Hisham bizri asmahan biography
- Hisham Bizri (Arabic: هيشام البزري) is a film director, writer, and producer born in Beirut, Lebanon.
- Asmahan is a film poem about the famous Syrian singer of the same name.
- Hisham Bizri is a film director, writer, and producer born in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Hisham Bizri is a Lebanese-born American film director, writer, and producer. He started working in film as an assistant director to Raúl Ruiz in NYC and to Miklós Jancsó in Budapest.
Bizri has directed 29 short films and has written a number of screenplays adapted from Gilgamesh, Jorge Luis Borges, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Al-Tayyib Salih, and James Joyce. In 2021, he directed "Elektra," his first feature film which he also wrote and co-produced with Mirna Shbaro in Beirut.
Bizri studied filmmaking at Boston, Harvard, and Chicago and taught at MIT, NYU, the University of Chicago, UC Davis, Boston, and the University of Minnesota, as well as in Lebanon, Korea, Japan, Ireland, France, and Jordan where he founded a number of filmmaking programs. Most recently, he has served as a tenured Professor of Film Directing and Screenwriting at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Bizri's work has been shown in international venues including Sundance, Beirut, Oberhausen, Tribeca, VideoEx, Mizna, Montpelier, Athens, San Francisco, Pesaro, Moscow, Ismailia, 25FPS Croatia, Brussels Pal
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Hisham Bizri
American filmmaker
Hisham Bizri | |
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| Born | Beirut, Lebanon |
| Education | Boston University, Harvard University, New York University, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter, Curator, Professor |
| Awards | Bogliasco Fellowship, 2019 Rome Prize, 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007 |
Hisham Bizri (Arabic: هيشام البزري) is a film director, writer, and producer born in Beirut, Lebanon. Bizri began working in film in the US with filmmaker Raoul Ruiz. Bizri has directed over 25 shorts and one feature film. His industry experience includes work as Producer at Future TV (Beirut), Creative Director at Orbit Communications Company (Beirut), and President & Creative Director of Levantine Films (NYC). He previously taught at Brown University, the University of Minnesota, MIT, UC Davis, NYU, Boston University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and in Lebanon, Korea, Japan, Ireland, and Jordan. His students have gone on to study film at NYU, USC, AFI, UCLA, La Fémis (Paris) and FAMU (Prague).[1& About ArteEast: Hisham Bizri is a film director, writer, and producer born in Beirut, Lebanon. He started working in cinema as an assistant director to Raúl Ruiz in NYC and to Miklós Jancsó in Budapest. He has directed 29 short films and has written a number of screenplays adapted from Gilgamesh, Jorge Luis Borges, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Al-Tayyib Salih, and Jame
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Since its founding in 2003 as a NY-based film collective specializing in Middle Eastern film programming, ArteEast has become a leading organization advocating for and supporting artists from the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region engaging with U.S.-based arts communities and audiences. Through public programming, strategic partnerships, dynamic online publications, and film platforms, ArteEast serves as a bridge, facilitating the interaction of the public with, and amplifying the voices of, artists, curators, filmmakers, and arts thought leaders from the SWANA region and its diaspora.
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