An Iraqi-Dutch film director, born in 1978 in Baghdad, Iraq. He studied theatre directing in Baghdad and fled to The Netherlands in 1995, where he specialised as a cameraman. Later he graduated with two MAs in cinematography and directing in Leeds at The Northern Film School.
Born and raised in Algeria. She completed her studies in Pyschology and Drama in France. She has a passion for music, writing and cinema.
Independent filmmaker born in Jordan. Since 2002, Al Massad has divided his time between Jordan and The Netherlands to work on several projects including Shatter Hassan, and White Wall.
Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Tania worked as a producer, editor, and drama teacher before moving to the United States. She produced and directed documentary, narrative and experimental films, sometimes blending these styles together.
An award-winning Jordanian-Palestinian producer and founder of the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative and the Jordan Short Film Festival. In 2007 the Institut Français du Proche-Orient selected Bitar as one of Jordan’s leading cultural influences.
She is a Palestinian who was raised in Abu Dhabi and Amman. She received an MA in media studies at the New School for Social Research in New York, and worked as a filmmaker and youth educator.
Born in 1979 and raised in Beirut. He graduated from the Mel Oppenheim School of Cinema and worked at the National Film Board of Canada and the CBC newsroom.
She is a Lebanese filmmaker of Palestinian origin. She studied in Montreal, Canada, and is currently living in Beirut, Lebanon. She worked for a television station for eight years as an editor and director. In 2000, she founded her own production house, Forward Film Production. Her work focuses on socio-economic issues such as migrant workers, refugees, environmental issues and child labor.
He was born in Basra, Iraq and migrated to Australia in 2003. In 2010 he graduated from a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication at the University of Technology Sydney and now works as a freelance visual communicator, producing short and feature films.
She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain.
Born in Blida, Algeria in 1973. He has directed several documentaries, Garagouz is his first fiction film.
Graduated from film school at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design (SIAD) in Farnham, UK. He has produced and directed several short films both in the UK and in Morocco.
He is an actor and a film director, who was born in Abu Dhabi (UAE) in 1977. He started acting at seven, and at the age of 19 he moved to California (USA) to study the arts of cinema.
She is a graduate of Dubai Women’s College and Ryerson University in Canada, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film. Nayla is the founder and managing director of D-SEVEN Motion Pictures, a Dubai-based production company, which produces commercial material and has plans for independent documentaries and feature films.
Born in Abu Dhabi in 1976. He studied at the University of Denver, completing a degree in Mass Communications.
Born in Egypt and moved to the US in 1990 to attend film school at Columbia College, Chicago. His first short film The Interrogation (2002) won Best Creative Short Film at the New York Film Festival.
She has worked in production and development on various feature documentaries, commercials, feature films and shorts.
Born and raised throughout the Arabian-Persian Gulf by a Canadian mother and Syrian father, Amar Chebib began experimenting with filmmaking during his adolescence. He completed a film internship with Oneira Pictures International in 2005 and the film production program at the Vancouver Film School in 2006.
She is a writer/director who has written and directed short films, music videos, dance videos and a live-action stereoscopic 3D film, widely screened at festivals and exhibitions.
Born and raised in Beirut and studied at the Lebanese American University and the University of Southern California. She has worked as a freelance editor in the United States and in Europe before focusing on writing and directing her own projects.
Hachem graduated from the National School Louis Lumière, in Paris, and also studied drama at the Lebanese University. He has created and directed several short films in acting workshops that he has coached since 1992 in Paris and Beirut.
He graduated with a Bachelor of the High Institute of Cinema, Editing Department 1996. He was awarded best Director in Africa 2009, Khouribga Prize. The Cry of an Ant is his eighth film.
@arabfilmfestau @lisafgeorge yep! When are tickets on sale... I'm coming with friends. x @arabfilmfestau
Thanks habibi ... Will check it out. Hey when is the festival opening for 2012?
