Born in Dubai, Mahdi Fleifel lives and works between Denmark, England and Greece. A graduate of the UK's National Film & Television School, he studied Fiction Directing under Stephen Frears and Pawel Pawlikowski. In 2010 he founded the London based production company Nakba FilmWorks with Irish producer Patrick Campbell. Fleifel's critically acclaimed debut feature, A WORLD NOT OURS, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received over 30 awards, including the Berlinale Peace Prize, and the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes. He was named Best New Nordic Voice at Nordisk Panorama, and received the New Talent Award at CPH:DOX in 2013. In 2016 Fleifel won a Silver Bear for A MAN RETURNED. His follow up, A DROWNING MAN, was selected in the Official Competition at Cannes, and was nominated for a BAFTA. His last film, I SIGNED THE PETITION, won Best Documentary Short at IDFA and was nominated for the 2018 European Film Awards.

Born and raised in Dublin, Patrick has been working in film since moving to London in 2007. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents and the Binger Film Lab as well as a BAFTA nominee. In 2010 Campbell and director Mahdi Fleifel formed the production company Nakba FilmWorks to produce feature documentary A World Not Ours which went on to screen at over 100 festivals worldwide, collecting over 30 awards including the Yamagata Grand Prix and the Berlinale Peace Prize. Their 2016 short documentary, A Man Returned, had its international premiere at the 2016 Berlinale where it won the Silver Bear and their short film, A Drowning Man, premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2018. Patrick has also engaged in collaborations with other directors including with his brother Duncan Campbell to produce The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy in 2016 and Brynoy Dunne in 2018 to produce Above The Law.