Film & TV, Director of Development and Producer: from the idea, to the screen.
10 years of experience in Film & TV development, and 8 years as Head of the Department.
Cultivated and maintained strong network of creatives, and crew members in Spain, UK and the Arab world.
Development of feature films and TV series, among them: the Arab remake of the Spanish Goya Award winner for Best Film and box office hit ‘Campeones’. And Associated Producer of the latest feature by Spanish acclaimed director, Agustí Villaronga, a British-Spanish coproduction.
As independent producer she co-founded Laaventura.
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Hotait shares her passion for filmmaking and 10-year-production experiences teaching courses and workshops for: IE University (Spain), Makkers School (Madrid), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Intermediae (Madrid), The National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago) and Street-Level Youth Media (Chicago).
And as speaker and consultant for institutions such as: Universidad de Alcalá, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey-México, Hakaya Forums in Abu Dhabi, Bahrein, etc.
She holds a BA in Audiovisual Studies from Complutense University in Madrid and Waseda University, Tokyo. Upon graduating, she received a full fellowship from La Caixa Foundation to study at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she graduated with a MFA in Film, Video and New Media. She pursued a second Master in Audiovisual Management (MEGA) at the Media Business School as a Mohamed Farsi foundation grantee, from which she graduated with honors.
Hotait was a selected producer for the ACCESS production program in the Arab Mediterranean region, and a Berlinale Talent Producer, 2019.