Category: Directors-2017

She is an award-winning Israeli filmmaker and journalist. She is the former Israel/Palestine correspondent for The Real News Network (TRNN) where she produced short, documentary-style reports exploring the context behind the news.

Sahraa Karimi is a young female Afghan filmmaker who grew up in Iran. In her early twenties, she migrated to Slovakia, and spent the next 12 years studying for Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate degrees in film and directing. When she returned to Afghanistan, Karimi co-founded the Kapila Multimedia House to promote independent cinema and has recently re-opened the Kaluch Kapila Cinema. Karimi continues to live between Kabul, Bratislava, and Tehran. Her films, mostly about civil rights issues faced by women in Afghanistan, have won international awards and are frequently screened in international film festivals.

Education: 1988-1999 Maktab Zeinab – Kabul /Afganistan/, grammar school, major mathematics, physics, Teheran /Iran/. 1999-2001 Shahid Chamran University/Iran/, Polytechnic faculty – major engineering. 2004-2009 The Academy of Music and Performing Arts (VŠMU), major: documentary. Courses: 1997-2000 course of camera – Institute of Arts – Baqhe Ferdous – Teheran /Iran/. 1999-2000 creative writing course – Institute of Arts – Baqhe Ferdous – Teheran /Iran/. Work experience: 1998-2001 Arqavan atelier – cameraman, Teheran /Iran/. 1999-2001 lecturing in mathematics and physics, Teheran /Iran/. 1999 „Daughter of the Sun “ / Mariam Shahriar/ – main role. 1999 „Shooting in the dark“ /short film, directed by: Najib Ahmadi/ – Assistant Director. 2000 „White Dream“ /film, directed by: Hamid Jebeli/ – main role. 2000 „The History of Sorrow“ /documentary on Afghanistan – 10 episodes/ – TV Iran 1 – First
Assistant Scriptwriter. 2002 „Who is Sahraa?“ /documentary, directed by: Martin Hossein Fazeli/ – main role. 2003 „At School with Foreigners“ /short documentary – director/. 2003 „Gabo“ /short documentary/ – director. 2004 „ Searching for a Dream“ / documentary/ – director. 2005 „ Light and Dark “ / short film / – director. 2005 „Behold Alone Women at the Beginning of a Cold Season” /short documentary/ – director. 2006 „A Simple Question“ – film survey, documentary – director.

He was born in Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan-Iraq and graduated

1992 I Graduated in Institute of Fine Arts – Theater Department.

2008 I Graduated in University of sulaimaniya – Language and literature of English Department.

from 1988 to 1992 I participated in most of the plays in theatre as an actor and as a director

1997 I directed the play “Happy days” by Samuel Bekeet.

I directed documentary film “Tired”

I directed documentary film “Darwesh”

I was a member of the jury in the second Festival violence against women”

I directed Short film “White and Black”

2012 feature film (Leave to stay) directed by Awat osman

As a first assistance director

2012 I’ve written the script under the title 9:00 PM

2013 I was a member of the jury at the youth festival of the year in the field of cinema

2013 I’ve written the script under the title SHILANA , Now, this film is at the stage of preparation for filming, directed by Awat Osman

2013 I’ve written the script under the title first story

2014 I directed Short film ” first story ”

First story participated of competition section in many international film festivals , and it’s got best film award in Kolkata international film festival in India, and participated in short film corner in festival de Cannes 2015

2015 I’ve written the script under the title Pearl Island

2016 I directed Short film ” Pearl Island ”

Pearl island  participated of competition section in many international film festivals , and it’s got best screenplay award in  Buddha international film festival in India , and got best film award in Eurasia international film festival in Russia , Pearl Island also got best screenplay award in 12 months international film festival in Romania, and participated in short film corner in festival de Cannes 2017

I am an employee in the Directorate of Film in Sulaymaniyah

e-mail : danakarim73@yahoo.com mobile: 009647701203738

my Account in IMDB www.imdb.com dana karim

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French & Colombian, Thomas is director and photographer. He is involved in documentary works, particularly about South America urbanisation, using both photographs, videos and paper editing to construct his works. He recently received the Young Creation Award 2017 by the Art Center Le Pavillon Blanc of Colomiers, France. He is living in Medellin, Colombia and France.

Moved to Canada in 1991 and graduated from the Vancouver Film School (2D Animation) in 1996. He worked with mercury film works, on TV shows and movies for years. He is a painter as well. Moved to Penticton in 2015, and now he is a full time artist living and making art in Penticton.

Samara Sallam (b. 1991) is Palestinian Syrian, who currently lives in Odense, where she is a student at Funen Art Academy.

She studied journalism at Damascus University, and worked as a conceptual photographer and journalist until she moved to Algeria 2012, where she studied Fine Art at The Superior School of Fine Arts in Algiers.

Sallam has been awarded two first prizes in photography from France in 2012 and Belgium 2013.

• Seven Cities, One Labyrinth 2017
• Four and a half hours 2015

He is from Iran and studied theatre and film in Oslo, before making his first short film in 2001. His first feature film “Seahorses” was made in 2007 and it was screened at the Exile Film Festival.

2006 he went to the Iranian Youth Cinema Society, and after passing the film course, he began making short films including animation and documentary, such as “It is from us that is to us” (animation), “Birth in 120th Second”, “The Friend”, “Dance of the Earth” and the last one is “So Easy”.