Biography: Mounia Akl is a Lebanese Director and Writer living between Beirut and New York. Mounia holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from ALBA, Lebanon and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University, New York. Apart from her Directing work, Mounia has taught film Directing at the Northwestern University, Chicago and taught a screenwriting Lab at Columbia University where she also was the TA of Richard Peña. Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021) is her first feature film.