Sally El Hosaini
Sally El Hosaini is an Egyptian Welsh screenwriter & film director. She was one of Screen International's UK Stars of Tomorrow 2009.
Filmography
- My Brother the Devil (screenwriter/director) 2012
- Camelia (screenwriter) 2011
- Henna Night (screenwriter/director) 2009
- The Fifth Bowl (screenwriter/director) 2008
Career
- Her first feature, My Brother The Devil is in competition at the Sundance Festival 2012. It was developed through the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and Sundance Director's Lab.
- Henna Night, is distributed by Peccadillo Pictures and was officially selected for London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, in competition at Rotterdam Film Festival and Raindance and screened at the ICA and Bafta.
- She won a regional BAFTA for her short film, The Fifth Bowl (2008).
- El Hosaini began her film-making career in Middle East documentaries and then moved to independent feature films where she was a production coordinator. She was the script editor/specialist researcher of the BAFTA & EMMY winning HBO Films/BBC Drama mini-series House of Saddam that took 21⁄2 years to research and write. The series won a Grierson Award for best drama.
Background
El Hosaini was born in Swansea, Wales of Egyptian Welsh parentage, and raised in Cairo, Egypt.[1] She had her first story published when she was seven years old.
El Hosaini attended the renowned Atlantic College one of the United World Colleges. She went on to read Arabic with Middle Eastern Studies at Durham University. Before making films she taught English Literature at a girls school in Sana'a, Yemen and worked for Amnesty International.
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