Yaara Bou Melhem
Director / Producer
Yaara Bou Melhem is an award-winning Australian writer, director and producer known for her powerful social justice documentaries. Her debut feature, Unseen Skies (2021), explored surveillance and artificial intelligence and screened at major international festivals. She also wrote, directed and co-produced The Whiteley Art Scandal (2023) for the ABC.
Her acclaimed short films cover topics ranging from the creation of a secular democracy in war-torn Syria to Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa’s fight against disinformation. A former investigative journalist with SBS Dateline and Al Jazeera English, Bou Melhem has received two UN Media Peace Awards and five Walkley Awards. Yurlu | Country is her second feature.
