Video visit
Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Documentary | USA | 2021 | 23 min
Each week, scores of people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to see their incarcerated loved ones via a free video call. Video Visit tells the story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who negotiate daily to keep the families connected.
Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a British/Moroccan filmmaker based in New York. An Emmy Award- winning director, her directing credits include Call Me Kuchu (Berlinale, Netflix, BBC World, 2012), Thank You For Playing (Tribeca, POV/ITVS, News & Television Emmy Award, 2015), Earn A Living (ARTE, IDFA, 2018), and her recent short for PBS American Masters, Strange Grace: The Art of Amyra León (2020). As an editor, she most recently edited Through The Night (Tribeca, POV, 2020), a film by Loira Limbal that was a New York Times and Hollywood Reporter critic’s pick, and recently named on The Guardian’s Ten Best Documentaries of 2020 List. Malika is a 2019 Chicken & Egg Awardee, a 2020 Sundance Momentum Fellow, and a 2020 William Greaves Award recipient.
