Five winners to attend Tayarah's workshop in El Gouna Festival

CAIRO- 16 September- 2017: El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) announced the five filmmakers who were chosen to attend Tayarah workshop on Saturday including Khaled Khella, Adam Abd El Ghaffar, Mohamed Gamal, Youssef Nasser and Seif El Deen Hazem.

Khaled Khella is an Egyptian actor, writer and director who were born in Cairo in 1992. Although He didn’t study in a film school, he decided to be self-taught through reading and watching movies. In 2012 he wrote, directed and acted in his first short debut ‘’ Life and Hereafter’’. Khella is concerned with humble and marginalized people.

Adam Abd El Ghaffar is a young Egyptian graphic designer. He made several exhibitions among them is ‘’ Affiche Plaisir showing a selection of film posters for famous Egyptian films. Seif El Deen Hazem is an Egyptian photographer who was born in January 1998, he worked previously in Cavando Mi Patata movie.

Sponsored by the Egyptian Culture Ministry and the Egyptian Tourism Authority, the GFF seeks to foster different cinematic voices and generate opportunities to further develop creativity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Emerging Arab and Egyptian filmmakers gear up to participate in the first anticipated edition of the GFF, which will run between September 22 and September 29 at El-Gouna, Hurghada.

Displaying an array of works from around the globe such as Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, France, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, the United States, Russia, India and Japan, the festival is promoting rising filmmakers and will include several competition categories: Feature Narrative, Feature Documentary, Short Films, “Official out of Competition” selection and Special Programs.

“Sheikh Jackson” will be the opening movie for the festival in its first edition. TaPFRmimi said, “We are proud that this special movie will be introduced in the opening ceremony because it will attract many movie producers, not only Arabs, but also foreigners who are interested in these kinds of movies.”