Ahmed Rashwan
| Ahmed Rashwan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 23, 1969 Alexandria, Egypt |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Years active | 1990 - present |
| Website | http://www.dreamprodeg.com |
Ahmed Rashwan (Arabic: احمد رشوان; born 1969, is an Egyptian film director, screenplay writer, and a film producer. His filmography includes a list of short, documentaries, and one long-feature film. Since his graduation from the Cairo Film Institute in 1994, he worked on promoting the Independent Cinema wave in Egypt, as an alternative path to overcome the sway of the mass marketed film production.
Early life
Rashwan was born October 23, 1969, in Alexandria, Egypt belonged to an Egyptian family, He Began his passion for cinema since childhood. Began his activities in cinema clubs since he was a student in high school, and then issued a film magazine with his friends from film enthusiasts in Alexandria. In 1987, He joined the Faculty of Law and graduated in 1990. And then moved to Cairo and studied Cinema in Cairo Film Institute and graduated in 1994, he made a short film called “Zamzam” as his graduation film project.
Short films
Rashwan made 5 short films,
- “ Habib's Birthday”Short fiction/video/1 4mins/1 (1993),
- “ Farah Dreams” short fiction, 20 min. 1994 Video ( Beta cam)(1994),
- “ Zamzam” Short fiction/35mm/l2mins/1 (1994),
- “ Cross Roads” (1995),
- “The Morning After” (2002).
- Cross Roads Short fiction, 8 min. . 1995 35mm
- Musafa Khana Documentary/l6mm/9 mins/1 993
- Without Make-up (written and directed by Hossam Nour EI-Deen) Short fiction/ video/ 19 min / 2003
Documentaries
Rashwan made 20 documentaries, starting with “ Musafir Khana” ( 1993), also he worked as director and executive producer for many documentaries produced by Aljazeera Channel.
Basra
After 5 years of searching about producer, Rashwan decided to filming his first feature film “Basra” (2008)[1] and produced it as well as Egyptian Independent film. Then he met the producer Haitham Hakki who enthused to complete the production of the film, and made the blow up for it from HD format to 35mm format . “ Basra” had a lot of successes in the festivals, screened in 12 festivals and got 6 awards and 1 mention .
Festivals
- " BASRA" Mostra de Valencia Film Festival - Spain- October 08
- " BASRA" Sao Paulo International Film Festival - Brazil - October08
- " BASRA" Cairo International Film Festival - Arab Competition - November 08
- " BASRA" Pan African Film Festival (FESPACO) - Burkina Faso - March 09
- " BASRA" Cape winlands International Film Festival-South Africa-March 09
- " BASRA" Sousse International Film Festival - Tunisia - March 09
- " BASRA" 15th National Film Festival - Cairo - Egypt - April 09
- " BASRA" Arab Film Festival- Rotterdam - Holland - June 09
- " BASRA" Beirut International Film Festival - Lebanon October 09
- " BASRA" Arab film Festival - San Francisco - USA- October 09
- " BASRA" Arab Film Festival - Brussels - Belgium - November 09
Awards
- Special jury award for my film " Inside People" From The National Film Festival 1999,
- the script of (BASRA) has been awarded a prize at the scriptwriting workshop competition – Alexandria Film Festival 2003,
- the script of (BASRA)also has been awarded a grant from Global Film Initiative- USA. 2007.
- " BASRA" awarded best cinematography ( Victor Credi) : Mostra de Valencia Film Festival – Spain- October 2008
- " BASRA" awarded Best Screenplay, Arab Competition, Cairo International Film Festival ( Shared with Palestinian film " Laila's Birthday ") November 2008
- " BASRA" awarded Best Director (for first Film) in 15th National Film Festival – Cairo - Egypt – April 2009
- " BASRA" awarded 3rd production award in 15th National Film Festival – Cairo - Egypt – April 2009
- " BASRA" awarded Best Actor ( Basem Samra) - Arab Film Festival- Rotterdam – June 9
- " BASRA" awarded Special mention – supporting actress ( Fatma Adel ) - Arab Film Festival- Rotterdam – June 9
- " BASRA" awarded Jury award for Best long film – Arab Film Festival – Brussels – November 2009