Carina NicHaouchine

Carina’s films have been screened at festivals including Edinburgh International Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival. She directed her first short documentary, ULULATION, in 2018 through Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap scheme, which screened internationally and won a John Byrne Award. Carina holds a BA in Digital Film and Television from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2019, participated in a year-long documentary training scheme with OTOXO Productions in Barcelona.

She was selected as a ‘New Voice’ in 2021 by Scottish Documentary Institute, was a participant in Film in Mind’s supervision group for emerging filmmakers, Reclaim The Frame’s Filmonomics 8 and IDFAcademy.

She is due to release her first feature documentary, RAISED BY DRAGONS, with Peabody Award-nominated producer Steven Lake, funded by Screen Scotland. The project was part of Sheffield DocFest’s MeetMarket 2025 and Tribeca Film Festival’s Creator’s Market and Work in Progress Selection 2026. She is developing a second feature, GORSE: AN ACT AGAINST NATURE, through Sheffield Doc Fest’s Queer Realities Director’s Lab, SDI’s Write Now Fund and UnionDocs Summer Development Lab.

Shaping narratives from reality and songwriting are major influences in her writing, which is primarily in short and long-form fiction. Carina holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Her work has accompanied exhibitions and featured in various arts publications, including the Alchemy Experiment, Middleground magazine and the University of Glasgow’s 30th Anniversary Anthology.

She published the book MACHADO: A BERBER FOLK TALE, which is the first English translation of Algerian Kabyle, Amazigh folk stories and is currently working on her debut novel.