CAIRO - 21 June 2021:Aswan International Women Film Festival and Gemini Africa launched CinemaTech sessions and workshops this month.
The sessions and workshops mentors were:
Ramy Rizkallah - Director, Producer, Scriptwriter.
Haitham Khalil - CEO & Co-founder, Bingbong Studio.
Amr Sokkar - Scriptwriter and Co-founder, Bing Bong Studio.
Ahmed Saad - Scriptwriter and Co-founder, Bing Bong Studio.
Mohamed Abdelkhalek - President of #AIWFF, Scriptwriter.
Ashraf Mahdy - Actor and Head of Media Arts Department at PUA.
Youssef Hesham - Filmmaker, Regional Programmer at Cairo International Film Festival
Safi Eldin Mahmoud - Producer
Farah Abdelkader - Senior Programs Specialist, Gemini Africa.
Karim El Gezairy - Project Management Specialist, Gemini Africa.
Ahmed Khalifa - CEO & Founder, Iprotect-Mena.
Aswan International Women Film Festival revealed the names of Egyptian Film Competition jury members.
The jury members are Egyptian Actor and Director Ahmed Magdy, Tunisian Actress Dorra Zarrouk and Egyptian Producer Hesham Soliman.
The 5th edition of AIWFF announced as well the names of its Jury members for the Euro-Mediterranean Film Competition sponsored by the European Union in Egypt in collaboration with EUNIC Egypt.
The jury head is Palestinian director and writer Najwa Najjar, Moroccan reporter and Casablanca Film Festival Director Fatma El Nawaly, Egyptian Actor Sherif Ramzy and Egyptian Director and Producer Sherif Mandour.
The festival also announced that its Jury for the Short Film International Competition will house Egyptian star Hana Shiha, Greek Director Ioana Kriona and Syrian-Dutch Artistic Director of the Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam Rosh Abdelfatah.
The festival decided to honor the iconic French actress Macha Méril at its opening ceremony that will take place on June 24-29 in Aswan, Egypt.
Born in Rabat, Morocco to a father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and mother from a noble Ukranian family, her career in cinema has included 125 films between 1959 and 2012.
Actress and director, she is best known for her roles in Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975), Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967) and Agnès Varda’s Vagabond (1985).
The fifth edition of AIWFF5 is sponsored by"Ghalya" initiative by ALEXBANK which is the festival Strategic Handicrafts Partner.
“Ghalya” by ALEXBANK is a platform for multiple initiatives that aim to empower women in the fields of Education, Employment, Economic Empowerment, and Health and Wellbeing.
Launched in the first Women Economic Forum Egypt in March 2020, “Ghalya” is set to put ALEXBANK’s female employees as well as women across Egypt at the center of its sustainable growth and value creation cycle.
“Ghalya” by ALEXBANK is also the strategic partner to Egypt’s National Council for Women's nation-wide initiative ‘Taa Marbouta’ empowering Egyptian women in the local workforce.
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