Ossama Fawzi

Jury Member

Born in Cairo in 1961, Osama Fawzi studied film making at the Higher Institute of Cinema of Cairo. In 1996, he directed his first feature film The Asphalt Kings (Afareet Al-Asfalt) which acquired him a lot of recognition in various local and international festivals and received many awards including the best film award from a Special Jury Committee, in Locarno Film Festival 1996. His next film was Fallen Angels Paradise (Gannet El-Shayateen) in the year 2000, which made him stand out as an innovator in the Egyptian movie industry and brought him, also, international recognition throughout various festivals. His film I love Cinema (Baheb El- Cima)in 2004, has been subject to controversy among critics and the Egyptian Coptic minority, which won him a few awards as well. In 2009 Osama Fawzi was involved in a JSC (Al-Jazeera children) special film production and in the year 2010 he directed his most recent film In Natural Colors.

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