Anissa Daoud
Anissa Daoud () is a Franco-Tunisian actress, author and producer. Living between Paris and Tunis, she is part of the art collective Artists Producers Associates (APA). Career. Anissa Daoud grew up in Tunisia, of Tunisian parents. Self-taught, her acting career started in cinema with leading roles in "She and He" () by Elyes Baccar, "Thalathun" by Fadhel Jaziri, The Long Night by Syrian director Hatem Ali or "La Tendresse Du Loup" by Jilani Saadi, for which she has received many awards. At the Theatre, she took part, as an actress and staging assistant, in the productions of director  Mohamed Guellati in France, Africa or Palestine (the Freedom Theatre in Jenin) for several years. She also worked under the direction of Franco-Comoran choreographer . In 2010, she got back to her Italian roots in Naples interpreting, in Italian, the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet directed by Alexander Zeldin for the Napoli Teatro Festival. Since 2009, Anissa has joined director Lotfi Achour as co-playwright and actress on the musical and theatrical shows "Hobb Story, Sex in The Arab City" and "Macbeth: Leila and Ben has Bloody History", created for the 2012 London Olympics. Together they founded the  APA : Artists Producers Associated, and through it, she has been producing various shows and movies, some of which were in official competitions at top festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Dubai, Cannes or the Venice Film Festival. More recently she has played the female lead role in "Jeunesse Tunsienne- Tunisian Spring" by Raja Amari and produced by Arte, winning the Best Actress Award In Durban International Film Festival - South Africa, and in "Les Frontières du Ciel" by Fares Naanaa for which she has also received the Best Actress award at the Rencontre des Réalisateurs Tunisiens. In 2016 she is one of  main characters, the co-writer and co-producer of the first feature of Lotfi Achour ""Demain dès l'Aube"".