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Looking for Essam Abdullah
After being captivated by a song he heard as a child in the 80s, filmmaker Yasser Naeim embarks on a decade long journey to find out the story of the songwriter, Essam Abdullah. Following in the footsteps of Abdullah became the key to start unlocking this era and a way for the director and his crew to retrace and revive their own memories, to know what happened exactly in those days that have been a very significant point in Egypt’s modern history.
Feature Documentary, Egypt
Status: In Post-Production
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About The Director
Yasser Naeim graduated in 1998 with a B.Sc of Commerce, but the desire to continue down the traditional career path was eclipsed by his passion for storytelling. After enrolling in an Art Lab for Cinema Directing at the American University in Cairo, Naeim worked as an assistant director, production manager and later as a director for several AlJazeera documentaries. In 2010 he directed the documentary “Improvisation” while moonshining as a scriptwriter for a local TV series and co-writing Ibrahim El Batout’s “Winter of Discontent”, screened at the Venice Int. Film Festival in 2012.
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