Irit Neidhardt (born 1969) is running mec film, an international distribution and sales company for films by Arab directors. She is co-producer of several documentary films and author of various articles on subjects related to cinema and the Arab World, focusing on issues of co-operation and financing. From 2014 till 2016 Irit Neidhardt was Honorary Fellow at the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter (UK) with a research on PLO-German cooperation in film-making. Since the mid-1990s she has been curating film programs related to Arab cinema or external views on the Arab world.