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Ahmed Rashwan

Ahmed Rashwan
Film director, Producer, Screenwriter
Principal country concerned : Column : Music, Theater, Cinema/tv, Dance

Nasceu na Alexandria, Egito, em 1969. Diretor, produtor, roteirista e diretor de produção da Dream Production - Egito. Formou-se em Direito na Universidade de Alexandria, em 1990, em produção e direção de cinema no Instituto de Cinema do Cairo, em 1994.
Trabalhou com diretor-assistente na realização dos filmes Shams el-Zanati, dirigido por Samir Saif, The Captain, dirigido por Sayed Said, Mr. Karate, Very hot day e The Days of Sadat, dirigidos por Mohamed Khan. Em 2002, escreveu um livro sobre o documentarista Samir Ouf, bem como um livro sobre o cinema árabe independente, em colaboração a Hossam Elouan. Escreveu e dirigiu curtas-metragens, documentários e séries para televisão.

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The Egyptian director Ahmed Rashwan has got a BA in law and a BA in cinema at the institute of films in Cairo.
He has written and directed more than twenty fiction documentaries and short film videos. As a producer, he has produced more than tens film. He has written two books, one on the documentary films director, Samir Ouf., and one on the independent Arabic cinema in collaboration with Hossam Elouan. He has also been a member of the jury at the international level of film festivals and has got many, prizes for his cinematographic production throughout the world.

Filmography:
As a director and scriptwriter:
- Musafir Khana, documentary, 16mm, 9min, 1993
- Habiba's Birthday, short narrative, video, 14min, 1993
- Zamzam, short narrative, 35mm, 12min, 1994
- Farah's Dreams, short narrative, video, 15min, 1994
- Cross Roads, short narrative, 35mm, 8min, 1995
- Homage for an Egyptian actor Mohamed Tawfik (The first national film festival, 3min, video, 1995
- Inside People, documentary, 35mm, 16min, 1998
- A Day Like Any Day, documentary, video, 23min, 2000
- Once I went to the garden, documentary, 35mm, 10min, 2000
- The Morning After, Short fiction, video, 16 min, 2002
- My Own Dance, experimental, video, 1min, 2002
- Law of Coincidence, experimental, documentary, video, 11min, 2003
- Beirut:Take 1, documentary, video, 16min, 2004

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