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Born in Iraq, she was educated in Iraq, the USA and Britain. She studied Philosophy at University College London and Film at the Slade School of Art. For many years she worked as a film editor on TV documentaries and dramas such as The Flame Trees of Thika, Widows, Minder and Fairly Secret Army. She also edited Canadian-UK co-produced feature film Painted Angels. Pachachi has taught film and video directing and editing in Jerusalem and Gaza for the Jerusalem Film Institute and Med Media, a program of the European Union and at Birzeit University in Ramallah.
She produced and edited the Channel Four (UK) documentary Voices from Gaza (Red Ribbon Award, American Film and Video Festival, San Francisco).
Her most recent film, which she co-directed, produced and edited is Bitter Water, a feature-length documentary about four generations of refugees in a Palestinian camp in Beirut.
Return to the Land of Wonders, 2004. Official Selection, Cardiff International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, New Mexico Middle East Film Festival , United Nations Youth Summit in Washington D.C.
Iranian Journey, 2000. First Prize, Kalamata International Documentary Festival, 2000
Iraqi Women, Voices from Exile, 1994
Painted Angels, 1998
Minder, 1979 (TV Series)
Synopsis: In Iranian Journey Maysoon Pachachi joins Massoumeh Soltan Baloghie, the first woman long-distance bus driver in Iran. On the 22 hour journey from Tehran to Bandar Abbas, Pachachi uncovers an Iranian life that few ever see.