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Bio

🇪🇬 Egyptian Film Producer/ Director/ Video Artist

🏆Palme d'Or Winner🏆as a producer for the short Egyptian film:
“I am afraid to forget your face/ ستاشر “ in Festival De Cannes – Short Film Competition (2020) 🇫🇷

This Palme d’Or
award marks the 1st Palme d'Or award for Egypt in the festival history


Other Awards:

- Robert Bosch Stiftung Development Award for the short Egyptian film “How the Sea
Became Salty” Directed by Maysoon ElMassry - 2021
- Special Jury Award in 9th MADATAC video in Madrid – Video name: “The Caller” - Spain –
2018
- Best Director in 3rd edition of Zawya film festival - "From the remains of the Dead" – Cairo -
2018


Previous Film Experience:

- EAVE on DEMAND workshop for feature fiction films development as a producer in which
was held during the 40th and the 41st edition of CIFF (Cairo International Film Festival) in
Egypt for two years consecutively (2018,2019)
- Cairo Film Connection Platform Pitching sessions in the 41st edition of CIFF (Cairo
International Film Festival) for the documentary feature film “The Life and Times of Omar
Sharif” – (2019)
- Talents Berlin (2019): Berlinale Talents program in the 69th Berlin film festival in Germany.
He participated as Director/Producer and the only Egyptian participant in the program for 2019
- Talents Beirut (2017): Selected in the editing talents group in Talents Beirut which is a side
project from Talents Berlin. (Berlin Film Festival)
- (TFL) Torino Film Lab Meeting Event (2016): Selected in TFL meeting event to attend pitching
of selected film projects and vote for the audience award


Teaching Experience:

January 2021
Online Film Production workshop and the role of the film producer with SYNC Community
March 2021
Film Production workshop with Jesuit Luxor Film School in Luxor
April 2021

April - June 2021
Film production Workshop with Medrar for Contemporary Art, co-presented with the Lebanese
film director Ghassan Salhab
November - Dec 2021
Film Production workshop with Jesuit Cairo Animation Film School in Cairo