Camilla Magid is born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1979. She studied Film and Media science at University of Copenhagen, Arab language and culture at the Royal Danish Defence Collage. From this platform she made her first award winning documentary The Black Lines (2006) shot in Aleppo, Syria. In 2007 Camilla became a member of the Danish Film Association SUPER16. She has since then made documentaries from Denmark, Australia, the Middle East and Africa, that has been broadcasted on national television and shown on festivals around the world.