Nada Mezni Hafaiedh born in Saudia Arabia, was from an early aged exposed to different cultures due to her diplomatic parents. Saudia Arabia , USA, France, Canada represents a pool of developments of her passion for cinema.
At the age of ten, her hobby was already assumed, she used to produce amateur films and video clips by putting her friends and family as actors.
She goes to Montreal to finish her studies in business Administration, but soon changed her curriculum to follow her passion for filmmaking. Graduated from School of cinema in Montreal, she opened her production company to write and direct several projects as documentaries and shorts films, which will be fast appreciated by the canadian community.
She is known for tearing down taboo, and touching on fundamental issues that are related to freedom. She is also known for directing her films in a kind of realism by shooting them in a very spontaneous way.
On her return in her country of origine, Tunisia in 2009 , she decided then to write her first feature film . What is more intense than producing a map of Tunisian society: Hekayat Tounisia 2010 (Tunisians Stories), that has been the first film released after the revolution. The film made several festivals and received awards.
She also wrote and directed a serie version of the film Hekayat Tounisia for television in 2015.
She released ‘Upon the Shadow’ (Au-delà de l’ombre) a documentary that expresses how much difficult is to grow and protect your sexual freedom in a homophobic society where it is taboo or strongly disparaged.