Amel Alzakout, born in 1988 in Syria, is an artist and filmmaker based in Leipzig. Between 2010 and 2013 she studied journalism at Cairo University, Egypt, between 2017 and 2018 she studied art at the Weißensee Art Academy in Berlin, currently, she is studying media art at the Academy of Visual Art (HGB) in Leipzig. Purple Sea is her debut film. Previous work includes Backyard (2018, assistant director, 26′), Stranger’s Diaries (2019, with Khaled Abdulwahed, 8-channel video installation, 35′), Home Sweet Home (2020, with Khaled Abdulwahed,11′).