Nadia Zouaoui was born in Algeria and has lived in Quebec, Canada since 1988. She studied literature and journalism at the University of Montreal and McGill University. Nadia worked for different radio and TV channels as a journalist and became a documentary maker since 2006.
Nadia’s Journey, her first film about the condition of women in Algeria, received the Gemini Award from the Academy of Canadian Television & Cinema, an award at the RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Festival) and the Grand award at FIGRA (Festival International du Grand Reportage d’Actualité et du Documentaire de Société) in France.
Her recent documentary, Fear, Anger & Politics about the impact of the anti-terrorist laws on Muslim communities in the US was the 5th film ever watched on Aljazeera English. It won Best Canadian Independent film and Human’s Rights Jury award at Festival Vues d’Afrique in Montreal. Best International Documentary in the Harlem International Film Festival in New York. A Special Mention at the Baghdad Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Aquarius Short Film festival in India.
The Trial 2.0 (2018) examines the problem of social media slandering in Quebec during the intensive debates about the Islamic headscarf.
Her last film Islam of my childhood (2019) is about the impact of political Islam and terrorism in Algeria and the challenges of social reform in the Muslim world.