Omar Shargawi was raised by a Danish mother and Palestinian father in Copenhagen. His first directorial feature, "Go in Peace, Jamil" (2008), won several film fest awards (at Rotterdam, Gothenburg, Warsaw). Shargawi's 2010 "My Father from Haifa" (2010), a personal documentary, won the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize and the people’s choice award at Dubai, and the Film Academy of Denmark’s Robert award. Karim El Hakim, an Egyptian American director and director of photography, has contributed to several award-winning docs, including "My Trip to Al Qaeda" (2010), "Giran (Neighbors)" (2009), and "Egypt We Are Watching You" (2008). Based in Cairo, his short films include "Ein Semeka (Fisheye)," "Miraculum," and "Beit Min Lahm (House of Flesh)," which won the Egyptian State Prize for best cinematography in 2006. Of being an documentarian and cinematographer, El Hakim says;...
- 1/15/2012
- Indiewire
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