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, 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 with New Sparta: INTERFERENCE, an elevated horror exploring new motherhood and postpartum psychosis. Another feature project is in development with BFI Network entitled LAYLA IN DREAMLAND, which was part of London Film Festival’s Production Finance Market New Talent Strand, and Berlinale Talents.
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 first play, ELEVEN DAYS, is a political satire based on the tumultuous eleven days Anthony Scaramucci spent as White House Communications Director under the Trump regime.
Her short films have won and been nominated for awards at BAFTA and Academy Qualifying festivals, and received nearly a million views online.
