Suad GARA
Suad Gara is a British-Azerbaijani filmmaker and art curator. She has made three shorts and is currently working on her debut feature, Hotel Diana, with the British Film Institute. The project was selected for WEMW Co-Production Forum, where it won the Pop-Up Film Residency Award, and for the Less Is More script lab by Le Groupe Ouest in 2023. Before embarking on this journey in 2020, Suad was the chief curator and artistic director of YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan. She has also curated independent projects for Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, MAMBo Bologna and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. Before then she was a specialist at Sotheby’s London.
Gara holds an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Art from the University of Glasgow. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Literary, Visual and Musical Thought at the European Graduate School.