Qatar Stars
Qumra Projects
Danielle Beverly / Feature Documentary / Qatar
Interests: Documentary
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Synopsis
‘Qatar Stars’ is a longitudinal observational documentary that follows The Olympic Stars, a rhythmic gymnastics school and team, as they aspire to represent Qatar on the world stage at the 2020 Children’s Asian Games. The narrative arc of the documentary will be a 3-act structure, following the schools’ most promising gymnasts as they train, enter their teenage years, and experience the joys and complications of girlhood in a rapidly shifting, and sometimes contradictory, contemporary Middle East.
About the Director
Danielle Beverly works as a one or two-person crew, to craft observational documentaries. ‘Dusty Groove: The Sound of Transition’, edited by Adam Kurnitz (‘Gimme Danger’, ‘Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat’) will premiere in 2019. Beverly’s documentary feature ‘Old South’ (2015) was broadcast on America ReFramed, toured The Southern Circuit, and community gardens via its DIY “Healing Spaces Tour”, and is distributed by Women Make Movies. Her debut feature ‘Learning to Swallow’ (2005) premiered at Silverdocs, screened on America ReFramed, and is distributed by Women Make Movies. ‘Lonnie Holley: The Truth of the Dirt’ (2017, Co-Producer/ Cinematographer) was broadcast on AfroPop, screened at The National Gallery of Art, and won the Audience Award at Macon Film Festival. Beverly is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, where she teaches documentary filmmaking.
Credits
- Director
- Danielle Beverly
- Producer
- Nouf Al Sulaiti