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” (1993), “ Farah Dreams” (1994), “ Zamzam” (1994), “ Cross Roads” (1995), “The Morning After” (2002).

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 .

Awards

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