Carina NicHaouchine
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Carina NicHaouchine is an award-winning Scottish-Algerian filmmaker and writer focused on creative documentary. Her work often explores identity and family as she creates to understand the things that confuse or bring discomfort. Her first short documentary, Ululation, made through Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI), screened internationally and won a John Byrne Award.
She is currently in post-production for her debut feature film (a coming-of-age documentary – with dragons!) funded by Screen Scotland, part of Sheffield DocFest’s MeetMarket 2025 and Tribeca Creator’s Market 2026, and is developing a second feature film (exploring the queerness of nature and mixed identity) supported by Sheffield Doc Fest’s Queer Realities Director’s Lab, SDI’s Write Now Fund and UnionDocs Summer Development Lab.
Carina’s writing has been featured in Soft Opening Gallery, Alchemy Experiment and Middleground Magazine, and she compiled the first English translation of Algerian Amazigh folk stories. She has written programme notes for GSFF and DCA, and programmed for GSFF and Dardishi Festival. She has worked as a mentor and collaborative artist on community projects with GMAC Film, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The Portal Arts, The King’s Trust and Traverse Theatre and is a BAFTA Connect member, an SDI ‘New Voice’ and IDFA Academy participant.
Collective Home: Community, Creativity & Action in Argyll is one of the 23 Scotland-wide projects awarded funding through Culture Collective in 2026-2027.
Funded by the Scottish Government, Culture Collective places creativity at the heart of community development, supporting artists and organisations to work directly with communities, respond to local priorities, strengthen local identity and create paid opportunities for creative practitioners.
Focussed upon the concept of home and what this means now for communities in Argyll, our project reflects the distinct character and composition of our rural and coastal region. Through sustained projects devised collaboratively by the creative practitioners we support and the participating communities, we will explore what home means for young people in Argyll, for those facing the challenges of the climate crisis, and for those with lived experience of displacement and settling in this region. Developed in partnership with local organisations, our work will harness the power of creativity and collective action to build community, promote cultural exchange, and enhance lives.
