The Golden Harvest

Alia Yunis, director/producer, has worked on film, photography and writing projects in many parts of the world. Alia thinks about trees a lot, and is currently producing an interactive documentary entitled Tree Routed and completing a script about a Muslim girls obsessed with Christmas trees. Alia spent many years in Los Angeles as a screenwriter and script analyst for companies such as Village Roadshow Pictures, Miramax and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science. She is a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow and the recipient of a comedy-writing award from Warner Bros. Her novel, The Night Counter (Random House), was critically-acclaimed by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications. She has produced several short films, as well as the feature documentary, Man Hunt (2003), which played on the Oxygen Channel as a Valentine’s Day special. Her fiction and nonfiction work has been translated into eight languages.