Elhum Shakerifar is a documentary film producer whose anthropology background informs her approach to film.

Elhum is currently producing feature documentary The Runner by Saeed Taji Farouky, an international co-production about a long distance runner from the Western Sahara, which is endorsed by the Irish Film Board and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, due to be released in 2012 to coincide with the London Olympics. 

Producing aside, Elhum is co-Founder and co-Director, with Ed Owles and Jaime Taylor, of award-winning collective Postcode Films, who work with schools, colleges, universities and community groups to facilitate film projects that promote active citizenship and social inclusion. As such, she teaches practical documentary filmmaking on a regular basis, most recently at UCL, UEA and The Free University of Berlin. Postcode’s work was most recently screened at the London Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

Elhum is a research fellow of the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths University with extensive experience of working with young refugees and running participatory projects.