-length documentary, Call Me Kuchu, a film about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists in Uganda, which she is directing with Katherine Fairfax Wright. Zouhali-Worrall and Wright have just finished production on the film, which has been supported by a number of grants including the Chicken & Egg Pictures "I Believe in You" Grant, the Catapult Film Fund and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Zouhali-Worrall is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds an MA in International Affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po).
CURRENT PROJECT: CALL ME KUCHU (DOCUMENTARY FEATURE)
LOGLINE:
Call Me Kuchu tells the story of four LGBT activists in Uganda, including the life and tragic death of the country's first openly gay man, David Kato, who will stop at nothing to liberate his fellow kuchus and prevent an Anti-Homosexuality Bill from becoming law.