Celine is an award-winning British-Lebanese writer and director, with a focus on genre bending stories in Film and TV.
Her previous work has been supported by Sky, the BFI, Doha Film Institute, Berlinale Talents, Trademark Films and Goldfinch: First Flights. She has been a Hospital Club Emerging Creative, and Directors UK Inspire Awardee, as well as an Edinburgh Talent Lab Connects Awardee.
She is currently developing her first feature, LEGS, a darkly comic body horror exploring infertility starring Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey). The proof-of-concept short was awarded the Goldfinch: First Flights’ film award, premiered in competition at Sitges Film Festival, and has screened at many BAFTA and Academy Award Qualifying Festivals. She has another feature project in development: INTERFERENCE, an elevated horror exploring new motherhood.
Writing for TV, her YA supernatural comedy-drama, VICIOUS CYCLE, featured in Sky Table Reads, and MICE OF THE UNDERGROUND was shortlisted for Sundance Episodic Labs. Writer’s room credits include MBC|Starling Entertainment’s AIR MEDS. She is currently adapting the memoir AM I UGLY? based on influencer Michelle Elman’s debilitating experience with Hydrocephalus.
Her short films have won and been nominated for awards at BAFTA and Academy Qualifying festivals, and received nearly a million views online.
She co-created SHORT FRAME, the UK’s largest online distribution channel for short films, as well as two tiny, angry men.
