Bankstown Area Multicultural Network
Produced by Bankstown Area Multicultural Network Inc and created by young Muslim women from Western Sydney.
Filmmakers
IBRAHIM EL-BATOUT
Ibrahim El-Batout was born in Portsaid, Egypt. He graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1985, majoring in physics. El Batout’s infatuation with the camera started in the Video Cairo Production House. Later, he worked for a year at the British television station TV-Am, located in Cyprus.
BASHEER ALMAJID
Basheer Al Majed was an actor in the long feature Ahlaam, which he received a Best Actor award at the Festival of Carthage in Tunisia in 2006.
HANY ABU-ASSAD
Hany Abu-Assad directed his first film in 1998, The Fourteenth Chick from a script by writer Arnon Grunberg. Later films include the short Nazareth 2000 (2000) and the feature film Rana’s Wedding (2002).
SAMIR HABCHI
Samir Habchi, born in Lebanon in 1961. He completed a Master of Fine Art at the Institute of Theatre and Cinematography in Directing in the Ukraine, USSR. He returned to Lebanon to write, direct and produce feature films and television.
AMIN MATALQA
Amin Matalqa is a writer and director who grew up in Jordan dreaming of becoming a filmmaker although he has spent more than half of his life in Ohio where he attended school and college.
