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Mounia Akl is a Lebanese director and writer based between London and New York. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®.
Her debut feature, Costa Brava, Lebanon, inspired by her short Submarine (Cannes 2016), premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, TIFF, and BFI London, winning the Audience Award. It was released in the US by Kino Lorber and later on Netflix. She developed the script through the Sundance Labs, Cannes Cinéfondation Residency, and Torino Film Lab. Her second feature film is currently in development and set to shoot in the next two years.
In TV, she has directed episodes of BBC’s The Responder (Martin Freeman), Boiling Point (Stephen Graham), and Netflix’s House of Guinness (created by Stephen Knight). She is also developing her own TV series with three colleagues set in Spain and New York.
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Credits
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2021Production (role): COSTA BRAVA, LEBANONCompany: Abbout ProductionsProject details: Co-written with Clara Roquet
Winner of London Film Festival Audience Award 2021
Official Selection: Venice Film Festival 2021 as part of Horizons Extra
Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs
Cannes Cinefondation Residency
Tribeca Film Institute
Torino Film Lab
The 2021 NETPAC Jury selected Costa Brava, Lebanon, as this year’s NETPAC winner. The 2021 NETPAC jury members included Gemma Cubero del Barrio, Isabelle Glachant and Elhum Shakerifar. “Costa Brava, Lebanon – an exquisite intergenerational family story – is an ode to sustainable futures by visionary new talent, Mounia Akl from her precious and troubled country,” said the NETPAC jury’s statement.
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2016Production (role): SUBMARINECompany: Produced by Cyril Aris and Jinane ChaayaProject details: Co-written with Clara Roquet
Official Selection of the 69th Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation)
North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
MENA Premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival: Winner of Jury Prize -
Date: 2017Production (role): EL GRAN LIBANOCompany: Prod. Dominique Wellinski & Abbout ProductionsProject details: Co-written and co-directed with Neto Villalobos
Opened the Directors' Fortnight on May 18, 2017
Screened by BFI and the Sarajevo Film Festival
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2025Production (role): House of GuinnessCompany: Kudos / NetflixProject details: Directed Episodes 6, 7 & 8
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Date: 2024Production (role): The Responder Series 2Company: Dancing Ledge ProductionsProject details: Directed Episodes 3 & 4
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Date: 2023Production (role): BOILING POINTCompany: BBC StudiosProject details: Directed Episodes 3 & 4
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Date: 2019Production (role): DO NOT DISTURBCompany: Pulse Films & Jude Law/ BlackpillsProject details: Season 1, Episode 4 - Director (Forbidden Love in London)
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Date: 2010Production (role): BEIRUT I LOVE YOU
Co-created & co-directedCompany: LBCProject details: 20-somethings living in Beirut as they attempt to balance work, love, and life.
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Production (role)Project details
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Production (role): 2020 WOMENProject details: Original TV Development with co-writers Clara Roquet, Francisca Alegria, and Fernanda Urejola