Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival inaugurates Onsi Abou Seif retrospective exhibition

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Angy Essam

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Sat, 24 Oct 2020 - 02:02 GMT

BY

Angy Essam

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 - 02:02 GMT

File: Glimpses from Onsi Abou Seif exhibition.

File: Glimpses from Onsi Abou Seif exhibition.

 


CAIRO – 24 October 2020: Among the list of surprises of this year is a special exhibition dedicated to the coveted production designer Onsi Abou Seif.

The fourth edition of El Gouna Film Festival inaugurated Onsi Abou Seif retrospective exhibition on October 24.

From Daoud Abdel Sayed to Youssef Chahine to Yousry Nasrallah, there’s no shortage of legends that have collaborated with the celebrated production designer Onsi Abou Seif.

 

The fourth edition of GFF is commemorating the icon’s work in a retrospective exhibition at TUB, Campus; celebrating the intricate sets, designs and creations he’s done throughout the past five decades.

Famed filmmaker Said Taghmaoui , recipient of this year Omar Al Sherif Award, dropped by for a walkthrough of the exhibition, along with GFF’S COO Bushra Ahmed and GFF’s Intishal el Tamimi and a host of intrigued audiences and fans of the superstar designer all dropped by for a special walkthrough during the exhibition’s opening. The exhibition will be running in TUB campus until October 30.

 

Onsi Abou Seif recieved this year Career Acheivments Award from the fourth edition of El Gouna Film Festival.

“I am really speechless, I know how to draw more than how to talk” said Abou Seif in his speech after receiving the award.

Abou Seif thanked GFF management for this award which is dedicated to cinema kitchen as he described it.

” I dedicate this award to my mentor and professor Shady Abdel Salam” Abou Seif added.

Abou Seif was graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in 1967, and worked in his early days on the movies “Diary of a Country Prosecutor” by celebrated director Tewfik Saleh, and “The Mummy” (1969) by Shadi Abdel Salam.
 
Throughout his career, Abou Seif proved—time and time again—that set design is one of the most important and decisive elements of filmmaking.
 
The first award granted to him under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture was for the movie Illusions of Love (1970).
 
He moved on to receive numerous awards from the Ministry for his work on “Alexandria: Again and Again” (1989), “Kit Kat” (1991), and “The Thief of Joy” (1995), among others.
 
Onsi Abou Seif designed special scenes for the Hollywood movie “Malcolm X” (1992), and frequently collaborated with his friend Daoud Abdel Sayed, acclaimed Egyptian director.
 
Abou Seif is known for designing hyper-realistic set décor, most significantly for the television series “Critical Moments” (2007), and the film “The Traveller” (2009).
 
His most memorable works include “Love in Jail” (1983), “Kit Kat” (1991), “Land of Dreams” (1993), “The Other” (1999), “Land of Fear” (2000), “The Days of Sadat” (2001), “A Citizen, a Detective, and a Thief” (2001),” Halim” (2006), and “Messages from the Sea” (2010).

 

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