dir bio: Haya Fatima Iqbal is an Academy and two-time Emmy winning documentary filmmaker from Pakistan. She directs, produces, and shoots films across Pakistan. Haya has covered a range of subjects through her documentary work ranging from gender, militancy, and conflict to climate change, water scarcity and social justice. Her work has been featured on HBO Documentary, BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4 UK, VICE, National Geographic Society, Redfish, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation among other media organizations. Haya is a Fulbright alumna and an Acumen fellow. She is Assistant Professor of Practice at Habib University, Karachi. She also trains people in storytelling and filmmaking in Pakistan and abroad. She holds a Masters in News & Documentary from New York University.
Films shown in Divvy Film Festival 2021 & 2024
Haya Fatima Iqbal, The Sky is Far, The Earth is Tough, 2021
synopsis: A young mother rendered homeless by the bursting of a glacier, an elderly blind poet who is now a climate refugee; and a first aid worker who is regularly asked for sleeping pills by his village neighbors every time a climate disaster hits, open up to the camera about their struggles with eco anxiety, eco grief, post traumatic stress,depression, and suicide in the remote Pakistani valley of Ghizer.
