Insaf Machta is a French literature and Cinema Professor at the University of Tunis. She started writing about cinema in the 1990s in the magazine "CinEcrits", where she also was a member of the editorial board. Her most recent texts have been published on Nachaz-Dissonnances, Nawaat and Archipels Images websites. She is a founding member and President of the Sentiers-Massarib Association, which works to spread cinematographic culture in the working-class neighbourhoods of Grand Tunis by organizing screenings and workshops on reading, critique and producing images with three different age groups: children, teenagers and young adults.