Authors:

• Dina Naser

  Dina hold a BA in Art and Graphic Design; following her passion for filmmaking, she was granted the scholarship for Docnomads mobile documentary school for a two year MA program in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels. She have worked her way through a variety of TV and film productions, until she began to independently direct and produce.

  Inspired by the stories she witnessed in the field, Dina began imagining what she wanted to capture through her own films. In 2011, she completed work on the documentary short “Shamieh”, which tells the story of an aging Palestinian woman living in Zizya refugee camp in Jordan.

  Thereafter, she began investigating the lives of Syrian refugee children, which materialized into the short 9 min documentary “Tiny Souls” and is currently in development into becoming her first feature documentary, which is now in post-production. “Tiny Souls” the 9 min went on to participate in several film festivals, including Euromed Audiovisual’s Made in MED film festival, where it won the audience choice award, and the Jordanian European Film Festival, where it won a Jury award for the best documentary short, among others. in 2015 she completed work on a short film entitled “One Minute” which tells the story of a woman living in Gaza when Gaza was under attack in 2014, the film was selected in many international film festivals Including, Female Eye Film Festival 2015, BBC Arabic Film Festival, PerSo-Perugia Social Film Festival (Audience Award) , 5th Malmo Arab Film Festival, Doclisboa 2015, Middle East: What Cinema Can Do , Boston Palestine Film Festival 2015, Haifa Independent film festival 2016,Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival 2016, Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival 2016, Festival Ciné-Palestine Paris 2016, Toronto Palestine Film Festival 2016, 10th Jordanian Short Film Competition organized in the framework of the Franco Arab Film Festival – Special mention 2016, 14TH Resistance International Film Festival 2016 IRAN, ARAB FILM festival Rotterdam 2016, Sun Bird Competition ( Days of Cinema) Palestine 2016, The 14th Festival of Mediterranean Short Film Tangier 2016, CEME DOC Mexico 2016, The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2017 , Arab film festival berlin and Cairo International Women’s film festival 2017.

  In 2016 she co-directed a short experimental “Sea Wash” tells the story of refugees who lost their lives in the sea, using symbolic elements of their personal belongings being washed onto the shore, the film was selected in shnit film festival, also was the opening film for the video art section in ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA film festival in Poland. The film was selected to participate in an exhibition "Europako Mugak/Fronteras de Europa" ,"Borders of Europe" in Spain/Bilbao June 2017.

  Sea Wash (2016)
  One Minute (2015)
  Tiny Souls (2012)
  Shamieh (2011)

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• Moeen Atef

  Moeen holds a Bachelors Degree in Mass Media and Communication, with major in Broadcasting. He started his journey producing TV content and independent short films after his film studies in Prague. 
  Moeen started a career as a freelance assistant producer then as a director with various broadcasting stations with a wide spectrum of content. Later on, he became a producer for popular TV shows and platforms such as Master Chef - Arabian version. Throughout his career, Moeen got into animated series productions as a Producer of kids animated series for Abu Dhabi media.
  Moeen gained a good track record in TV Productions from pre-production to post-production with leading names in Arab and International media like BBC, BLOMBERG AFRICA, CHANNEL 2 DENMARK AND ALSO CHANNEL 2 SWEEDEN. This has given him the opportunity to work with Bollywood film productions on filming in his homeland Egypt.
  After his long experience working from concept creation to final delivery within the industry on different platforms like TV shows, game shows, talk shows, animation, documentaries and TVC, Moeen felt that this is the time for him to create and produce his own concepts through video art and visual art with an eye to manipulate moving picture to explore different creative approaches. His first film as Co Director "sea wash" was qualified in shnit film festival and also was the opening film for the video art section in ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA film festival in Poland.
  The film was selected to participate in an exhibition "Europako Mugak/Fronteras de Europa”,"Borders of Europe" in Spain/Bilbao. With this exhibition, “5W” magazine and KCD-ONGD stop in the different borders of the Mediterranean that refugees must go through. It does this from the point of view of 5 photographers and 5 journalists that are located in five different coordinates.
  At the mean time, Moeen is working as a creative producer for a long documentary Tiny Souls that is in post-production phase now. Tiny Souls is a documentary film that was filmed for 4 years following 3 kids in Zaatari refuge camp in Jordan.

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