The documentary Eat Your Catfish, co-directed by filmmaker Senem Tüzen, lecturer on the Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona, has received an Emmy Award in the Best Documentary on Social Issues category.

Tüzen received the prestigious award, along with her colleagues —documentary directors Adam Isenberg and Noah Amir Arjomand— at the 45th News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony, held at the Palladium Times Square in Manhattan (New York) on 26 September. At the ceremony, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences recognises excellence in American news and documentary programming each year for its artistic or technical merit.

Eat Your Catfish, since its world premiere at the 2021 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, where it received a nomination for Best Documentary, has been awarded and recognised at different festivals around the world, such as the Istanbul International Film Festival, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California, or the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.

The lecturer Tüzen teaches the Audiovisual Industry Management module of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at the Faculty of Humanities at UIC Barcelona and is a film director, producer and screenwriter. Tüzen’s work has been recognised in other international festivals with films such as Motherland (2015), Milk and Chocolate (2008) and Rats (2005).